Korora project

Korora was born out of a desire to make Linux easier for new users, while still being useful for experts.

Originally based on Gentoo Linux in 2005, Korora was re-born in 2010 as a Fedora Remix1 with tweaks and extras to make the system “just work” out of the box.

Why Fedora? Lots of reasons!

Comparison to Fedora

Korora is a Fedora Remix, meaning it ships packages from the default Fedora repositories but also a number of other packages (often ones that Fedora cannot ship directly). We also make changes to the default system, whereas Fedora generally sticks to upstream. For new users, Fedora can be tricky because it doesn't include many of the extras that users often need, things like media codecs and some proprietary software. This is one area where Korora can help.

Ultimately, we want people just like you to become useful members of the Fedora community and we hope that trying Korora will be a catalyst for this.

For a detailed look at how Korora differs to Fedora, see What's Inside.

Desktops

Korora comes in a few installable versions which include the Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, MATE and Xfce desktops.

Cinnamon

GNOME

KDE

MATE

Xfce

Default applications

Korora sets the default applications to those that we believe end users typically want. For example, Firefox is the default web browser (instead of Konqueror in KDE and Epiphany in GNOME, for example) and VLC is the default media player (instead of Dragon Player in KDE and Totem in GNOME, for example). There is generally one popular program installed for each task, although alternatives (such as the Google Chrome web browser) are available via the package manager for a quick install.

We have a license to distribute Adobe Flash so this is now included by default.

Package repositories

Korora also pre-configures a number of third party repositories, making it easier to install the additional software that most people use. These include:

Adobe Flash
DropBox
Google Chrome, Google Earth and Google Talkplugin
RPMFusion
VirtualBox

This means that more software which is not normally available on Fedora is available to install out of the box on Korora.

Third party driver support

Korora includes a tool called Pharlap (Jockey in release 19 and earlier) for simple installation of third party drivers such as those for NVIDIA graphics cards and certain wireless devices.

Korora also comes with all the development tools and kernel headers you need to easily install out of tree kernel modules, such as those required by VirtualBox. These modules are automatically built when you get a new kernel update thanks to Dynamic Kernel Module Support.

Goals

Korora hopes to provide a complete, easy to use system for general computing which is assisted by the following:
Support for as much hardware as possible
End user desired applications as defaults (e.g. Firefox over Konqueror)
Ability to play all media out of the box using free software, wherever possible
Target specific applications for tasks with as little bloat as possible
Provide simple means to get support
Provide guides on how to use the system
Build a little community of happy Linux users


1 Korora is not provided or supported by the Fedora Project. Official, unmodified Fedora software is available through the Fedora Project website.

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Rebecca

Linux Mint 17.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use.

Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca"KDE Edition

KDE 4.14

The previous version of Linux Mint used KDE 4.13. In this release, KDE is upgraded to version 4.14.

For an exhaustive list of KDE improvements, please visit:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.14
KWallet Integration

Support was added in MDM and in the session for the KDE wallet to be fully integrated with Linux Mint.

Although a Wallet Manager is present for configuration purpose, no interaction is needed for the KDE wallet to work.

The wallet is created automatically with your first login, and it opens automatically in the background with every new session.
Update Manager
More meaningful updates

The Update Manager now groups packages together according to their source package. A line no longer represents a single package but a software update which consists in one or several packages.

When a developer fixes a bug or writes new features, the source code is modified and all packages which are related to it become available under a new version. It is therefore futile and sometimes dangerous to apply some package updates and not others within the same source package.

In the screenshot below, the Update Manager shows 10 software updates. These updates represent a total of 70 packages. The LibreOffice update is selected and the Update Manager shows the 22 packages it contains. At the bottom of the screen, the Mesa update contains 18 packages, some of which are known to break your system if you were to apply them individually.

More meaningful software updates

By grouping these updates the Update Manager prevents you from applying incomplete updates while making it easier for you to review them (updates make more sense and there's far less than before to review).
Kernel selection

As more and more kernels become available, the kernel selection screen was redesigned to quickly let you review known security fixes and known regressions:

Kernel selection in the Update Manager

Other improvements

Short descriptions were added. Both short and long descriptions now appear in your own language.

The main window no longer hides after installing updates.

Proxy support was added for the retrieval of changelog information.
Login Screen
Visual improvements

The Login Window Preferences were redesigned:

The Login Window preferences

The new layout features icons in the sidebar to access the different categories of settings.

The concept of "greeters" was confusing to users so it was replaced by a simpler theme selection. All themes (HTML and GDM) as well as the GTK greeter are now available from the same list.

A preview button, to quickly visualize the active theme, was added.
Under the hood improvements

The session output is now limited to 200KB (between 2000 and 4000 lines of logs), to prevent warning spam issued by toolkits, libraries or programs from filling up the .xsession-errors file, sometimes resulting in loss of performance, lack of HDD space, or the inability to log in.

The session output can also be filtered, to prevent warnings and errors from GTK, Glib, Gio, Gobject, Glade etc… from getting into .xsession-errors.

Note that the session output limit is enabled by default and the session output filtering is disabled by default. Both options are available in the MDM Setup tool.

In the login screen, touchpad taps are now disabled while the user is typing.
System improvements

Linux Mint 17.1 features the following system changes:
A new pastebin command was introduced. You can pipe a command into it or simply give it a filename. The text is then available online for 2 days:
echo "Hello World!" | pastebin
pastebin myfile.txt
The 'search' command now uses the current folder by default, so these three commands are now the same:
search in . for somekeyword
search for somekeyword in .
search for somekeyword
The 'apt' commands now feature bash completion
Artwork improvements

The default MDM theme for the login screen now features a slideshow. Additional HTML themes were also installed by default, including some of the great retro-looking themes from Sam Riggs, a new modern theme from Philipp Miller and some flat themes from Bernard.

All the backgrounds since the previous LTS

There are backgrounds galore in Linux Mint 17.1. All the backgrounds since the previous LTS (Maya, Nadia, Olivia, Petra, Qiana) were added, as well as a nostalgic selection of the best backgrounds from the early days of Linux Mint. You'll even find the notorious Dew background from Linux Mint 7 Gloria in there :)
Other improvements

The USB Image Writer now shows the percentage of completion in its titlebar, so you can minimize it while it's working and see its progress without having to switch back to it.

The Software manager now warns the user much more explicitly than before when an operation is about to remove other packages.

The Software Sources tool now checks the speed of repository mirrors much faster than before and in parallel. It also uses a retry mechanism on timeout and removes erroneous mirrors from the list.

The English version of the Official User Guide was ported to DocBook and is now available from Menu->Help. PDF versions in multiple languages are also still available at http://www.linuxmint.com/documentation.php
Main components

Linux Mint 17.1 features KDE 4.14, MDM 1.8, a Linux kernel 3.13 and an Ubuntu 14.04 package base.
LTS strategy

Linux Mint 17.1 will receive security updates until 2019.

Until 2016, future versions of Linux Mint will use the same package base as Linux Mint 17.1, making it trivial for people to upgrade.

Until 2016, the development team won't start working on a new base and will be fully focused on this one.

Download: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Ubuntu Touch

The Ubuntu Touch platform is very close to the release, and very few people have actually realized what kind of potential it holds. It's open source, it has quite a few apps in the store, it's completely Linux based, and it's designed by a dedicated team. It has the possibility of becoming a real success and it's well under way towards that goal.

Canonical announced a couple of years ago that they had started the work on a new operating system for the mobile platform. The team was doing releases for many years, they had a working OS for TVs and they have dabbled with the idea of putting Ubuntu or the Unity desktop on the phone. In fact, one of their first projects in this direction was called Ubuntu for Android.

Some users might remember their demos that were working from the original Nexus phone. Users would just plug in the device to a monitor and the OS became a full-fledged Linux distribution.

It captured the imagination, and even if nothing really came out of it, the same kind of thinking went into the design of the phone and into the idea of convergence.
Convergence is the future

The idea of convergence is not something new and it meant a different thing two or three years ago. Today it means two things. Developers want to make a single operating system that can run on PCs, tablets, phones, and everything else from a single codebase, and app developers want to make a single apps that can run on all of them.

It might sound like a difficult thing to accomplish, but Ubuntu is already there and this is happening right not. It won't become the norm at least for a couple more years, but there are already apps that can run on different platforms without modifications.

Ubuntu Touch is the tip of the spear for the idea of convergence and it will be the first operating system out there with this kind of capability. This opens new horizons for the OS, which will be able to run apps that would otherwise be confined to a life on the desktop, with just a minimal implication from its developer.

It's difficult to envision the future of Ubuntu Touch as a successful platform and I'm guessing that its developers are having the same difficulties. They know a lot more about the project and about its capabilities, but this is a very volatile industry that loves you today and hates you tomorrow.

Canonical now has an opportunity to make a real impact with a product that is radically different from everything else. If you take all of these features together, the convergence, the fact that it's open source, the unique design, and the huge community behind Ubuntu, you will find that there is nothing like it in the entire industry.

This is the main feature of Ubuntu Touch, its uniqueness. It's not the fastest, it doesn't have the most apps, but it has heart and the people who are building it are really passionate and opened about their work. This alone makes it a winner.

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Ubuntu Studio 14.04 LTS - O.S. - all in one for blogger

Ubuntu Studio is a free and open source operative system, and an official flavor ofUbuntu. Ubuntu Studio is the most widely used multimedia orientated GNU/Linuxdistribution in the world. It comes preinstalled with a selection of the most common freemultimedia applications available, and is configured for best performance for the Ubuntu Studio defined workflows: Audio, Graphics, Video, Photography and Publishing.
Ubuntu Studio is a community effort, created by volunteers, targeted towards all skill levels, from beginner to pro, and aims to be easy to install and easy to use, as well as provide all the tools nessecary for any type of media content creation.

AUDIO:

Ubuntu Studio makes available some of the most popular and recently updated audio software in the Linux world.

JACK - is a low latency capable audio and midi server, designed for pro audio use. It enables all Jack capable applications to connect to each other. A common program for controlling the jack server is Qjackctl (shown in the picture below).

ARDOUR - Audio and MIDI Multi-Track Recording and Editing. Any number of tracks and busses. Non-linear editing. Non-destructive (and destructive!) recording. Any bit depth, any sample rate. Dozens of file formats.

Sequencers and Synthesizers - Ubuntu Studio comes installed with other notable applications such as:

Audacity – Audio Wave Editor

Qtractor – midi capable DAW

Hydrogen – Drum machine / Sequencer

Yoshimi – Software Synthesizer

VIRTUAL GUITAR AMPS - Rakarrack (preinstalled) and Guitarix are two popular guitar amp simulators.

JACK SESSION - Gladish will enable you to start applications, make connections between them, and save the whole configuration to file. Gladish is also an alternative to Qjackctl.

AUDIO PROGRAMMING - There are numerous easy to use audio programming environments available to Ubuntu Studio, such as the preinstalled puredata. Others are installable, such as supercollider, csound and chuck.

GRAPHICS:

BLENDER - is a full fledged 3D content creation suite. You can create 3D models and animate scenes. Blender also has its’ own game engine and is vastly expandable with addons.

INKSCAPE - is a superb vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

GIMP - stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program, and is a similar to Photoshop.

MyPaint - is a digital painting tool, designed to work with graphic tablets. It comes with a large collection of brushes, including ink and charcoal.

VIDEO:

OPENSHOT - is a simple video editor for Linux. Add videos, photos and music to create DVD’s, youtube clips and a range of other formats.

FFMPEG - is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.

DVDStyler - to create custom, professional looking DVD’s.

PHOTOGRAPHY:

DARKTABLE - is a photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.

SHOTWELL - to organize your library of photos.

PUBLISHING:

CALIBRE - is a popular program that makes things easy for new users by providing excellent templates for common formats, such as kindle, various types of tablets and other hardware readers, and a lot more.

SCRIBUS - which will let you creat professional PDF publications. There are some nice templates for posters, business cards, brochures and more.

LibreOffice Writer - you can create the text, and save in any format you like. Including MS Office formats, as well as export to PDF.

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Google I/O in San Francisco

At Google I/O in San Francisco, the company previews new design and new user interface features for Android. Dubbed "L", the mobile OS will give users a new look and feel, enhanced notifications, and better performance.

Linux Mint 17 - Qiana released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” MATE RC.

Linux Mint 17 is a long term support release which will be supported until 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:

• Update Manager
• Drivers Manager
• Login Screen
• Language Settings
• Software Sources
• Welcome Screen
• MATE 1.8
• System Improvements
• Artwork Improvements
• Main Components
• LTS Strategy

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 17 MATE“.

Important info:

• Login screen freezes for German speaking users
• NVIDIA Optimus cards do not work (yet)
• EFI Support
• Bluetooth
• PAE required for 32-bit ISOs
• Other issues

Make sure to read the “Release Notes” to be aware of important info or known issues related to this release.

System requirements:

• x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors).
• 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
• 5 GB of disk space (20GB recommended).
• Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution (1024×768 recommended).
• CD/DVD drive or USB port

Bug reports:

• Please report bugs below in the comment section of this blog.
• Please visit https://github.com/linuxmint/Roadmap to follow the progress of the development team between the RC and the stable release.

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• Australia uberglobal
• Australia Western Australian Internet Association
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• Bangladesh IS Pros Limited
• Belarus ByFly
• Belgium Cu.be Solutions
• Brazil Universidade Federal do Parana
• Bulgaria Telepoint
• Canada University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
• China HUST
• China Qiming College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• China University of Science and Technology of China Linux User Group
• Czech Republic CZ.NIC
• Czech Republic Ignum, s.r.o.
• Czech Republic MaxCDN
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• France finn.lu
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• France IRCAM
• France Ordimatic
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• Germany GWDG
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• Poland Piotrkosoft
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• Slovakia Rainside
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• USA mirrorcatalogs.com
• USA Nexcess
• USA PSGNet
• USA Secution, LLC.
• USA Team Cymru
• USA University of Maryland, College Park
• USA University of Oklahoma
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