Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red
Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux
is released in server editions for x86, x86_64, Itanium, PowerPC and
IBM System z architectures, and desktop editions for x86 and x86_64
processors. All of Red Hat's official support and training and the Red
Hat Certification Program centres around the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
platform. Red Hat uses strict trademark rules to restrict free
re-distribution of its officially supported versions of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, but still freely provides its source code. Third-party
derivatives can be built and redistributed by stripping away non-free
components.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Over View
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the industry-leading Linux that provides the
foundation for next-generation architectures, with support for all
major hardware platforms and thousands of commercial and custom
applications. When you develop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it means
your apps are developed on the same platform that they’ll be tested and
deployed on, making it easier than ever for both traditional and agile
development teams. As a developer, you’ll have the same stable and
trusted platform that IT has adopted, plus the extra agility to utilize
the latest tools and technologies that you and your enterprise needs for
application development. If you've not seen it yet, read about RHEL 8.
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This subscription includes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (all
currently supported releases), additional development tools, and
numerous add-ons such as resilient storage, scalable file systems, and
high-performance networking. The no-cost subscription also includes
access to the Red Hat Customer Portal for software updates and thousands
of knowledgebase articles. For more information, see Frequently asked questions: no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscription.
Developing container-based applications?
Container images and dockerfiles are available for most Red Hat
Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset components. These
resources make it easy to build containerized applications using
traditional tools. For anyone seeking to create containerized
applications for deployment to Red Hat’s ecosystem of container hosts
and platforms, we recommend using the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK),
which includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, OpenShift
Enterprise, and a number of other tools via the Red Hat Container
Registry.
Makings of a Great Penetration Testing Distribution
What are the makings of a great penetration testing distribution?
The number of users it has? The number of tools it contains? Perhaps
it’s the update cycle of various tools used, or possibly even the
quality of the packaging of these tools. In our opinion, while all the
parameters above are relevant, the true indication of a
great Penetration Testing distribution is the selection of useful and
relevant features that it offers security professionals. What kind of features are we talking about? We’re happy you asked! We’ve made a short list of some of these Kali Linux features, and linked them to their respective sources.
Special Kali Linux Features of Note
Full Customisation of Kali ISOs
Full customisation of Kali ISOs with live-build allowing you to create your own Kali Linux images – Kali Linux is heavily integrated with live-build,
allowing endless flexibility in customising and tailoring every aspect
of your Kali Linux ISO images. Want a non-root user, KDE version of Kali
with only the top 10 tools installed? We have a Kali Linux live build recipe for that!
Kali Linux ISO of Doom and Other Kali Recipes
The Kali Linux ISO of doom – a great example of the flexibility of live-build,
and the types and complexity of customisations possible. Build a self
installing, reverse VPN auto-connecting, network bridging Kali image –
for the perfect hardware backdoor.
Kali Linux Live USB with LUKS Encrypted Persistence
Kali Linux Live USB persistence with LUKS encryption
– Kali has extensive support for USB live installs, allowing for
features such as file persistence or full (USB) disk encryption.
Kali Linux Live USB with Multiple Persistence Stores
Kali Linux Live USB with multiple persistence stores
– What’s more, Kali Linux supports multiple persistence USB stores on a
single USB drive. You can create a live Kali USB bootable drive which
supports encryption and multiple store profiles.
Kali Linux Full Disk Encryption
Kali Linux LUKS Full Disk Encryption
(FDE) – Having the ability to perform a full disk encryption of your
sensitive penetration testing computer drive is an essential feature
needed in our industry. Just the thought of unencrypted client data
getting lost or mishandled is horrific.
Kali Linux LUKS Encryption Nuke
Nuking your Kali Linux hard disk with theKali LUKS nuke option
– While being able to encrypt your drives is important, we believe it’s
also important to be able to quickly control the destruction of data on
these drives. Our Kali LUKS nuke feature is unique to our distribution.
Kali Linux Metapackages
Mastering Kali Linux tool sets withKali Metapackages
– Kali contains a bunch of metapackage collections which aggregate
different toolsets. This makes it easy to get custom, minimized
environments set up. For example, if all you need are some wireless
tools for an upcoming assessment, you can apt-get install kali-linux-wireless.
Kali Linux Amazon EC2 AWS Images
Kali Linux in the cloud – Kali Amazon EC2 imagesavailable
– Need to spin up a Kali box quickly? Perhaps you need some serious
bandwidth or disk space for your upcoming tasks. You can easily set up a
cloud version of Kali Linux in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Kali Linux Accessibility Features
Kali Linux accessibility features for visually impaired users
– Kali is one of the very few Linux distributions which have a working
accessibility system for blind or visually impaired users through both
voice feedback and braille hardware support.
Automating Kali Linux Deployment
Automating Kali Linux deployment viaUnattended PXE installations
– You can automate and customize your Kali Linux installations over the
network. You are one PXE boot away from a fresh, custom Kali
installation, or 10,000 of them.
Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices
Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other interesting ARM devices
– Kali supports over a dozen different ARM devices and common hardware
such as Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Beaglebone, and more. We’re very active in
the ARM arena and constantly add new interesting hardware to our
repertoire.
Kali Linux Forensics Mode
Kali Linux forensics mode
– The bootable “Forensics” mode available in Kali makes it perfect for
forensics work, as the forensics Kali live image option does not mount
any drives (including swap) with this option. The wealth of forensics
tools on Kali (metapackage – kali-forensics-tools) makes Kali a good choice for any forensics work you need.
Kali Linux NetHunter
Kali Linux NetHunter ROM overlay for Nexus Android devices
– Kali is so versatile that creating the “Kali NetHunter” Android was a
natural extension to our distribution. NetHunter is a custom Android
ROM overlay for ASOP which brings together all the toolset of Kali Linux
(and more!) to your Nexus or OnePlus phones.
Kali Linux Running on Android
Kali Linux running on Android through Linux Deploy
– Have a recent Android device other than a Nexus or OnePlus phone? Try
using the Android App “Linux Deploy” to get Kali seamlessly installed
in a chroot environment.
Disk Encryption on Raspberry Pi 2
Disk Encryption on Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM hardware
– There’s no easy way of having LUKS disk encryption on ARM hardware.
We’ve simplified the process and gave it bells and whistles.
The Fedora Linux distribution is sponsored and backed by Red Hat.
It's available for free and acts as a sort of testing ground for Red
Hat's flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a result,
Fedora contains many of the newest ideas and bleeding edge technology.
Things that perform well on Fedora for some time will usually end up
making their way into the commercially available RHEL distribution.
Being backed by a Linux giant like Red Hat certainly has its perks.
Fedora behaves a lot like RHEL and shares a lot of the same features
that you'd normally expect to pay for. CentOS makes its way into the ring as well, but that's more geared towards servers and systems that need unwavering stability.
Fedora sits a lot closer to the edge. It's a prime candidate for
users that want to experience the latest developments in Linux and its
related software. It has several editions available, depending on what
kind of system you'd like to run it on.
Fedora 33 User Documentation
Fedora documentation describes how to install and use the Fedora
operating system and the software packaged by the Fedora Project.
This section contains three books about Fedora 33:
The Fedora Documentation Project only actively maintains
documentation for the most recent release and the one before it.
We also preserve older documentation on this site for historical
interest and to acknowledge the generous contribution of time and effort
by many, many writers and translators.
In 1997, Richard Stallman wrote:
"The biggest deficiency in free operating systems is not in the
software — it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in
these systems.”[1]
We thank everybody who worked hard to correct that deficiency for previous versions of Fedora.
On Windows or MacOS?
Get started by using Fedora Media Writer, which makes it super easy to give Fedora a try.
CentOS
is an open source, community-supported and enterprise-ready
distribution of Linux based on the publicly available sources of the
commercial and highly acclaimed RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
operating system.
Besides being based on Red Hat, the project is
also fully compatible with the award winning enterprise Linux
distribution. Key features include active development, easy maintenance,
open management, community infrastructure, and open business model.
The
distribution is suitable for long term use in production environments,
deployed as a server. It provides users and package maintainers with a
friendly and familiar environment, as well as long-term support of the
core and commercial support (offered by a partner vendor).
It is
distributed as two installable-only DVDs, as well as minimal and netboot
CD ISO images. Supported hardware platforms include the standard 64-bit
(x86_64) and 32-bit (i386). In addition, Live CDs are also available
for download separately on Softpedia.
The default desktop
environment used in CentOS is powered by the GNOME project, providing
users with a user-friendly and familiar graphical session that pleases
even the most discerning eye.
Among the included applications and
packages, we can easily mention the LibreOffice office suite, Mozilla
Firefox web browser, GIMP image editor, Inkscape vector graphics editor,
K3b CD/DVD burning software, Vim text editor, and Mozilla Thunderbird
email client.
Server-oriented packages include the Apache web
server, MySQL and PostgreSQL database server, OpenSSH and OpenSSL tools
for encrypted communication sessions, Perl, Python and PHP programming
languages, Postfix email server, and Samba network sharing framework.
As
expected, the project provides support for multiple languages, and
comes with built-in support for well known file systems, including EXT3
and EXT4.
Summing up, CentOS is a stable, reproducible, easy to
maintain and supported Linux distribution specifically engineered to be
deployed on enterprises' local servers, as well as behind firewall
protections to secure sensitive data.
Excited About Ubuntu 20.04? Here’s What’s New in This LTS Release
Ubuntu 20.04 codenamed Focal Fossa is now available. Excited about
Ubuntu 20.04? Let’s see what new changes this long term support release
brings.
New features in Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa
Since it’s an LTS release, stability is of the upmost importance. Canonical team is not going to try any radical changes here.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users would surely notice the visual changes and
performance improvements but I don’t think you’ll see many changes
between 19.10 and 20.04.
1. More default theme variants and the aubergine touch
Canonical is experimenting with themes again. In Ubuntu 19.10, the default Yaru theme introduced a dark version. Ubuntu 20.04 takes it further three variants of the default Yaru theme: Light, Dark and Standard.
You don’t even need to install GNOME Tweaks to switch between the default theme variants. This option is embedded into the Settings application.
Ubuntu 20.04 also has slightly different look with emphasis on
aubergine as second accent color (instead of the regular blue and
green).
2. GNOME 3.36 and all the visual and performance improvements that come with it
Ubuntu 20.04 has the latest GNOME 3.36 release. This means that all the new features in 3.36 are also available for Ubuntu 20.04.
For example, you’ll notice a revamped lock screen.
The one more good thing is that now you don’t need to scroll down to
go to the lock screen anymore. A single click and you’ll be on the login
screen.
3. Disable all desktop notification with ‘Do Not Disturb’ button
Getting distracted by desktop notifications? You can utilize the ‘do not disturb’ option to toggle the desktop notifications.
4. Fractional scaling
Ubuntu finally brings fractional scaling. If you always found that
icons at 100% looked too small and bit too big at 200%, you can take
advantage of the fractional scaling.
When enabled, you can set the scaling to 125, 150, 175 and 200.
The fractional scaling didn’t work for my multiple monitor setup though. It showed hardware limitation error.
5. Don’t like the dock? You can finally get rid of it
I have come across a few people who don’t like the launcher or the
dock with application shortcuts which is usually found in the left side
of the screen.
In older versions, you can change its location to bottom or right
side or hide it when an application window approached it but you could
not hide it permanently.
If you never liked the dock, you can now disable it completely. There
is a new application, unsurprisingly called Extensions, to manage
extensions and you can use it to disable the dock completely.
6. Snaps before apts
Canonical keeps on pushing its universal packaging format snap. It is
even more evident in Ubuntu 20.04 release. If you try to run a program
that is not installed, earlier it used to suggest apt command for installing it.
But now it suggests both snap and apt commands with snap command suggestion before apt.
7. Linux Kernel 5.4
Ubuntu 20.04 features the latest LTS kernel 5.4. This means that you get native ExFAT support and all the other performance improvements and new hardware supports that come with it.
8. Faster install, faster boot
Thanks to the new compression algorithms, it now takes less time to
install Ubuntu 20.04. Not only that, Ubuntu 20.04 also boots faster in
comparison to 18.04.
I used systemd-analyze to check the boot time in both versions.
9. Improved ZFS support
Ubuntu became the first mainstream Linux distribution to introduce ZFS as root with Ubuntu 19.10 release.
While Linus Torvalds may not like ZFS, it is still a popular file system. Ubuntu 20.04 sees improved support for ZFS.
10. No Amazon app, no python 2
For past eight years or so, Ubuntu included an Amazon app installed
by default. This so-called Amazon app did nothing but open Amazon
website of your country (if there is one) in a web browser with Ubuntu’s
affiliate link. The Amazon shopping app disappears from Ubuntu 20.04.
Python 2 was first release in 2000. After twenty years, Python 2 has
finally reached end of life. Ubuntu 20.04 won’t support Python 2 anymore
and you’ll have to content yourself with Python 3.
11. WireGuard VPN specially backported
Though Ubuntu 20.04 won’t be using kernel 5.6 at least immediately, it is backporting WireGuard in kernel 5.4.
WireGuard is the new buzz in VPN industry and thus including WireGuard in its kernel should give some boost to Ubuntu 20.04 in the cloud scenario.
12. No 32-bit systems for Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu is not providing ISO for 32-bit computers for a few years now.
But at least existing 32-bit Ubuntu users could still upgrade to Ubuntu
18.04.
That’s not the case anymore. You cannot upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 if
you are using 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04. If you try to run the upgrade, you’ll
see an error of this kind.
In other words, if you are using 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04, you’ll have to stay with it till April 2023.
13. Under the hood improvements
There are a few under the hood improvements:
GNOME 3.36 is less resource hungry and it feels sleek and light to use
There are improvements to Thunderbolt support
Most of the software have been upgraded to newer version
You’ll get NVIDIA drivers on the ISO itself
I have shown some of the above mentioned features in this video. See them in action:
Things you should know about Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04 is a LTS (long term support) release. It will be
supported for five years. This means if you use 20.04, you can use it
till April, 2025 without needing to upgrade your computer to a new
Ubuntu release.
Enterprise clients can buy the extended support maintenance for five more years.
If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, you would need to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 first and then upgrade to 20.04.
Download Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is releasing this evening (UK time). The ISO will be officially available in a couple of hours.
If you really don’t want to wait, you can download the daily build
ISO. It’s almost the same as the final ISO. Download and install from
it. Keep your system updated and you’ll be at the same as level as the
final stable release.
Ultimate Edition
Linux, previously "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition". We cater to a large base of
*nix users including, but certainly not limited to gamers & low
resource computers. We have a Ultimate Edition for virtually any user.
Features
Large userbase, people help people. Many smart admin / mods.
We host exclusive packages though our custom repo.
We host software for other projects our admin create.
All odd releases have other environments, all even solid Gnome.
Cloud based servers to meet our users demands.
Multiple forums throughout the world to close the language barrier.
CentOS is an open source, community-supported and enterprise-ready distribution of Linux based on the publicly available sources of the commercial and highly acclaimed RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) operating system.
Besides being based on Red Hat, the project is also fully compatible with the award winning enterprise Linux distribution. Key features include active development, easy maintenance, open management, community infrastructure, and open business model.
The distribution is suitable for long term use in production environments, deployed as a server. It provides users and package maintainers with a friendly and familiar environment, as well as long-term support of the core and commercial support (offered by a partner vendor).
It is distributed as two installable-only DVDs, as well as minimal and netboot CD ISO images. Supported hardware platforms include the standard 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (i386). In addition, Live CDs are also available for download separately on Softpedia.
The default desktop environment used in CentOS is powered by the GNOME project, providing users with a user-friendly and familiar graphical session that pleases even the most discerning eye.
Among the included applications and packages, we can easily mention the LibreOffice office suite, Mozilla Firefox web browser, GIMP image editor, Inkscape vector graphics editor, K3b CD/DVD burning software, Vim text editor, and Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
Server-oriented packages include the Apache web server, MySQL and PostgreSQL database server, OpenSSH and OpenSSL tools for encrypted communication sessions, Perl, Python and PHP programming languages, Postfix email server, and Samba network sharing framework.
As expected, the project provides support for multiple languages, and comes with built-in support for well known file systems, including EXT3 and EXT4.
Summing up, CentOS is a stable, reproducible, easy to maintain and supported Linux distribution specifically engineered to be deployed on enterprises' local servers, as well as behind firewall protections to secure sensitive data.
Fedora is an open source Linux distribution based on and sponsored by Red Hat. It is a consumer operating system distributed in different editions.
Being based on Red Hat Linux, the distro uses the RPM package manager to install, update and remove packages. It provides users with installable-only Live DVD ISO images, as well as Live CDs for each of its custom editions.
A very large ISO image with the distro’s sources, as well as the installable DVDs, are available for download in this entry. The latter come with all the desktop environments supported by Fedora and distributed on the separate Live CDs, including GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and MATE.
Here we review only the DVD images, which are supported on both 64-bit and 32-bit hardware platforms. If you want to download or learn more about the Live CD editions of Fedora, please search our Linux section.
Besides installing the latest version of Fedora Linux, the boot medium can be used to rescue an existing Fedora installation, run a memory test, boot from the local drive, and install Fedora in safe graphics mode.
Not only that the installation wizard is modern and smart, but the entire installation process is simple and straightforward. It will automatically detect most of your hardware components, if not all, and drop users to an installation summary screen.
From there, you can change the date and time, keyboard layout, system language, configure the network, select the installation source, choose a desktop environment and the applications you want to install, and partition the disk drive.
Next, you must set the root (system administrator) password and add a new user. That’s all, the installation process will continue to deploy all the files from the boot medium and notify users when to reboot the system.
Fedora Linux is definitely one of the most influential operating systems on the open source ecosystem. It can be deployed on any hardware, and customized to the maximum.
Ultimate Edition (formerly Ubuntu Ultimate Edition) is an open source distribution of Linux based on the world's most popular free operating system, Ubuntu. It is built around the MATE desktop environment (a clone of GNOME 2) and comes with a plethora of pre-installed applications and utilities.
The project’s main goal is to provide users with a comprehensive remix of Ubuntu (usually based on the latest stable release). It’s available for download as a Live DVD ISO image, supported on both 64-bit and 32-bit hardware platforms.
The boot prompt of the Live DVDs will allow users to start an existing operating system installed on the first disk, run a memory test, rescue a broken OS, as well as to install the operating system using regular, expert and command-line expert methods.
As its name suggests, it is designed from the ground up to provide users with a large collection of applications, themes, icons, backgrounds, out-of-the-box support for multimedia files, and any other program requested by the community.
Among the included applications, we can mention VLC Media Player, Amarok music player, Wine Windows emulation, MPlayer/Mencoder video player and encoder, as well as K9Copy, Dvdrip, DeVeDE and DVD Shrink DVD copying software.
gFTP will take care of all your file transfer needs, KVIrc allows users to connect to IRC channels to talk with their friends, EasyTag can be used to edit MP3 tags, Inkscape to draw 2D vector graphics, as well as Screem, Quanta Plus and Bluefish for editing HTML files.
Ultimate Edition also comes with the Qemu virtualization software, Avidemux video editor, Frostwire and Amule P2P clients, Ajunta IDE programming environment, Qcad CAD tool, Glade graphical interface designer, Audacity audio editor, Aria2 download manager, and Bum boot-up manager.
In addition, it includes the KolourPaint digital painting software, GnuCash financial application, Kino video editor, ISO Master ISO editor, Ghex Hex editor, Istanbul live screen capture tool, Sum startup manager, Gourmet recipe manager, and Graveman and Brasero CD/DVD burning apps.
Ultimate Edition become popular due to its large user base, exclusive packages, and extra application. Or, as many would say, it’s what Ubuntu should have been from the get-go.
KNOPPIX is an open source Linux distribution that gained its popularity from the fact that the ISO image provides users with a modern live environment, included a large collection of applications, and supported numerous hardware components.
It is distributed as two Live CD and DVD ISO images with support for the English and German speaking users. The main website of the project is also available in dual language format, English and German, especially because the developer is of German nationality.
The Live DVD consists of a vast collection of GNU/Linux software, support numerous graphics cards, sound cards, USB devices, various peripherals and SCSI disks. It can be used to boot an existing OS, run a memory test, or start the live environment in safe graphics mode.
It was always based on the KDE desktop environment, which provides users with a very modern, eye-candy desktop experience and access to top-notch open source applications and utilities.
To run KNOPPIX, you will need to have a computer with at least an Intel or AMD-compatible CPU (i486 and up), 120 MB of RAM for the graphical desktop (500MB recommended), a bootable CD-ROM/DVD drive or a USB flash disk, a standard SVGA-compatible video card, and a USB or PS/2 mouse.
Default applications include the Apache OpenOffice office suite, Mozilla Firefox web browser, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) image editor, MPlayer video player, as well as various other utilities for data rescue, system repair and network analysis tasks.
As mentioned before, this is the Live DVD of the KNOPPIX Linux distribution. A Live CD edition also exists on Softpedia, built around the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.
Whether you use KNOPPIX to rescue a broken system, recover data from a damaged hard drive, as you main operating system or as an educational demo for non-profit organizations, it can deliver anything you want at any moment you want.
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source browser in the world that
played one of the key roles in expanding the way we experience internet.
Originally introduced to the market on the September 23 2001 under its
original name “Phoneix” by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross, this
browser immediately cached the attention of the public and managed to
attract incredible audience that made it the most popular browser in the
world for several years. Today in early 2014, Firefox holds a steady
third place, closely behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Google’s
Chrome.
Popularity of Mozilla Firefox was achieved by constant
delivery of revolutionary features and services that made browsing the
internet much more pleasant, streamlined and ready for serious
professional use. These features include tabbed browsing, live
bookmarking, integrated download manager, on-the-fly spellchecking,
option for private browsing, increased security, stability, support for
work on older PC configurations, support for all the most popular web
standards (HTML4, HTML5, XML, CSS, and dozens of others) and maybe most
importantly, ability to use third party add-ons that can be created by
users themselves. These add-ons were placed in easy to use online
marketplace that supported single-click installation of those plugins,
which tremendously boosted the ability of users to customize their
browser experience just how they want it.
No matter if you are
just introduced to the world of the internet or you are longtime user,
Firefox browser represents one of the best ways you can experience
everything that internet has to offer. Firefox offers:
Browsing Made Easy Get
to your favorite sites quickly – even if you don’t remember the URLs.
Type your term into the location bar (aka the Awesome Bar) and the
autocomplete function will include possible matches from your browsing
history, bookmarked sites and open tabs.
High Performance With
faster start-up times, rapid graphics rendering and improved page load
speed, the latest version of Firefox is full of major performance
improvements you’ll notice instantly.
Advanced Security Want
to be extra sure about a site’s legitimacy before you make a purchase?
Click on its favicon for an instant identity overview. Another click
digs deeper: how many times have you visited? Are your passwords saved?
Check up on suspicious sites, avoid Web forgeries and make sure a site
is what it claims to be.
Powerful Personalization The
Add-ons Manager has been redesigned to let you discover and install
add-ons without ever leaving Firefox. Browse ratings, recommendations,
descriptions and pictures of the add-ons in action to help you make your
selection.
The Cutting Edge Site authors
and developers will love Firefox’s new and enhanced functionalities. If
creating advanced content and applications gets you excited, Firefox is
the best browser choice.
Universal Access Firefox
supports open font formats like WOFF, TrueType and OpenType, meaning
site designers are no longer limited to a select handful of web-ready
fonts as they create their sites.
Ubuntu is an open source Linux distribution that
can be used as your only operating system on any computer platform. It
has been declared by Canonical the world’s most popular free operating
system.
This Linux flavor is derived from the stable base of the
Debian GNU/Linux operating system, and it’s distributed into multiple
editions, each with its own functionality and purpose.
Be aware
that Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, maintains multiple
version for different periods of time. This is a Long Term Support
edition of Ubuntu, also known Precise Pangolin or Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.
It
is distributed as a Desktop and Alternate Live CDs. While the first one
is recommended for novice users and people who want to deploy Ubuntu on
their computer in a fast manner, the latter should only be used by
advanced users who want to encrypt their entire installation or create
LVM (Logical Volume Management) partitions.
The Alternate CDs can
also be used in case the Desktop CD does not support your graphics
card. Both editions are distributed with two ISO images, one for each of
the supported architectures (32-bit and 64-bit).
Whether you
want to just test Ubuntu, install it on your disk drive, or use it as a
rescue CD, you don’t have to do anything when booting the live medium.
However, you can start an existing operating system, run a memory test
or install the system directly from the boot menu.
This edition
of Ubuntu uses the controversial Unity user interface, which provides
users with a very modern and futuristic desktop experience. The desktop
session is comprised of a top panel and a side dock (application
launcher).
Default applications include the Nautilus file
manager, LibreOffice office suite, Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla
Thunderbird email client,
torrent downloader, Shotwell image viewer and organizer, Rhythmbox
music player, Totem movie player, Empathy instant messenger, and GParted
partition editor.
There are also many other standard utilities
included in this edition of Ubuntu Linux, such as a startup disk
creator, a screenshot tool, a disk usage analyzer, a basic text editor, a
remote desktop client, as well as several games.
Xiaopan OS Easy to use pentesting distribution for wireless security enthusiasts
Description Xiaopan OS is an easy to use software package for beginners and experts that includes a number of advanced hacking tools to penetrate WPA / WPA2 / WPS / WEP wireless networks.
Based on the Tiny Core Linux (TCL) operating system (OS), it has a slick graphical user interface (GUI) requiring no need for typing Linux commands. Xiaopan OS is Windows, Mac and Linux compatible and users can simply install and boot this ~70mb OS through a USB pen drive or in a virtual machine (VM) environment.
Some of the tools included are Inflator, Aircrack-ng, Minidwep GTK, XFE, wifite and feeding bottle. Supported cards include RTL8187L, RT3070, AR9271 and many more.
