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The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide

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Your Raspberry Pi as a Zombie Bitcoin Harvesting Beast

June 11, 2017 Alistair Ross
Raspberry Pi Logo

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 […]

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Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora now in the Windows store!

May 20, 2017 Alistair Ross
Linux Multi-Distro in Windows

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 […]

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3 CommentsCommentaryApp Store, bash, developer, fedora, linux, microsoft, SuSE, ubuntu, windows, Windows Store, WSL

Hello nftables, Goodbye iptables

May 20, 2017May 20, 2017 Alistair Ross
netfilter

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 […]

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VIDEO: Twenty Five years of Linux in Five Minutes

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017 Alistair Ross
Twenty Five Years of Linux Video

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 […]

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Shock news as Ubuntu ditches their Unity desktop

April 9, 2017April 20, 2017 Alistair Ross
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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 […]

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Preview of Ubuntu Zesty Zapus 17.04: Paint drying version & how to upgrade

April 2, 2017April 20, 2017 Alistair Ross
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Let’s get it out of the way first, here are the new features that are just about to hit us from Canonical, with the latest version, Ubuntu 17.04, Zesty Zapus. The expected release date, Thursday April […]

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Solus OS: The desktop your girlfriend might like (Video Review)

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 Alistair Ross
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Yep, you read the title right! Solus is officially the desktop that you could sit in front of your significant other. She (or he) could probably pick it up, say “ooh, this looks nice”, and […]

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Hitman The Complete First Season for Linux and Mac now available

February 21, 2017 Alistair Ross
Hitman game for linux released

Hitman is the game that took the games market by storm. The complete first season, released on 31st Jan for PC. Usually Linux is left trailing far behind, or most commonly, not at all. This […]

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FOSS Force Best Desktop Linux Distro 2017

January 31, 2017February 1, 2017 Alistair Ross

Another year goes by and the ever present ‘This is the year of the Linux Desktop’, statement is true as ever in 2017 as it was in 2007. For the last few years, the FossForce […]

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Dispelling common Linux myths

July 23, 2013January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

A lot of people who are either trying out Linux for the first time, or are thinking about using Linux but haven’t yet taken the leap often hear some pretty crazy misconceptions about Linux. Some […]

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