Canonical sometimes listens to its user base, while other times simply it goes straight on its way. This has happened for the graphic environment of Unity (regret by many!) and the same is happening for several technological implementations in the latest revisions of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Snap is a magnificent idea with a still immature realization. It is[…]
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Stop asking password when mounting another internal hard drive on Linux
Whenever I change the operating system or update, we find that in order to access the additional internal hard drives in our machines, we must necessarily type the administrator password. How boring! Let’s see how to overcome this annoying procedure and how to stop the operating system from asking password when mounting another internal hard drive on Linux. First of[…]
Read moreThe new Transmission Bit Torrent. File sharing at maximum
A new version of the open-source TransmissionBT torrent client is available to download and ready to push your file-sharing system to a new level. This is the first major update for the wide-spread torrent client and it comes with a batch of overdue bug fixes, feature enhancements, and compatibility improvements. Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is completely open-source[…]
Read moreMinetest. A Minecraft-inspired game for Linux
Minetest, an infinite-world block open-source Minecraft style game with many games, that gives you the ability to mod a game to your liking, to make your own game, or to play on a multiplayer server. Minecraft was created by Markus “Notch” Persson in the Java programming language and was released as a public alpha for personal computers in 2009 before[…]
Read morePop!_OS. Ubuntu without the Snap system
Ubuntu is certainly, with good credit, one of the most popular Linux distributions and one of the ones that most contributed to the spread of Linux in the desktop world. Unfortunately, as we well know, in the latest Ubuntu releases the Snap package system is by default which, despite all the good intentions of this world, is still far from[…]
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