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Ubuntu, one of the most popular Debian Linux Distro Maintained by Canonical, one of the leading and well known brand for accepting Open Source Philosophy. Ubuntu is now 10 years old and have gained popularity for being one of the best, awesome, reliable and stable Linux operating System in its 10 years of life and many more to achieve in future

 Here are the reasons why Ubuntu is Just awesome among all Linux distros: 

 1 ) Stability : Ubuntu is considered as one of the most stable Linux distro and its too growing at goo pace. Though each and every OS have bugs and feels problems but in case of Ubuntu, those problems are solved in no time because there's a huge community working for maintaining Ubuntu.

 2) Long Term Support : Ubuntu is popular for its LTS versions due to which Ubuntu gets attached and give promise for providing updates to users for coming Five years.

 3) User- Friendly : Ubuntu official OS uses the Unity Desktop Environment which is very easy to use though you are not friendly with Ubuntu and you don't have to work hard to use it. Its Unity DE is a like same to OS X(Mac OS).

 4) Punctuality : Every new distro version of Ubuntu roll out in every 6 months and its LTS versions are launched in every two years of gap which means that Ubuntu always maintains its Punctuality
Though there are lot of Linux Distros based on Ubuntu such as Linux Mint, Elementary os,etc which too have their own Awesomeness.So a lot of variety of Distros are available and you can use which ever you get fascinated with or comfortable with.

 via : efytimes.com 
5:10 AM



Features :
  1. Add/ Remove Kali linux repositories
  2. Install all Kali Linux tools
Requirements :
  1. Requires Python 2.7 or greater
  2. A Linux OS (based on Ubuntu)
Installation :
just open terminal and copy and paste following code : 

             sudo su
       git clone https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin.git && cp katoolin/katoolin.py /usr/bin/katoolin
chmod +x /usr/bin/katoolin
sudo katoolin

if this don't work than,
  1. Just go to https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin.git
  2. Download the zip file from git
  3. Extract it to /usr/bin/ (don't forget to go superuser by typing sudo su)
  4. you will find katoolin.py 
  5. open it by typing   python katoolin.py
  6. And you will see the screen as above
Usage : 
  1. select the number that you want to install
  2. press 0 to install all tools
  3. type back to go back
  4. type gohome to return to default katoolin screen.

8:39 PM


What is Atom?
Atom is an easily customizable, hackable and open-source code editor bulit from HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.js. Atom 1.0 is an cross platform editor which is avilable for WIndows,, Linux and macOS.

Finally, this Open source code editor has gone stable after its beta release hacing more than 600 themes available for it.

 According to Github,
The tool, which bills itself as ‘a hackable text editor for the 21st Century’, has been downloaded 1.3 million times and is used by more than 350,000 users a month.

Download and install Atom 1.0
Since there are no any official PPA's released so we must have to download in form of .deb, .tar.gz or .rpm for different distros of Linux. you must have to download it from its official site.

                            Download Atom 1.0 open source code editor stable


 source: omgubuntu
6:29 AM

Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela" RC is finally released with the long term support upto 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

New features at a glance:
  • MATE 1.10
  • Software Sources
  • Update Manager
  • Language Settings
  • Login Screen
  • System Improvements
  • Artwork Improvements
  • Other Improvements
  • Main Components
  • LTS Strategy
 check out Whats new in linux mint 17.2

source : http://blog.linuxmint.com
11:44 PM


We FOSS lovers are happy to see that Apple and Microsoft are finally going for open minded or contributing for open source. At WWDC15, Apple has announced that Swift programming language will be available for Linux in coming days.
“We think Swift is the next big programming language. The one we will all be doing applications and systems programming on for 20 years to come. And we think Swift should be everywhere and used by everyone. And so we are going to be doing something really big. Today we’re announcing that Swift will be open source.
 Where as no mentions of Windows regards that windows will not be joining the queue for Swift programming language.

 via : itsfoss
9:49 PM
Ubuntu Tweak mainly designed to tweak Ubuntu Desktop is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. it provides the useful desktop as well as system options.

 Whats new in Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.7

  1. Add support for Ubuntu 14.04
  2. Improve the old kernels clean up
  3. Ubuntu tweak cached in logo in GNOME 3.8
  4. Disable app center and source center
Installing Ubuntu tweak 0.8.7


 To install Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.7 in Ubuntu and other following forked Linux Distros. Copy the following Terminals commands and paste it into your terminal

             sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
            sudo apt-get update
            sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

 Some Screeshots of Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.7 in Linux Mint 17.1 Rebbeca






Source : noobslab
12:37 AM
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