The top 5 Linux distributions.

Here is a short list of top 5 best Linux Distributions:  Ubuntu is considered as one of most user friendly operating system with best GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) among all its complementary. Ubuntu is by-far the most used operating system by novice. If you are new to Linux and don't have a deeper knowledge and understanding of how Linux runs, you must try Ubuntu first. It tops the list of best 5 linux distribution according...

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Vuze bittorent Client - best torrent downloader

Vuze is the best torrent downloader for geeks. With many other torrent client, Vuze has its own users group who don't want to switch over to another one. Vuze is more tech savvy providing more features of controlling the bandwidth and including in it an HD player. With inbuilt search function, and high download speed its the best torrent downloader. Vuze is a light weight software which doesn't slows down the computer and...

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Best Download Manager : Xtreme DM

Although Xtreme download manager is in alpha-release, its one of the best download manager in open source world. It has been considered as the best IDM alternative in open source world. With nice user interface, and browser integration, its a simple, fast and powerful alternative download manager. Thats too, free and Open source.  Features.  Download files at maximum possible speed almost 5-6 times faster than any other download...

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Learn Unix : Introduction to beginners.

Learn UNIX : Chapter 1. What is Unix. Short description to kernel, shell, and commands related to listing files and directories. Lets begin UNIX Introduction with the question "What is UNIX"?  Unix is an operating system just like Windows, which was developed in 60s and is in development ever since. Basically started with just command lines, its now have a Graphical Interface. There are different versions of UNIX, like Sun Solaris, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. However, we in the tutorials will cover with Linux Operating System.  There...

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Kiwix : An offline reader for web content.

Kiwix is an offline reader for web content. It is specially developed to make Wikipedia available offline. It may happen to you sometimes that you want to have some information from Wikipedia and your internet connection is down, or you might want to save some Wikipedia pages for your future references. In such cases, Kiwix provides a way to have Wikipedia offline. With Kiwix, you can enjoy Wikipedia anywhere...

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Download 7-zip : winrar alternative.

Win-Rar is available for trial. But what if you want to keep using it after  the trial period expires? You have to pay for it. But there is an alternative in open source world for win-rar. 7-zip provides the same features to win-rar with high compression ration and supporting a large number of formats. 7-zip is a free open source rar archives handler. And yup. Its free. And open source.  7-zip has been downloaded over a...

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qBittorrent : The best torrent client.

qBittorrent is an advanced torrent downloader and is available for all platforms, be it Linux, Mac, Windows. It has a nice user-interface with integrated search capability. It is intended for both beginners and advanced users and uses as little memory and CPU as possible. It is licensed under GNU General Public Licence 2.0 is freely available. Some of the key features: Multiple downloads at a time.  Integrated torrent search engine allowing...

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Do you really need to switch to open source?

That's the most important question we are answering in our web blog. Do we really need to switch to open source and free software? Lets have pros and cons of the chapter. Well, the open source world says "The human knowledge belongs to the world". Richard Stallman was once frustrated by the proprietary thing in software world, and started GNU. Gnu's Not Unix. Since then, the domain of open source world is increasing only. But there's always a positive and negative side of a thing. Lets look at the negative side first. Do you think efforts...

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Notepad++ : a free source code editor and notepad replacement.

If you have ever programmed in java, you must have used notepad++ at some time. Its a widely used source code editor due to its faster exexution speed and memory requirements. Notepad++ (notepad plus plus) is a free and open source replacement for the windows platform. Its supports several languages, and is presently for MS environment. Its licensed under GNU GPL.  Notepad++ is a powerful text editing software and is written in C++ language....

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