Skype Comes to Linux in a Snap
Like some other Windows apps, their Linux equivalent say are either non existent, or run poorly due to lack of love from their authors. But that’s all slowly beginning to change, like our recent post […]
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Portainer: An easy to use gui to run and get docker containers
I met up with the team from Portainer.io in my home town of Wellington, New Zealand when they paid a visit to a Linux user group there. Their product is an awesome graphical, browser based docker […]
Your next Linux computer? A Samsung mobile phone
Yep, you can soon use a Samsung Mobile phone as a fully fledged Linux PC running Ubuntu. Sit it on the Samsung Dock, which is attached to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and et voila! […]
Official: Ubuntu 17.10 release date
Ubuntu Artful Aardvark Release – 17.10 The Ubuntu team have released the final beta of Ubuntu 17.10 including the Desktop, Server, and Cloud versions, as announced by the Ubuntu team on Friday. Codenamed “Artful Aardvark”, […]
Debian 9 ( Stretch ) is here. Finally!
Debian Stable is Stretching out Debian was my gamechanger for Linux. It is and always has been the motherload of Linux (in my humble opinion). Everything good in the world of Linux came from its […]
Your Raspberry Pi as a Zombie Bitcoin Harvesting Beast
But mommy, I just wanted to play with my Pi… Straight from the bowels of all things unholy on the Interwebs, it now turns out that some ‘so called’ malware is infecting a plethora of […]
Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora now in the Windows store!
Did you say Linux? In the Windows Store? Like, OMG! Did we just enter some weird hallucination, or parallel universe? Nope! Microsoft have announced that they continue their partnership with Ubuntu/Canonical. MS have now announced that they […]
Hello nftables, Goodbye iptables
Firewalling under Linux gets revamped. Yep, you read it right. The firewalling tool that has been either hated or loved, ever since Kernel 2.4 is being phased out from kernel v4.9 onwards in favour of […]
VIDEO: Twenty Five years of Linux in Five Minutes
If you’ve read Chapter 1 of the Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide, you’ll have a reasonable understanding of the underpinnings and history of Linux. However, what you may not know is that Linux is now a quarter-century […]
Shock news as Ubuntu ditches their Unity desktop
The ink was barely dry when the Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide wrapped up it’s review of Ubuntu 17.04, which saw us point out that the Unity desktop was surely in trouble, the preview of Unity […]