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Vagrant 1.8 has been released. Comes with support for linked clones and snapshots.

Wine is a software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that makes it possible to run Microsoft Windows applications on such systems.

When the final, stable edition is released, Manjaro Linux 15.12 will be code-named Capella, and the KDE edition will ship with KDE Plasma 5.5, so the following screenshots should give you a sneak preview of that edition of KDE Plasma 5.

So despite all the browser tools and options that can be deployed and tweaked to give a browser a less unique fingerprint, nothing seems to make any real difference. And from what I’ve seen so far, the more plugins installed and the more options enabled/disabled, the more unique your browser becomes. It’s like getting your phone? number on a “Do Not Call” list.

Worried about privacy?, about the websites you visit tracking you, whether you accept their cookies or not?

Panopticlick to the rescue!

elementary OS Freya 0.3.2 is mostly a bugfix release, with a couple of new features. The most notable refinement takes care of issues associated with booting and installation on computers with UEFI firmware and Restricted Boot (more commonly known as Secure Boot).

At a time when security is foremost in the minds of most people in this digital age, that feature is a must-have for any modern database application that aims to offer complete data security.

In this article, you’ll find a few screenshots from a test installation of Linux Mint 17.3 MATE. Screenshots from a test installation of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon are available here.

After a 3-day delay due to website-related issues, the Linux Mint development ream has finally made the official announcement – Linux Mint 17.3 has been released for you to download?, use and enjoy.

In the area of technical support?, it’s nothing new, but it’s the first time I can recall seeing it integrated in the control center of a Linux distribution. And the integration, like almost every aspect of what I’ve seen on Deepin 15 alpha 2, is smooth.

I don’t know when the stable edition will be released, so while we wait, here are some screeshots from a test installation to showcase some of the features of this wonderfully-made Linux desktop distribution.

Markpado is a lightweight Markdown text editor for KDE. It’s actually a component of Marketo, a note-taking application? for KDE.

One of those features is shown in Figure 1. Though technically not a part of the installation program itself, this gives you the option of booting into the Live desktop or to the UEFI shell. If you have a sense of adventure, the UEFI shell can be fun to muck around in, though be careful not to run a command that can mess something up.

It’s about the size of a candy bar and as you can already guess from its name, it runs Google’s Chrome OS, the same Cloud-based operating system that powers Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.

Though a great idea and project, Calamares does not yet have support for disk encryption? and LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, two features that are supported by Thus, the graphical installer that Calamares replaced.

If you spend a great deal of time at the Linux command line, you need a good shell terminal application, ideally one that has support for tabs and split screens.

Like the main edition of Fedora and other Spins, Fedora 23 Xfce uses the Anaconda installer, which, feature-wise, is one of the best available in Linuxland, though the UI could use a little bit more user-friendliness.

Together with the default Fedora edition, which uses the GNOME 3 desktop, and the Spins, Fedora editions that use other desktop environments, the beta 1 installation images were released three days ago.

This short post is for those running a system on which Windows 7 or 8 (or 8.1) is installed in dual-boot fashion with one or more Linux distributions. If you have such a system and are wondering whether the integrity of the Linux side will survive an upgrade to Windows 10, well, it depends.

Today’s review is of BackBox 4.3, the latest edition, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 and ships with its own suite of security-focused applications. This puts it in the same niche as CAINE, Deft and Kali.