PhotoFiltre LX is an attempt to produce a clone of PhotoFiltre the popular Windows graphics editor for Linux. PhotoFiltre LX is developed with C++, Gtkmm and uses Imagemagick to support its many features.

What’s new in PhotoFiltre LX

• MagicWand Tool.
• Cursors scale to the size of the brush/tool.
• Clone Stamp Tool.
• Blur Tool.
• Set Zoom level with menus options.
• Fullscreen Mode.
• Added Filters Wave, Solarize, Implode, Soften, Blur, Sharpen, Reinforce.

Install PhotoFiltre LX 1.0 Beta on Linux Mint 18 / Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64bit) :

Deluge is an open source and cross-platform torrent downloader application, a full featured BitTorrent client for GNU/Linux, BSD, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

It is entirely based on the ​libtorrent library

The application is based on the libtorrent library, which means that it inherits its features. On top of that, the core and graphical user interface are split in order to allow it to run as a daemon in background and enabling you to connect to it remotely.


What’s new in Deluge 1.3.13
Core:

• Increase RSA key size from 1024 to 2048 and use SHA256 digest.
• Fixed empty error message from certain trackers.
• Fixed torrent ending up displaying the wrong state.
• #1032: Force a torrent into Error state if the resume data is rejected.
• Workaround unwanted tracker announce when force rechecking paused torrent.
• #2703: Stop moving torrent files if target files exist to prevent unintended clobbering of data.
• #1330: Fixed the pausing and resuming of the Deluge session so torrents return to previous state.
• #2765: Add support for TLS SNI in httpdownloader.
• #2790: Ensure base32 magnet hash is uppercase to fix lowercase magnets uris.

Daemon:

• New command-line option to restict selected config key to read-only.
• Allow use of uppercase log level to match UIs.

UI:

• #2832: Fixed error with blank lines in auth file.

GtkUI:

• Fixed installing plugin from a non-ascii directory.
• Error’d torrents no longer display a progress percentage.
• #2753: Fixed the ‘Added’ column showing the wrong date.
• #2435: Prevent the user from changing tracker selection when editing trackers.
• Fixed showing the wrong connected status with hostname in the Connection Manager.
• #2754: Fixed the progress column to sort by progress and state correctly.
• #2696: Fixed incorrect Move Completed folder shown in Options tab.
• #2783: Sorting for name column is now case insensitive.
• #2795: Reduce height of Add Torrent Dialog to help with smaller screeen resoltuions.
• OSX: Fixed empty scrolling status (systray) menu.
• OSX: Fixed starting deluged from connection manager.
• #2093: Windows OS: Fixed opening non-ascii torrent files.
• #2855: Fixed adding UDP trackers to trackers dialog.

WebUI:

• #2782: Fixed HTTPS negotiating incorrect cipher.
• #2485: Fixed the broken Options context menu.
• #2705: Fixed the hostlist config file not being created.
• #2293: Fixed plugin’s js code not loading when using the WebUI plugin.

Console:

• Fixed adding non-ascii torrent in non-interactive mode.
• #2796: Add time_added to info sort keys.
• #2815: Fixed ‘add’ cmd path inconsistency on Windows.

OSX Packaging:

• Source .py files no longer included in Deluge.app.
• Windows OS Packaging:
• #2777: Updated MSVC SP1 check to latest release CLID.

Blocklist Plugin:

• #2729: Fixed plugin lockup with empty url.

Scheduler Plugin:

• Fixed corrupt plugin prefences page on OSX.
• Fixed error accidentally introduced in 1.3.12.

Notification Plugin:

• #2402: Fixed the popup to show the actual count of files finished.
• #2857: Fixed issue with SMTP port entry not updating in GTKUI.

AutoAdd? Plugin:

• Fixed watch dir not accepting uppercase file extension.

Extractor Plugin:

• Ignore the remaining rar part files to prevent spawning useless processes.
• #2785: Fixed only an empty folder when extracting rar files.

Execute Plugin:

• #2784: Windows OS: Escape ampersand in torrent args.

How to Install / Update Deluge 1.3.13  Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS via PPA :

Linux kernel 4.6.5 (Stable) was released, how to update / upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 maya, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 16.04, Elementary OS 0.4 Loki, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 16.04

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Features at a glance

Linux comes with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management. Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Changelog Kernel 4.6.5

Among the improvements, we can notice lots of updated drivers, in particular for things like ATA, crypto, EDAC, External Connector Class (extcon), general-purpose input/output (GPIO), GPU (mostly Nouveau, but also AMDGPU, AMDKFD, Powerplay, Atmel HLCDC, Intel i915, mgag200, and vmwgfx), HID, iiO, hwmon, InfiniBand, IOMMU, MTD, PCI, SCSI, TTY, USB, and Xen.

“I’m announcing the release of the 4.6.5 kernel. All users of the 4.6 kernel series must upgrade,” says Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.6.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.6.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”

Linux kernel 4.6.5 also adds various improvements to ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), MIPS, PowerPC (PPC), s390, and x86 hardware architectures, the Btrfs, CIFS, NFS, and OverlayFS filesystems, and updated networking and sound stacks with fixes for things like the IPv6 protocol support, mac80211 wireless framework, packet scheduler, SunRPC protocol, as well as Au88x0 and HDA Intel audio drivers.

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.6.5 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using Script :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.6.5 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.6.5

sudo chmod +x kernel-4.6.5

./kernel-4.6.5

After Download and installation kernel 4.6.5 is finished, you must reboot your ubuntu system to change boot latest kernel :

sudo reboot

Booting, and check your ubuntu kernel version

uname -a

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive. 

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.   

LXLE (Lubuntu Extra Life Extension) is an open source operating system based on the Lubuntu Linux distribution and using LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) as its main graphical desktop environment.

Based only on LTS (Long Term Support) releases of Lubuntu

The project is always derived from LTS versions of the Lubuntu Linux operating system, distributed as a Live DVD ISO image for 64-bit ardware platforms. They can be burned onto DVD discs or USB flash drives of 2GB or higher capacity.

It provides users with a standard boot menu from where they can easily start the live environment with default options or in safe graphics mode by forcing the VESA framebuffer, test the computer’s RAM for errors, boot an existing OS from the first disk, as well as to install the distribution without testing it (not recommended).



What’s new in LXLE 16.04.1

Key Features:

• Btrfs file system base
• Auto detect dual monitors
• Expose like window picker
• Lightweight app launcher
• i3lock screen with autoblur
• ‘Aero’ window snap feature
• Enhanced menu speed
• Assistive Technology apps
• Detailed startup splash
• Terminal based Weather app
• Mate & Mint app additions
• Condensed ‘Control Menu’
• 100 brand new wallpapers
• Security updates auto installed
• uCareSystemCore update manager
• Random/Interval Wallpaper changer

File Manager Extensions:

• Open as root
• Set as wallpaper
• Right click check md5sum
• Right click desktop trash empty

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Based on the recently announced Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, Voyager 16.04.1 LTS comes with the latest and most advanced Xfce 4.12.3 desktop environments, the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel that includes support for Intel Skylake CPUs, and UEFI 2.5 (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) for modern PCs.

Live Voyager is an open source distribution of Linux based on a special edition of the highly acclaimed Ubuntu operating system that uses Xfce as its main desktop environment. It includes the same stable and reliable base as Xubuntu and on top of that various tweaks and additional software.

Xfdashboard, the GNOME Shell-like dashboard for Xfce, has been updated to version 0.6, and popular open-source software projects like the Mozilla Firefox web browser, Kodi media center, and LibreOffice 5.1 office suite have been added to the new Voyager 16.04.1 LTS release.



Available for 64-bit and 32-bit PCs

Being based on Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus), the Voyager 16.04.1 LTS distribution inherits almost all of its new GNU/Linux technologies. Voyager 16.04.1 LTS comes two months after the release of Voyager 16.04 LTS, it’s available for download as 64-bit and 32-bit Live ISO images, and users are encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible.

Download 32 bit | Download 64 bit

A classic icon theme for bright or grey themes For Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04

Features:
– colorful
– many Icons
– works on every Desktop
– sharp, pixel perfect icons with borders

Install

Ivy is now a part of the Hedera-theme so the simpliest way to get it is:

1) Open term and navigate into your icon themes directory eg:

cd /usr/share/icons

2) Download the Ivy/Hedera icon theme with Subversion:

svn co https://github.com/sixsixfive/Hedera/trunk/CP_TO_DATADIRS/icons/Hedera Hedera

See also: https://github.com/sixsixfive/Ivy#install

La Capitaine (Icon Theme) 0.2.1 is available for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04

La Capitaine is an icon pack, designed to integrate with most desktop environments. The set of icons takes inspiration from the latest iterations of Mac OS X and Google’s Material Design.

Every image in this theme is a scalable vector graphic so it will look great at any size, on any screen. In my spare time, I work on adding new icons, updating old ones, and making this theme more complete. Since this theme is updated often, you should clone this git repository and pull regularly to make sure you’re always up-to-date:

cd ~/.icons

git clone https://github.com/keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme.git

Configuration
La Capitaine comes with a configuration script which attempts to determine your distribution and desktop environment. Using this information, La Capitaine updates several system icons and icons used for mime-types.

For best integration with your distro/desktop environment, please run ./configure and follow the prompts.

License

• Artwork and other assets: GPLv3
• Configuration script: MIT
• Derivative work of: El General

version: 0.2.1:
* updated/redesigned icons:
– ALSA mixer GUI (as alternate icon)
– Yahoo! mail
– Bitcoin
– Git GUIs (gitg, giteye, et.al.)
– GNOME Weather
– ownCloud (with circle variant)
– Transmission Bittorrent
– 16×16 places icons
– location status icon
* added new icons:
– Chromium B.S.U.
– Codeblocks
– Firewall-config/Firewall-applet
– GNOME Online Accounts icons (Facebook, Flickr, Google, MSN/Microsoft, ownCloud, Pocket, Yahoo!)
– JDownloader
– Mega sync (mega.co.nz)
– Evolution preferences icons (Contacts, Certificates, Composer, Accounts, Network Proxy)
– Evolution symbolic icon
– Skype for Linux Alpha
– Terminix
– Redshift status on & off
– Steam folder
– ownCloud folder
* Minor tweaking:
– Alien Arena
– Kwrite

Download Icon Theme

Bodhi Linux is an elegant and lightweight Ubuntu-based distribution featuring Moksha, an Enlightenment-17-based desktop environment. The project takes a decidedly minimalist approach by offering modularity, high levels of customisation, and choice of themes. In addition to basic 32- and 64-bit systems, Bodhi maintains designated ISO images for Chromebooks and legacy machines. By default Bodhi has only five pre-installed applications: Midori, Terminology, PCManFM, ePhoto, and ePad. Additional software is available via AppCenter, a web-based software installation tool.

Not only is our first 4.0.0 alpha release here – but it is here relatively on schedule. If all goes according to plan we will have something stamped as stable before September hits. I would just like to be clear that this is far from a polished / finished product. I would encourage anyone wanting to write a review to wait to do so until our stable release. If you are not someone who is interested in helping find issues please wait as well.

To get right down to it – this release has the following known issues:

• No Bootsplash
• The Installer brings up a password prompt – just click OK to continue
• Some extra menu entries are present. Feel free to manually remove them.
• Many others I have yet to find

This release is also only coming in 64bit flavoring. The final Bodhi 4.0.0 release will include 32bit and non-PAE releases still. Hopefully with the beta release early next month I will have these other variations put together, but for now just 64bit is included with this alpha release. You can download the ISO image from source forge here. Please take the time to verify the MD5sum (232158de7a47ea28f5f651c36d7a589b) matches before reporting any issues. The primary purpose of this release is to start testing the Moksha desktop on the new Ubuntu 16.04 base to ensure there are not any unforeseen issues with this.

Linux kernel 4.7 (Stable) was released, how to update / upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

The Linux 4.7 kernel has been in development for the past two months, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone who is either reading our website on a regular basis or keeping pace with the Linux kernel development cycle, since it is quite normal for this branch. A total of seven Release Candidate (RC) testing builds have debuted since May 29, 2016, and they have introduced numerous new features and improvements.

Includes powerful features
Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Here’s what’s new in Linux kernel 4.7

The biggest new features of Linux kernel 4.7 are support for the recently announced Radeon RX 480 GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) from AMD, which, of course, has been implemented directly into the AMDGPU video driver, a brand new security module, called LoadPin, which makes sure the modules loaded by the kernel all originate from the same file system, and support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP.

Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.7 is the first one to ensure the production-ready status of the sync_file fencing mechanism used in the Android mobile operating system, allow Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) programs to attach to tracepoints, as well as to introduce the long-anticipated “schedutil” frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency scaling subsystem, which promises to be faster and more accurate than existing ones.

How to Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.7 (Stable) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint using Script :

To Install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.7 (Stable) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.7-stable

sudo chmod +x kernel-4.7-stable

./kernel-4.7-stable

Installation progress



After installation is finished, reboot and check your kernel :

$ uname -a

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive. 

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.  

The development of the upcoming major version of FreeBSD, whose final release is scheduled for early September, continues at a fast pace. Although delayed by a week, the 11.0-BETA2 build was finally announced yesterday

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley’s “4.4BSD-Lite” release, with some “4.4BSD-Lite2” enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz’s port of U.C. Berkeley’s “Net/2” to the i386, known as “386BSD”, though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software – all free and easy to install.


New FreeBSD development branch installation ISOs and virtual machine
disk images have been uploaded to the FTP mirrors.

As with any development branch, the installation snapshots are not
intended for use on production systems.  We do, however, encourage
testing on non-production systems as much as possible.

Please also consider installing the sysutils/panicmail port, which can
help in providing FreeBSD developers the necessary information regarding
system crashes.

See also the (incomplete) release notes which are still work-in-progress.

Download
FreeBSD-11.0-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,479MB, SHA512),
FreeBSD-11.0-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,203MB, SHA512)

KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages which are available from in-house repositories. KaOS employs a rolling-release development model and is built exclusively for 64-bit computer systems.

KaOS is proud to present the 2016.07 ISO. The policy is, once a first pacman -Syu becomes a major update, it is time for a new ISO so new users are not faced with a difficult first update. With all the needed rebuilds for the move to GCC 5, most systems will see 70-80% of their install replaced by new packages so a new ISO is more than due.

Desktop

The Plasma Desktop includes Frameworks 5.24.0, Plasma 5.7.2, KDE Applications 16.04.3 & not yet released ports of KDE Applications. All built on Qt 5.7.0. Changes in Plasma 5.7 include improved workflows, the return of the agenda view in the calendar, the Volume Control applet gained the ability to control volume on a per-application basis & allows you to move application output between devices using drag & drop, new System Tray & Task Manager, plus huge steps towards a Wayland-based windowing system


K3b is back on this ISO as the default CD/DVD creator. The port to Qt 5/Frameworks 5 has progressed to such a state that it is a fully functioning application again.

Some of the latest Qt 5 applications that just moved into the KaOS repositories include Amarok (back as a Frameworks 5 application), Mediainfo and Cryfs-Gui

Kernel with build-in Microcode support

With the move to the Linux kernel 4.6, it is now possible to fully automate the Early Microcode update. This new kernel has all needed ucode build-in, thanks to commits like these. For users, this means no need to install any ucode package, no need to adjust bootloaders or have an extra initrd just for Microcode loading. Many modern CPUs require loading microcode before everything else, as the update causes system instability otherwise.

Base of the system

Encrypted file system support is included in the installer. LUKS encryption is available for both the automated install options as well as manual.

Most notable major updates to the base of the system are a GCC 5.4.0, Binutils 2.26.1 new toolchain, Linux 4.6.4, LLVM/Clang 3.8.1, Poppler 0.45.0, Python 3.5.2, Pulseaudio 9.0, Xorg-Server 1.18.4 and MariaDB 10.1.15

KaOS repositories no longer provide Qt 4. It is a good three years ago that development for Qt 4 stopped, late 2015 all support including security fixes ended. Any application that has not made the transition to Qt 5 in all this time can no longer be supported in KaOS. Either they actually are no longer maintained or their development is ignoring the implications of building on a possible insecure toolkit.

Common Notes

The artwork includes custom icon themes for light and dark themes. Midna and Midna Dark both create a complete unified look from boot-up all the way through logout.

This ISO uses the CRC and finobt enabled XFS filesystem as default. CRCs enable enhanced error detection due to hardware issues, whilst the format changes also improves crash recovery algorithms and the ability of various tools to validate and repair metadata corruptions when they are found. The free inode btree does not index used inodes, allowing faster, more consistent inode allocation performance as filesystems age.

It is possible for both the Live session and installed system to start a Plasma Wayland session right from the login manager. An X11 session is of course still default, but the drop-down menu has a Wayland entry too. With Plasma 5.7, the Wayland session is now possible on more systems.

KaOS uses the Systemd provided Systemd-boot for UEFI installs.


Calamares

The used installer framework has moved to the 2.3 series. Highlights of the changes and additions:

• Fixed a long standing and hard to debug issue with occasional unwanted resize operations being executed
• Support for Alongside (i.e. shrink+autoinstall), Replace (i.e. replace+autoinstall) and Manual partitioning with LUKS.
• Implemented type to search support in the keyboard module
• Improved support for NVME devices in fstab.
• Added support for generating /etc/crypttab, this relies on a single master passphrase.
• Improved reboot configuration handling in the Finished module.
• Much improved mke2fs and e2fsck handling, which fixes a multitude of random (but not very frequent) install failures.

Known issues:

• On systems running the Nouveau graphics driver, Qupzilla will not start. Either install the non-free Nvidia driver or use another browser. Nouveau is not compatible with QtWebEngine.
• If you want to use a GPT partition table on a BIOS system, make sure to set it up following BIOS GPT, the installer’s partitioner can only handle GPT correctly for UEFI
• Installing on RAID or LVM is currently not possible
• Hibernate on LUKS enabled swap partitions needs manual intervention, the installer misses some settings to fully support this

The Korora Project has released version 24 (codename “Sheldon”) which is now available for download.

Korora was born out of a desire to make Linux easier for new users, while still being useful for experts. The main goal of Korora is to provide a complete, easy-to-use system for general computing. Originally based on Gentoo Linux in 2005, Korora was re-born in 2010 as a Fedora Remix with tweaks and extras to make the system “just work” out of the box.

Changes in Korora 24

Images are 64 bit only, 32 bit users can still upgrade

Over the last few versions the demand for 32 bit ISOs has markedly decreased to the point where we feel it’s no-longer necessary to provide install images for the platform. Starting with Korora 24, images will be 64 bit (x86_64) only, however those who have 32 bit systems already are still able to upgrade to Korora 24. If you have been running 32 bit Korora on 64 bit hardware we strongly encourage you to install the 64 bit version instead.

No KDE Plasma release yet

We would dearly love to have a KDE iso ready to go, but we ran into a number of issues and decided to not let this hold up the release of Korora 24.. It is possible to upgrade a Korora 23 install of KDE to Korora 24 however there are some settings such as themes may need to be manually set up again.

Pharlap has been deprecated

Features on Korora 24 :

Cinnamon 3.0:
This new release of Cinnamon includes lots of refinements. Refer to the Cinnamon Release Announcement for more details.

GNOME 3.20:
GNOME 3.20 also has improved support for the Wayland compositor. Refer to the GNOME Release Announcement for more details.

Mate 1.14:
This release mainly focused on bug fixes and improving support for GTK3.20. Refer to the Mate Release announcement for more details.

Xfce 4.12:
This release mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways. Refer to the Xfce Tour for more details.
But wait, there’s more:

Derived from Fedora 241, Korora benefits from Fedora’s long tradition of bringing the latest technologies to open source software users.


Download (SHA256) (pkglist): korora-24-x86_64-cinnamon.iso (1,990MB), korora-24-x86_64-gnome.iso (2,068MB), korora-24-x86_64-mate.iso (2,052MB), korora-24-x86_64-xfce.iso (2,086MB)

Skype for Linux Alpha is released with Version 1.2.0.1, you can Install on  Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

Skype is a free and cross-platform application that provides users with a modern Internet telephony and instant messaging application based on the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. It is available on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS operating systems.

Skype for Linux Alpha recently released, is an early edition of a new version of Skype for Linux. Currently it lacks some features seen on the skype app but all of the features will be released in the final version. It can be installed globally but is currently available in English only.

According to the developers, this release comes with the latest, fastest and most responsive Skype UI, so you can share files, photos, videos and a whole new range of new emoticons with your friends.

Features at a glance

The application offers free and unlimited worldwide Internet calls with other Skype users, an easy to use and simple graphical user interface, support for native notifications, SMS (Short Message Service) support, as well as support for prepaid phone calls.

Among other features, we can mention superior sound quality over similar products, out-of-the-box support for routers, firewalls and NAT (Network Address Translation) without requiring users to configure their network.

In addition, the program supports end-to-end encryption for improved privacy, and it’s based on the modern P2P (Peer-to-peer) technology developed by the same team that created the well known Kazaa and Joltid applications.

It’s also possible to enable the SMS functionality from the Options dialog, as well as call forwarding and voice messages. In addition, you will be able to configure your microphone, speaker and webcam devices, manage blocked people and public APIs.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Qt
• D-Bus
• libasound2
• 1 Ghz processor or faster
• 256 MB RAM
• 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive
• Microphone and speakers or headset
• Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection)
• Video card driver with Xv support

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation

Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. “Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

In the good tradition of an Ubuntu Live OS, the ISO images come with the same boot menu that was available in previous Ubuntu releases, engineered to start the live system in ten second from the moment the user boots the ISO image on his/her PC.

Pressing any key on your keyboard during the 10-second timeout will give you access to the Live ISO boot menu, which lets you directly install the OS without going through the live session, as well as to run a memory test or boot an existing OS.


As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation.  These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Mythbuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 LTS, Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu Kylin 16.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu Studio 16.04.1 LTS are also now available. More details can be found in their individual release notes

Download links: 
ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,443MB, SHA256, signature,torrent, pkglist), 
kubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,466MB, SHA256,signature, torrent, pkglist), 
lubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (855MB, SHA256,signature, torrent, pkglist), 
ubuntu-mate-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,585MB,SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 
mythbuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso(1,379MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 
ubuntu-gnome-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,239MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 
ubuntukylin-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,476MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 
ubuntustudio-16.04.1-dvd-amd64.iso (2,658MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 
xubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (1206MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist).

How To install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.7 RC7 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features
Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Changelog

How to Update / Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.7 RC7 on Ubuntu / Linux Miint :

To install and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.7 RC7 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download Script :

$ wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.7-RC7

set permission :

$ sudo chmod +x kernel-4.7-RC7

Install script :

$ ./kernel-4.7-RC7

After Installation is completed, please reboot your ubuntu system :

$ sudo reboot

After reboot your system, check your kernel version :

$ uname -a

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive. 

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity. 

PowerDNS is a free and open source daemon nameserver that provides high-performance and can be modelled to act as an advanced and modern authoritative-only nameserver on GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as BSD distributions.

A DNS server written from scratch
PowerDNS is written from scratch, conforms with all relevant DNS standards documents, and interfaces with almost any database. It is distributed in multiple, separate packages, including pdns, powerdns-server, pdns-recursor and pdns-server.

Linux Kernel 4.6.4 (stable) is released today, how to  update or upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems 

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features

Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Linux kernel 4.6.4 is now the most advanced kernel version you can get for a GNU/Linux operating system, though not many distributions have switched to this branch yet, even if Greg Kroah-Hartman urged everyone a while ago to move from the Linux 4.5 series to Linux 4.6. On the other hand, it looks like some distros prefer to use a long-term supported (LTS) branch, such as Linux 4.4, which has also been updated today to version 4.4.15.

“I’m announcing the release of the 4.6.4 kernel. All users of the 4.6 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.6.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.6.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”

Changelog

How to : Update/Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.6.4 (stable) on Ubuntu Derivatives :

Linux AIO Team are pleased to announce the release of Linux AIO Fedora 24 in our Primary branch

From the creators of Linux AIO Ubuntu, Linux AIO Debian, Linux AIO Linux Mint Debian and Linux AIO Linux Mint, we introduce you to the Linux AIO Fedora project, a special distribution of Linux that contains four Live editions of the Fedora Linux operating systems, with the GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE and MATE desktop environments.

Distributed as Live DVDs, supports 64-bit architectures
The project is distributed via Softpedia as a Live DVD ISO image that supports the 64-bit versions of said Fedora Linux distributions. The ISO image has approximately  GB in size and must be written to dual-layer DVD discs or USB thumb drivers of 8GB ot higher capacity, in order to boot them from the BIOS of a computer.

Choose between running Fedora with GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE or MATE

As expected, the boot menu is the most important part of a Linux AIO Live DVD, as it allows the user to choose between running Fedora with the GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE or MATE graphical desktop environments. In addition, it is possible to boot an existing operating system from the local drive, run a memory diagnostic test, as well as to reboot the machine.

It contains 32bit and 64bit version of ISOs, with official, untouched Fedora Live 24 releases: Workstation (GNOME), Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE, MATE Compiz and Xfce.

Due to limitations on SourceForge servers (max 5GB file can be uploaded) we needed to split ISO files. This is done by archiving ISO with .7z archiver in two parts. You need to download both parts and then to extract them. For extracting these files all you need is to have .7z archiver installed on your computer.

With today’s Linux AIO Fedora 24 release, there’s no need to download multiple ISO images of various Fedora 24 Spins and install each one on a separate USB flash drive or CD/DVD disc. Instead, you’ll carry with you a single USB key or DVD with all of them.

How to Download

“Due to limitations on SourceForge servers (max 5GB file can be uploaded) we needed to split ISO files. This is done by archiving ISO with .7z archiver in two parts. You need to download both parts and then to extract them,” explained the developers.

Linux AIO Fedora 24 64-bit and 32-bit Live ISO images are available for download right now via our website, and please read the developers’ message above to learn how to obtain a usable ISO image from the splitted archives.

The Open Source icon set used in feren OS and designed exclusively to feren OS is now available to download officialy and separate from the OS itself. This icon set is a warm mix of flat and non-flat icons working in harmony with each other and is now available for everyone to download today.

Changelog:
New Icons, Most icons that were flat NOW have a gradient on them, New device icons, New logo where applicable to replace old one, Cinnamon Settings (almost) has all of its icons themed in Linux Mint.

How to Install Inspire Icon Set on Linux Mint / Ubuntu Derivatives :

Download Inspire Icon Themes :

wget https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1466934242/Inspire.tar.gz

Extract To Folder Usr/share/icons

sudo tar -xfz Inspire.tar.gz -C /usr/share/icons/

After installation is finished, Install and Open Unity-Tweak Tool for Change icon on your ubuntu Desktop, like this :

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

Good Luck !!

Ubuntu announced its 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) release almost 9 months ago, on October 22, 2015. As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.10 will reach end of life on Thursday, July 28th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 15.10.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 15.10 is via Ubuntu 16.04. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenialUpgrades

“As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.10 will reach end of life on Thursday, July 28th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 15.10,” says Adam Conrand

Samba was originally designed as an open source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol on Linux-based operating systems. It is mainly used to provide print/file sharing services to CIFS (Common Internet File System) and SMB clients. In other words, Samba is the standard when we talk about interoperability between Windows-based operating system and Linux/UNIX servers. If you want to share files between Linux/UNIX hosts and Windows clients, you have to install Samba.

Features at a glance

Samba is engineered in such a way that it provides secure, fast and stable seamless file and print services to both SMB/CIFS clients. In addition, it supports Active Directory (AD). The Samba project is comprised of two key programs, the SMB saemon (smbd), which handles both “user mode” and “share mode” authorization and authentication processes, and nmbd, which is used for handling name resolution and browsing.

This is a security release in order to address the following defect:

o  CVE-2016-2119 (Client side SMB2/3 required signing can be downgraded)

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Details
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o  CVE-2016-2119:
   It’s possible for an attacker to downgrade the required signing for
   an SMB2/3 client connection, by injecting the SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_GUEST
   or SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_NULL flags.

   This means that the attacker can impersonate a server being connected to by
   Samba, and return malicious results.

   The primary concern is with winbindd, as it uses DCERPC over SMB2 when talking
   to domain controllers as a member server, and trusted domains as a domain
   controller.  These DCE/RPC connections were intended to protected by the
   combination of “client ipc signing” and
   “client ipc max protocol” in their effective default settings
   (“mandatory” and “SMB3_11”).

   Additionally, management tools like net, samba-tool and rpcclient use DCERPC
   over SMB2/3 connections.

   By default, other tools in Samba are unprotected, but rarely they are
   configured to use smb signing, via the “client signing” parameter (the default
   is “if_required”).  Even more rarely the “client max protocol” is set to SMB2,
   rather than the NT1 default.

   If both these conditions are met, then this issue would also apply to these
   other tools, including command line tools like smbcacls, smbcquota, smbclient,
   smbget and applications using libsmbclient.


Changes since 4.4.4:
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o  Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
   * BUG 11860: CVE-2016-2119: Fix client side SMB2 signing downgrade.
   * BUG 11948: Total dcerpc response payload more than 0x400000.

Download Samba 4.4.5