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 to me. 

Read more about Ubuntu Ubuntu: features and download.

Fedora was created to be user friendly. Yet, it contains all the powerful-ness of Linux. It is a powerful as any other distros and supports both graphical mode and command line. Fedora is designed user friendly and has beautiful artwork. Much better than windows. You will the desktop,, file systems, navigation. Almost everything about it. Fedora has a huge collection of its open source apps. 

Read more about Fedora Fedora: features and downloads.

CentOS is derived from Red Hat Linux Distributions. It was released in 2004, and supports many languages. The chances are you will find it in a language that best suits you. Powerful and easy to use. In fact, We have been provided centOS in our college. There is no support system for centOS which is one of its disadvantages. Still, its one the best to use for students who don't to miss the strength of Linux on the cost of GUI. 

Read more about CentOS CentOS: features and downloads.

 OpenSuse is considered as a desktop OS. It competes directly with Ubuntu in its user interface.It has somewhat magical desktop with beautiful graphics. It is built on Linux kernel 3.4. Some other features include inclusion of Open suite, media players, and a lots of software replacement which you use in Windows. Its completely open source and free as other Linux distributions and its support system is present. Best for a beginner after Ubuntu. 
Read more about OpenSuse OpenSuse: features and downloads.

Linux Mint was started in 2006 and soon it became the 4th most widely used operating system after windows, Mac, and ubuntu. Linux Mint has its own users. The latest version is LinuxMind nadia. It is very useful for multimedia lovers. 
Its community driven. There is a community support where users are encouraged to share experiences and bugs. Its very little maintainance makes it most widely used after ubuntu. No anti-viurs, spyware, nothing. Read more about Linux Mint Linux Mint: features and downloads.


Although it depends on person to person what they love. Some go for Graphics point of view, while others don't wanna miss the powerful part of Linux on the cost of GUI. 
If you are a beginner go for Ubuntu/OpenSuse. Or why not to try all, and see which suits you better. 

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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 automatically optimizes torrent download speeds. Lets discuss some of the features.  

Features: 

• Find torrents in One Click. Vuze provides a search box to search almost all the torrent websites and you don't need to go to every torrent website one by one in order to search a torrent file. 
• Subscription. Vuze provides a a way to subscribe to feeds and get regular updates contents directly in the client for download. No need to visit your favorite website daily to check whats new there. 
• Multiple torrents download simultaneously with full control on bandwidth allocation and priority of downloads. 
• Faster downloads by not allowing any third factors to influence the speed of downloads.
• Vuze HD video player. Play the downloaded files in 1080p with inbuilt playback device. No need of any other video playing software. 
• With Vuze HD player, there is a a feature to download subtitles directly in different language from open subtitle website. You don't need to go and search them according to your language need. 

Download. 

You can download Vuze here. 

Warning. Hosting or Downloading copyrighted contents from torrents is copyright violation. We Linuxosr do not appreciate it. By the way, there is always an alternative in free world for the paid softwares you download from torrents.

What is basically a torrent client.
A torrent client is small software which is used to download torrent files to your system. There are various websites which hosts torrents, including movies, games, softwares, or virtually anything. Most of the torrents are copyrighted by the owner. We dont recommend you to download any other copyrighted material from them. A torrent client manages all the sedd/peers activities and ensures a high speed downloading along with resume capability and download anytime anywhere facility. 

Not satisfied with Vuze? Here is another torrent client in Open Source World. Do try it. qBittorrent torrent client. 

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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 manager and resume support for broken or even dead downloads. 
• Download FLV videos from YouTube  Metacafe  Myspace, Google Video or any other site, thus reliving from keeping a you-tube downloader.
• Browser Integration. Captures download automatically from any browser be it Opera, Mozilla, IE, chrome or you name it yourself .
• Xtreme download manager uses data encryption and sophisticated algorithm to increase the download speed to its maximum level. 
• Its written completely in Java, so it runs on any Operating System without even being Installed. Its a portable software and you dont have to worry about its installation. 
• Automatic Antivirus checking can be configures. You can use your own antivirus to perform the check. 
• Automatic Shutdown. When the download completes, you can select options to shutdown your Systems, best for those who have high speed at night, or free wi-fi and don't want to keep waking up just to shutdown laptop after download completion. 
• XX The only perquisite is Java 6 or above. XX

Its Free. Forget the tension about registering after the trial period expires and paying for something. 

Not satisfied with Xtreme Download Manager? Try FDM-Free Download Manager.Another Open Source Project. Its great too. 

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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 is basically three parts of a UNIX operating System: the kernel, the shell, and the programs. 

Now, What is a Kernel? 
The kernel is a part of Operating system which basically handles hardware interaction and allocation of time and memory to programs and management of System calls. 
The shell. It acts as an interface between the user and the kernel. 
Files and Processes. If anything is in Unix, its either a process or a file. A file is a collection of data stored for future use or whenever needed. A process is a program in execution. For ex, lets say you write a piece of code, and stored it in a file. When you execute that file, its a process. And is assigned a Process ID.

What is a Unix Terminal? 
You can get to know about it here in my earlier post introduction-to-shell-programming.

Listing Files and Directories. 

ls         list files and directories. 
List all the Directories and files that are present in the current Directory. However, it doesn't list files with (.) as beginning. As files starting with .(dot) are hidden files. 

ls -a list all files and directories. 
It lists all directories and Files even if they begin with a dot in the Current directory. 

mkdir <directory_name> make a directory. (A directory in Linux/Unix is a Folder in windows.)
Make a directory of the mentioned directory name.

cd <directory> change to directory. <directory> is the name of the directory to change to. 

cd ~  change to home directory. 

cd ..  change to parent directory. 
For ex. if you are in a\b\c and execute command cd .. you will go to a\b

pwd display the path of the current directory. 

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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 anytime without even an internet connection. The software is fully open source and free and is considered one of the best software for students and people who are really 'Wikipedia' guys.It has been the top downloaded open source software. If you are a tech-savvy you must have it. A recommendation from linuxosr group :) 

Kiwix uses Mozilla framework and is available in about 80 languages. It has full text search, with the option of exporting articles in html or pdf formats. SO, if you want any article of wikipedia for later use, simply export in a pdf format and keep it with you forever. Isn't it great? 

Kiwix is an open source, free software. That means you can freely use it, modify it, share it with your neighbors or whatever you wish to do with it. 

Kiwix is about 22 MB in size and is available for all platforms Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. 

Downloads.

• For Mac OS X user, here is the Link to download.
• Windows user, Download here.
• GNU/Linux user can download Kiwix Here.

The official website of Kiwix is http://www.kiwix.org/
You can get download links, FAQs and forums are there to discuss everything you need or if you have any problem. 

How to read Wikipedia offline. 
Download the Zim file associated with the Wikipedia http://download.kiwix.org/portable/kiwix-0.9-rc2+wikipedia_en_all_nopic_01_2012.zip a zip file containing all the wikipedia contents. This cannot be updated but if you want updated contents, you can download a updated ZIM folder. 

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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 million times at the writing of this article from the sourceforge website. And with almost no effort you can use it as simply as Win-rar. 

Features: 

• High compression ratio in 7z format. 
• Supports a large number of formats including  7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, Z.
• Strong encryption in 7z and zip formats. 
• Integration with windows.
• Available in almost all languages. 79 to be exact. So choose according to your preferences. 
• And a powerful file manager. 

A command line version of 7-zip is available for Linux/unix.

Download.

You can download 7-zip from 7-zip.org website

Its available for Windows 32-bit, 64-bit, windows mobile, command line version, and Linux.

Its source code can be downloaded here.

7-zip has been developed by independent developers for some of the systems like debian, ubuntu, fedora and Mac's. They all can be downloaded from the above link. Select according to your system requirements and preferences. 

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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 serach on all major torrent hosting sites. 
• Includes a RSS feed downloader. 
• Available for all platform. 
• Small and uses very little memory and CPU.
• Downloading can be done by adding download torrents to queue. 
• Directly competes with utorrent and other paid torrent clients.

Warning. Hosting or Downloading copyrighted contents from torrents is copyright violation. We Linuxosr do not appreciate it. By the way, there is always an alternative in free world for the paid softwares you download from torrents. 

What is basically a torrent client.  
A torrent client is small software which is used to download torrent files to your system. There are various websites which hosts torrents, including movies, games, softwares, or virtually anything. Most of the torrents are copyrighted by the owner. We dont recommend you to download any other copyrighted material from them. A torrent client manages all the sedd/peers activities and ensures a high speed downloading along with resume capability and download anytime anywhere facility. 

There are different torrent clients, some of them include utorrent, bittorrent, vuze. They all have a free version with limited capabilities restricting download limits or asking you to pay for there extra features. 
But qBittorent is a complete Free, Open Source torrent client with you been provided full features without any payment. It is developed by a group of young programmers who took it as a free time work. But that dont mean its not as competent. Try yourself.

Download. 

You can download qBittorrent from the qBittorrent website. 

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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 by hundreds of peoples, their time should be free? A simple stand alone software needs hundreds of men, working for hours to be completed. And its released free, that too with the assurance that anyone can modify it according to their needs and can share it with their friends without paying a penny. 
• The open source and free software start competing directly to the proprietary softwares in the market, thus affecting their sales and the efforts of those employees are then not evaluated exactly. 
• Does the 'availability' of source code really need to be there along with freedom to use and share? Why the already completed existing software need to be modified? 
• Source code availability of Linux is one of the factors of a large number of its distributions, which according to some, has affected negatively in competing to Microsoft Windows. 
• Its surely is not for new-bees. A not-so-technical people will find most of the open source thing difficult to handle.

Well in fact, the positive part of open source is almost the same as negative. Lets get to it. 

• Everything is free. Starting from a few kb's you tube down loader to even a full working operating system. 
• The loop holes, bugs and security failures are corrected in less time since the source code is available and all the interested programmers use up their brains to get rid of it. 
• Provides a platform to a geek to learn going through the original codes in which the software is written. 
• Everything is free. No need to buy softwares, games, drivers for your system to run. The overall software costs will may increase the overall hardware cost if you go by the paid software.
• Often, the software or even the Linux OS in itself is difficult to operate. But who the hell want it to be easy? 

Give your points in the comments. Lets have a healthy discussions. I know I missed many points. 
why Linux. have already been discussed in previous posts. 

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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. It has a very fast execution speed and requires very low memory space to run. 

Features of notepad++: 

• Syntax highlighting.
• Auto-completion. The words, functions or syntax are automatically completed. 
• Using different tabs for multiple documents. That means working on different documents at the same time.
• Zoom in and Zoom out feature. 
• An entirely customizable Graphical user interface. You can customize notepad++ according to you needs and as per your requirements. 

If you are a coder, you must need it. 

You can look at some of the more "technical" features at the Notepad++ website http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

You can find download links, source codes, and news related to the notepad++ community. 

By the way, for your quick reference, 

here is the download links for the latest version of notepad++ npp.6.2.3.Installer.exe.

Here is the source code for geeks, npp.6.2.3.src.7z.

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