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Igelle – Lightweight Operating System for portable computers

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:06:07 +0000

Igelle is a light weight and modern operating system build entirely for portable computers .

Appearance and Ease of use : Igelle offers a light and pleasant appearance with panels similar to Gnome. Igelle is packed with nice animations which donot disturb the user but also adds lightness to the system.Panels and dock offers easy usability.

Software Management and Settings: Epiphany is the standard webbrowser for Igelle. It even offers firefox installation,if the user demands it from add/remove .Other applications that are available for installation in a few clicks, are XChat, Mplayer, and dozens of other things. Igelle supports wine, which enables you to emulate windows programs.

Overall : Igella is a simple operating system with less settings and options, and highly extensible. In my opinion, this system is a nice competitor for Ubuntu Linux. Its simplicity surpasses them in everyday activities, like installing applications without a password.

Visit official website : http://www.igelle.com/

Is ArchLinux, the Linux distro you searched for ?

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:21:03 +0000

If you are a person who have tried many linux distros and couldn’t find the one you needed , then your search has come to an end . ArchLinux would be the answer to your searches . Arch Linux is a highly customizable linux which comes around at 360 mb .iso file , which includes all files needed for a harddisk install . If you are opting for net install or ftp install , then there are ways of doing it too . Arch Linux by default doesnot have a graphical interface . You can choose the graphical interface according to your wish , whether it be gnome , kde, fluxbox , xfce , enlightment and lot more . You can find a nice step by step tutorial which shows you how to install archlinux and customize the archlinux the way that suits it .As you know your desktop manager uses a large portion of your system resources . So choice of desktop environment is of great importance as one can make a linux distro which may be slow and flashy or fast and ugly .

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Arch Linux offers support for almost all file systems like ext4 , ext3 , ext2, xfs, jfs , and much more . ArchLinux is great as it takes you out of the hassels of dependencies and libraries . ArchLinux by default , comes with a nice package manager called pacman , which is capable of updating and installing all softwares and applications . Compared to other linux distros , rather than compiling from source packages , archlinux installs from pre-made binaries .ArchLinux offers extreme customization and you can modify it to suit your daily needs . There are a lot of distros based on archlinux . Here is a page that lists out them . Archlinux is perfect for everyone with “do it ourselves” character. ArchLinux is one of the fastest linux distros , especially when run in console . Updating of software packages is done perfectly in archlinux servers too , which provides users with uptodate softwares and applications . Download links and guide to installation can be found in arch official website .

Believe me archlinux is simply a magnificent distro and it is worth a try . I assure you that you will definitely fall in love with archlinux . Feel the joy of tweaking your machine and modifying it the way you need . Happy tweaking …..

Beginners Guide to ArchLinux Installation and Customization

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:00:14 +0000

Arch Linux is a highly customizable Linux Distro which is easy to setup and use . Arch Linux is mainly meant for persons with the mentality ” Do it ourselves ” . I was also one of them who tried to install Arch Linux in my computer and atlast succeded in installing this highly customized Linux distribution . As I have seen in many forums that , Arch Linux is not meant for beginners made me to write this post . First thing you need to know is that ” Don’t Panic “. According to me Arch Linux Beginners Guide is a complete perfect , guide to install Arch Linux . It is always better to follow it than to watch any videos , demonstrating how to install Arch Linux . It is because your computer configuration may be different to what is seen in the video .For those who are not having enough time for reading the whole stuff , here is a series of videos which shows how to install and configure Arch Linux in easy steps, . Watch it , feel free to post your questions and comments .

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Light weight desktop in linux

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:53:37 +0000

Most of the linux users use either KDE or Gnome desktop environments. Apart from those two,there are many desktop environments available for your linux. LXDE is a definitely one to mention here. The “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment” claims to be an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.It comes with an eye candy interface , keyboard shortcuts support and additional features like tabbed file browsing.It curbs very little of your CPU and RAM.It can be very effective when your system resources are limited especially in case of cloud computing.It can be easily installed and configured in Ubuntu. If you are using Ubuntu 9.04 or above then you have LXDE repositories by default.

Installation

If you are using Ubuntu 9.04 or above then take the command line and type in

sudo aptitude install lxde

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Play Your Favourite Windows Game In Linux

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Yes,I know you need to move to Linux from windows ,but scared of doing it, as you will miss your favourite applications and games in Windows. Here is wine to rescue you.It is an emulator for linux to run windows specific applications.Dive in to know how to do it ..

1.Boot your linux and login.

2.Open your terminal and type sudo apt-get install wine.

3.It asks for your root password ,enter the password .

4.Type y to continue with download and install .

5.After the installation is completed, close the terminal.

The other way to install wine.

1.Launch your favourite browser and go to www.winehq.org/download.

2.Select your Distro and click ok to download the file.

3.Open the file with the package Installer (For Ubuntu it is Debian Package Installer) and walk through the installation process.

After Installation

1.Select the application you wish to install.

2.Choose Open With… and select Wine .

3.Your Windows application should initiate.

4.Do whatever you want with your favouite application.

Point to note: Wine is not 100% perfect ,some advanced programs may not work with it.Here is the page that displays the programs that are supported by wine .http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&sTitle=Browse

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BEST NETWORK ANALYSIS TOOLS

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:10:20 +0000

A packet sniffer is a software that can block and analyse traffic passing through a network or subnetwork As data stream flow across the network, the sniffer captures each packet and eventually decodes and analyzes its content according to the appropriate RFC or other specifications.Here we bring you a list of the most popular sniffers used for network analysis.Here are first four tools are mainly meant for Linux Network security , while Cain and Abel is a windows only version.

1.Nmap

works on linux,windows,solaris and bsd.Nmap is a “Network Mapper”, used to discover computers and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network. Just like many simple port scanners, Nmap is capable of discovering passive services on a network despite the fact that such services aren’t advertising themselves with a service discovery protocol. In addition Nmap may be able to determine various details about the remote computers like operating system,firewall,details about lan card etc.

2.Wireshark

Wireshark is a open source network protocol analyzer for both Unix and Windows.it is also known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006 You can interactively browse the capture data, delving down into just the level of packet detail you need. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a suprb display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. It also supports thousands of protocols and media types. A tcpdump-like console version named tethereal is included. problem with wireshark is that it itself has many exploitable security loopholes

3.Tcpdump

Tcpdump was the most popular sniffer before the Wireshark came into market.Eventhough it has no good graphical interface it has less security holes and so more efficient than wireshark It also requires less system resources. While it doesn’t receive new features often, it is actively maintained to fix bugs and portability problems. It is great for tracking down network problems or monitoring activity.

4.Dsiff

it is actually a suite of networking tools like dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy.Excelent for password sniffing and man in middle attack.

5.Cain and Abel

It is a windows only tool for a variety of network testing tasks.It can recover passwords by sniffing the network, crack encrypted passwords using rainbow Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, decrypting password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.it has a good GUI interface