The most ambitious Linux Mint yet is one of the best desktop distros ever made. Linux Mint is at a tipping point. Our interview with Clem and his team revealed their plan to move away from the GNOME back-end. They feel it’s been holding them back somewhat, and now that Cinnamon and MDM are feature [...]

Monit is a free open source tool used to manage and monitor processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a local or remote LINUX/UNIX systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Read more ….

Since the beginning the Linux desktop era, users and pundits have been asking when the year of the Linux desktop would be here. This past week saw three different answers to that question with the release of Linux Mint 15, Fedora 19 beta and the closing Ubuntu bug #1. Read more ….

Cinnamon 2.0 will be a completely independent desktop environment, Clement Lefebvre reveals to Linux User & Developer in an exclusive interview. He went on to indicate that most importantly, recent developments have caused the team to finally move to making the code base independent of GNOME, so basically, in [Cinnamon] 2.0 you won’t be running [...]

It’s official: Microsoft’s near-monopoly on personal computing is over. At least, so says Ubuntu founder (and space traveler) Mark Shuttleworth, who has declared Ubuntu’s infamous Bug #1 — titled “Microsoft has a majority market share” — closed. Actually, Shuttleworth’s ruling says much more about Canonical’s future focus on tablets, smartphones and the cloud than it [...]

I had to laugh at the notion that a Linux distribution operated by a multi-national for-profit company that’s pretty much wholly owned by a charismatic billionaire could ever be considered, by any stretch of the imagination, a community thing. Read more ….

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 15 ‘Olivia’. Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project. MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center. The login screen can now be [...]

Last year, I installed and wrote a review for Linux Mint 13 Maya, the MATE version. It had worked really well on my laptop so even when Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” was released, I still kept using Maya. But after a year, I think its the time for an upgrade, and on the same occasion [...]

Canonical’s founder is making controversial moves which are helping Microsoft’s PR. The Shuttleworth position can be summarised as follows:2004: come join me, we’ll beat an illegal monopoly together.2013: I’m friends with Microsoft now, never mind that monopoly. Read more ….

XAMPP is free and open-source web development bundle, it includes Apache HTTP web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python. OpenSSL, and many more web modules. XAMPP software bundle “distribution” easily provides all these web modules with a few commands. So, don’t bother installing Apache, MySQL, PHP …etc one by one. Read more ….

I found lots of people struggling to get catalyst driver work in Ubuntu 13.04. This issue has been persistent for some laptops, ever since Ubuntu 13.04 came out, specially for Intel, AMD dual graphics setup. For people, who have been looking at catalyst drivers ever since http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1930450 post was published, should not be that hard [...]

‘Let’s focus on our own excellence, not someone else’s product’. Ubuntu headman and part-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth has declared victory over Microsoft’s domination of the PC industry, noting that the competitive landscape today is far different from what it was when Ubuntu launched in 2004.… Read more ….

In this tutorial i will show you how to install local repository in Ubuntu 13.04 server in two methods. If you use external hdd then it will your portable repository. You can use it in multiple locations other than your LAN. Both are easy to install and configure, finally pick one of them for your [...]