It shows that my article about the CUTI was placed at the right time because there were no new posts afterwards. Today I am going to write two different pieces of news:
1) Number two (the third number) of HD Magazine
This new edition counts as a highlight an interview by Eugenia Bahit with Richard Stallman, in addition to having the following items:
1. Prevention of brute force attacks and Man in the Middle
2. Backups: I always remember them when they are not there!
3. Arduino: OpenSource Philosophy
4. NoSQL Special: Introduction to NoSQL and cloud services
5. NoSQL special: internal structure, code and context.
6. Scratch: Imagine, program, share.
7. PHP Web Application Security Guide
8. Patterns and design anti-patterns What are they for?
9. Experimenting with matplotlib and other "yuyos"
10. MVC Manual: (2) Dynamic Views and Templates
11. Go GNU / Linux with Arch Linux: Part II
12. Analyzing Apache access logs
13. Oooh!
2) The ranking of Distrowatch Part 2012
We already know that it is not a very reliable ranking, but it is taken as an equal reference for certain things.
Mint remains comfortable in 1st place for the second year in a row, Mageia shoots up and snatches second place from Ubuntu (which falls to third), completing the top 10: Fedora, OpenSuse, Debian, Arch, PCLinuxOS, CentOS and Puppy. Snowlinux, Pear, SolusOS and ROSA are shown as the best debuts (all 4 in the top 25)
Excellent, third issue of Hackers and Developers, and distrowatch… I still don't know, I can't figure out how Mageia can take second place. Even the name does not sound.
And Arch is in seventh place ¬¬
But Well, as the editor said, it is not very reliable.
Great for HD M. Reading ...
A pity I mess with Arch but I found: Netrunner; the future Kubuntu !!!
Mageia !!! uuuuu I could write well.
Happy start to the year!!!!!!!
Thanks for the first post, I use Mint KDE because of everything I tried it was the most simple and "malleable", although I wanted to leave Pear or ROSA, not to forget Fuduntu that works perfect for netbooks, I tried it in several and the result is magnificent.
Help:
I want to do my formatting of the year to leave a stable and easy-to-use distro, I want to ask you without passion or fanaticism to recommend a distro for a Samsung RV408 laptop with 6 GB RAM that I use to navigate, watch movies, listen to music and work in Write , Impress and PDF and some other image retouching.
And for all of you, I wish you that in 2013 you can realize your dreams.
Ubuntu 12.04.1, the future Fedora 18 and Arch are the ones I recommend.
@Ghermain
Arch is recontra comfortable to use, manage and learn, by far the simplest of all current distros, however having a relatively small community - compared to distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian or even openSUSE - makes it Many times to achieve the desired functionality you have to learn to do it on your own, which is not a problem if you have a lot of free time (rather it is an advantage because it forces you to learn by force!). However, and in contrast to some huge communities (I'm not going to give names!) Although Arch's is small, it is a community of people who know a lot (A LOT), very much in the style of the Gentoo, Debian or Slack communities.
If you like KDE SC and have time to configure and optimize your machine, install Arch, you will not regret it, it is excellent, up-to-date software in a solid, fast (very fast), modern and hyper-light distro. If you are looking for something canned where everything works from the beginning I think that Linux Mint KDE SC is an excellent option (for me better than Kubuntu itself) and you will ensure full compatibility with Ubuntu, no less data.
The only big problem with Linux Mint or any other * buntu is the issue of PPAs: to have current software on a * buntu you always end up adding PPAs since the distro updates the versions of the installed programs every 6 months (an imbecility already that on platforms such as Windows or MacOS or Arch Linux itself is continuously updated as soon as the developers declare the version stable).
This means that you may have conflicts to update between versions and that you always have to review the list of PPAs after updating from one version of the system to another since many repositories will be left on the road or will take a variable time to update. to the new version of the buntu.
Greetings and «Happy New Year» 😀
Regarding Arch, if it is very comfortable, using pacman yaourt Aur, which would return me without thinking to Arch. Constant updates or always being at the forefront of arch was the first reason to switch to debian.
I've only been using Debian for a short time and it's a rock 😀
A distro that resembles it and I prefer it is Sabayon, it is at the forefront, not as much as arch but I see it more stable and easier.
Coincidentally, yesterday I had a Sabayon 10 KDE SC marathon!
Pros:
.the environment is very well finished and is generally perfect - there are also always aesthetic tweaks for each user such as deactivating antialiasing, etc.
.Rigo is wonderful, I wish there was something similar in the rest of the GNU / Linux world 😀 - Seriously, I loved it, it is the only necessary stop to stay updated with community news, update your system and install or remove programs. It is nice, comfortable and works very well.
The system bar icon is well integrated and perfectly fulfills its function.
.KDE SC is doing quite well: it's responsive and doesn't feel heavy. For a fair comparison you should test it on real HW instead of a machine. virtual.
As a nerd, what I like the most about Sabayon is the special attention they pay to the kernel and the other security details listed on the download page; these characteristics alone (and that it is 100% Gentoo) already incline me to choose Sabayon over the rest of the distros.
Cons:
.Gentoo is a sweet potato !!!! Please, the Gentoo update system may not be soooooooo, but soooooo desperately slow !!! Once it lowered the 500mbs of update (KDE SC 4.9 to 4.9.4) it took just over an hour to finally update the system.
.Gentoo is astonishingly flexible in that it literally leaves everything up to its user to do what they want with their system ... but Portage is TOO slow, even though the mirrors are updated. In addition, Gentoo complicates the simple and becomes a totally cumbersome system when managing it on a daily basis. Having to create lists of skins, files to update, etc., is cumbersome and pointless.
During the update of the newly installed system, a multitude of errors appeared: http://imgur.com/a/2ESs2
You can see that they have taken great care of Sabayon 10 and that it has been evolving favorably but:
The intrinsic complexity of Gentoo doesn't really add anything to a system like Sabayon where the packages to install are binary and compiling packages from scratch taking advantage of Gentoo's main feature can corrupt the entire system.
.although the result of a custom Gentoo system can be a speedy system (hence the name, Gentoo is the fastest penguin) system installation and maintenance is agony
Finally, about your "betrayal" with Debian:
It is true that sometimes the hectic pace of updates to the system can be dizzying - and even annoying if all we want is a system that works correctly to perform a certain task, however its intrinsic simplicity is what makes it impossible for me abandon it, in addition, once you have the system running as you can continue using it as long as you want without updating it, so you will have exactly the same behavior as with similar non-RR systems =)
At home I have a web and print server that for now uses Ubuntu Server 12.10 (which I installed expressly so as not to rust with Debian / Ubuntu) and although it is very convenient not to have to worry about it other than installing security updates sporadically, each time I have to deal with the system is a near-tragedy (all inherited from Debian):
Why is the directory where the Apache2 files are installed is called apache2 (/ etc / apache2) when the name given to it by upstream is / etc / httpd (a name that Arch respects)?
Also, the system in which Debian shreds the http.conf file and the implementation it makes of symlinks for activated or parking sites is bizarre, who came up with such a genius?
Or for example BIND9, where in Debian the configuration files are divided into three subdirectories instead of all being in / etc as expressly designed by the devs?
Back, exactly the same they do with nginx !!!
It doesn't surprise me that in Debian it takes so long to update the repositories if they manipulate each software they provide in such a way!
Not to mention the deep testing that must be done to check that they work well afterwards!
The other server I have is the muscular one: I use it as a NAS, to compile and above all to run the virtual machines that I access using X2Go (a good alternative to FreeNX although not compatible with the NX-3.5 branch) until I try phpvirtualbox.
That runs Arch (what else!) And even though I use it as a testing ground for everything, it never blew me away. As I am lazy, very lazy, like all the (good, should I say !?) sysadmins and since the computer is not directly connected to the net I update it very sporadically and reading the news about the updates is enough to keep up to date. Finally, I never update applications that are doing well even if new versions are released, if it works, why change? It is different if the new version of these programs brings functions that interest me, in that case I test them in a VM and if they work well I dump them to the system although sometimes I wait directly a couple of months to see the feedback from the community and save myself testing them on my own.
Greetings and have - have everyone! - an excellent 2013!
I downloaded according to your recommendation to try Arch and it made a mess of startup, it asks me for password and other things ... How can I recommend to a newcomer from W $ a distro that I couldn't even install? What I seek is to attract people to Linux, not that they continue to see it as something complicated and difficult to use. Thanks for your explanation and good intentions.
Greetings and Happy New Year 😀
By chance, I installed sabayon X on my parents' laptop (remove win7).
It was installed in 10 min, it was updated in 30 min (487 packages), I detect all the hw. It's a 10 😀 distro
"Gentoo is slow" Yes, but its stability makes up for it. That's what I say 😀
Speed aside, gentoo is totally amazing.
It is to wear a tailored suit and it will be adjusted to your needs.
Hahaha I betrayed Debian, it may be, I've been using arch for 3 years and I came to consider it the best Linux distro.
Now that the holidays are over (I have 2 weeks left: O) I am looking for a distro, where I do not fight with the system or have problems due to an installation. (For that I have Windows hahahahaha I'm kidding.)
With arch I got to have 2 or 4 updates where I reinstalled the system, now I tried to install arch and for the video card, it does not allow me. (It is ATI, the terror of all linux). And really, Arch had me fed up.
Despite its complications, debian gets along with my desktop pc. Although I'm thinking of installing gentoo 😀
I'm also trying Slackware, but I'm not entirely convinced.
So far debian and sabayon have made me very happy.
Although there is a saying among the Archers.
«Once installed, you always come back» and it has happened to me many times 😀
Thanks ... I don't like Ubuntu, I prefer Kubuntu, Fedora complicates me with partitions and .rpm and Arch when it starts installing it asks me for a password and other things that as a newbie I can't handle, what I'm looking for is a distro that I can install and use easily and also recommend by example (that is, showing it) to those who want to divorce W $.
Ahhh ah, I didn't know you were making the change and inducing new followers to the Bright side !! (the dark side is Windows, you know!).
Totally agree with you then, personally I started with Ubuntu and because I like technology at the time I switched to Arch. Actually after a while from Ubuntu (7.04 to 9.04, I think) I wanted to migrate to KDE and I waited for version 9.10 since in the previous ones it was not going well.
Kubuntu 9.10 proved to be just as disastrous as all previous versions and after 2 weeks I began to thoroughly check all the DistroWatch.com distros. When I discovered Arch (by chance since it wasn't on the list at the time, I think) I fell in love with the KISS concept of the distro and decided to install it to test KDE since what I was looking for in principle was a distro that would run KDE well.
Just at that time Arch was making the change from KDEmod (which later became Chakra) to full-KDE so when I installed it and checked how well KDE was doing compared to the rest of the distros I had tested I knew there was something special.
Over time I got to know the system in depth and at the same time I started working on systems with other distros and I realized the wonderful simplicity of Arch.
In your particular case, I think there are two fundamental distros for you to try and that meet the characteristics you are looking for:
1. let everything go !!
2. make them easy to install
3. make them easy to use
4. Make them eye-catching and attract new audiences.
elementary OS and Linux Mint, both based on Ubuntu and binary compatible, that is to say that the .DEB prepared for Ubuntu can be used without problems in these distros.
In the case of elementary OS, it is based on Ubutnu 12.04 LTS and has support for five years. The distro follows the concept of Apple with its MacOS: to provide powerful applications but with the right and necessary options that most users use every day. In this way, the distro has its own applications that look sooo but very good, and as each application lacks a "suffocating" amount of options, end users find the distro very usable since they are not "lost" in the system. I installed this distro for my sister. on his notebook, he had Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon and he said «how cute !!! go barbarian! nothing to do with what I had installed before, it seems prehistoric next to this, thanks !!! »
Linux Mint: The gossips say that Linux Mint is "Ubuntu well done" although the reality is that while Ubuntu continues to grow by leaps and bounds and is in complete evolution in Mint they are dedicated to stabilizing Ubuntu and providing a more traditional user experience.
There are several versions of Linux Mint that you can install according to the HW capabilities of the user's machine, but without a doubt the most striking are Cinnamon (based on GNOME 3 and in active development) and KDE SC.
Particularly the version of KDE SC of Linux Mint, now for 4.9.4, that is to say the last, is excellent and looks very good, very neat, very polished, in fact it works better than Kubuntu itself and I recommend it over Kubuntu since this last distro is like the story of the good pipe: always missing 20 ctvs. for the weight: Q thing that in Linux Mint you do not notice and that in addition to appearing some bug they solve it as soon as possible, they do not wait for the next version.
If there is something that I will always thank Kubuntu for, it is for having made me know Arch back in 9.10 after having let me down with all the previous versions. If Kubuntu had been doing well, it would probably be in Arch today but I would definitely recommend it ...
Ahhhh yeah, I didn't know you haven't been at this for long. Generally, what I show my friends from Windows is Fedora KDE, and sometimes they are perplexed, I have already migrated 3 of my colleagues completely to Linux, several are already testing. Regarding complications, I recommend as @msx Linux Mint, Elementary, and others like SolusOS, PCLinuxOS say. My advice is that if you gain experience, if over time you want to learn, give Archlinux a taste, I was hooked.
@Ghermain, if it goes well, use Kubuntu. I recommend that you follow these instructions for that Samsung:
http://blueleaflinux.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/linux-en-tu-samsung.html
For those daily tasks you could opt for the same Ubuntu or some other variant of it that includes audio codecs and others that make your work easier on your pc;)!
Regards!
Very kind of you but for my taste and the newcomers of W $ Ubuntu it seems very "flat" instead any distro with KDE, that one we are passionate about.
I have in list Pear Linux (MAC and light environment), Rosa (although sometimes it does not recognize the admin; I think I will discard it) and Linux Mint 14 KDE. In "soaking" Sabayon and Chakra but I don't like the mini partitions that they make with some programs like Firefox, LibreOffice, Thunderbird and other non-free ones, so much "disk" that it does by program looks horrible.
It strikes me that Manjaro is not on the list. It will be because it is still very new.
Thanks for the magazine. Reading!! 🙂
And happy new year !!
Manjaro was in 52
It's still way down, but I hope it goes up. He deserves it. They have done a great job improving the usability of arch.
It is very low in the annual table, but in the 6-month table it is in the 24 and in the 3 months in the 17
Thank you very much Diazepan for the information, good reading to start the year.
mmm If I had to put a popularity ranking ...
1st Ubuntu
2nd Mint
3rd Fedora
4th Opensuse
5th Debian
6th Arch
I love my Arch Linux with XFCE, now I'm in an Apple store
Happy shopping in 2013.
Without a doubt, Chakra u Sabayon;)!
PS: Thanks for the Magazine!
Happy New Year to all!
Regards!
I have them "soaking" but I don't like the way it creates so much mini disk per non-free application.
Ufff! 5 days without posting anything. I was already getting cute ...
Hehehe I don't care too. Acute lecturitis, without a doubt this blog has something addictive in the design or in the posts. After a while they somehow introduce subliminal images during the page load and thus make us want to enter XD.
Excellent information as always and to start the year.
I wanted to tell you that, looking for a KDE distro to leave on my notebook; a person who works a lot with computer science told me not to look any more for Kubuntu, Mint, OpenSuse, Chakra, Mageia, Sabanyon, etc ... to install Netrunner (http://www.netrunner-os.com/) because it is the ace up the sleeve of BlueSystems, and that they have hired programmers to dedicate full time to polishing it.
I looked for info through google and it seems that this boy is quite right; so I downloaded 12.12 from x64, installed it and I was amazed at how stable and fast it works, with low resource consumption, it recognizes all hardware, and installs only the necessary applications (LibreOffice, Gimp, Wine, Skype, VLC , to name a few) the rest you put it to your needs, in addition to a very polished aesthetic.
It is worth trying it and as always let us see your very sensible comments.
A Magic Hug.
The last time I checked NetRunner it was nothing more than a face-washed Kubuntu and an arbitrary selection of GTK packages to cover existing Qt program tasks, well, a barbaric hodgepodge; yes, he had a respect for his father distro from the moment he had imported all its bugs and defects !!
Did you like NetRunner more than Linux Mint (even both projects collaborate reciprocally)?
Good review, thanks for the tip!
Well, if I liked it more than Mint and Kubuntu itself, and although they all go hand in hand with BlueSystem, the latest version 12.12 of Netrunner is very fluid.
As my «apostolate» 🙂 for this 2013 is to attract W $ users to Linux, this distribution leaves them speechless, as a newbie I don't understand what it will be (and I apologize for the ignorance) «GTK packages to cover tasks of existing programs in Qt »but for what we need as basic tasks, it fulfills its purpose 100%.
It is true that it had flaws and was very careless but now it is very serious and for something to hire people for that project exclusively.
Briefly:
The two 'toolkits' or 'toolboxes' most used in free software are GTK and Qt.
As a toolbox we define precisely that: a set of tools made up of code libraries, interfaces between programming and the operating system, interfaces between what is programmed and the desktop environment that we are using, etc. Both GTK and Qt are C ++ wrappers, that is, C ++ "wrappers"; This means that each toolkit has functions that make it easier to use C ++ and prevent programmers from writing thousands of lines of redundant code to perform the same tasks.
GNOME (Unity, GNOME / Shell, Cinnamon, Xfce, Lxde, etc.) uses GTK and KDE SC (Razor Qt and the new Be: Shell) use Qt. In this way, GTK has specific functions that need an extra layer to be visually consistent in the KDE environment and so that the KDE environment can also "understand" what the GTK applications are ordering it, the same with Qt applications in the GTK environment.
Now, so that applications written in GTK can be used in KDE SC (and vice versa, Qt applications in GNOME) it is necessary to have installed and load in memory a series of libraries that are the ones that translate the instructions that these applications give to the system.
Since KDE SC is a desktop based on Qt, it is necessary to install such libraries for GTK applications to run on said desktop + the necessary libraries so that there is visual consistency between them, this makes it necessary to use more processing resources (CPU) and memory to run alien applications to the system - ok, nowadays this is almost not a problem with computers using i3,5 or 7 processors and with 4, 6, 8 and up to 16 gigs of memory as is common to see, HOWEVER this YES It is a problem in low-cost home computers such as the new Compaq AIOs since in reality these machines have ATOM processors and no more than 2gb of RAM with integrated graphics cards "less than decent" so a heavy system will affect the overall application performance.
Be careful, for the use that most users give to their machine, which is to navigate Face $ hit and sporadically open a word processor or photo application and listen to music, an AIO with Atom is left over, the issue is when one uses the machine beyond that, you're going to need to either upgrade the software or use lighter systems.
Returning to your query, in the past it is true that due to the KDE SC infrastructure itself, this was always a significantly heavier desktop system than those based on GTK, the difference that today is totally negligible since with the latest versions of Qt it is has managed to balance the performance of KDE SC to that of GNOME - although it is true that KDE SC still consumes a bit more memory than GNOME.
This main difference is due to the reason that drives the existence of each of the two desktops: GNOME, followers of the Apple philosophy for MacOS, seeks to provide the best user experience with the fewest possible options. They adhere to the minimalist doctrine that the less the user has to choose or personalize, the more productive they will be with the use of the system. They are convinced that just by giving them the options "they really need" (note my sneering expression) the user will be fine, in reality they don't need much more and on the contrary presenting them with more options to achieve the same task is counterproductive of the same The way people say "how many books, now I don't know what to take with me!"
And they have some reason.
In fact, for an average user, of those who faceshite it is true that the more options you give them the more you will complicate it, they see computers as magic things, black boxes and as monkeys they know that if they press here such a thing happens and they press There is such another. For these users, the vast majority of end users, a limited system is WAY OUT.
For the rest of us who feel somewhat limited with GNOME (although I personally appreciate the cleanliness and practicality of its applications) there is KDE SC whose position is radically different: «let's give the user as many options as possible and let him choose how he wants to use every aspect of the system.
In this way applications such as Gwenview (the graphics, videos and animations viewer of KDE SC) is far superior to the meager Eye of Gnome, as is the gulf that exists between Dolphin + Nepomuk + Strigi against Nautilus or indeed any other graphic manager of Existing files - in fact Dolphin is today the most powerful and flexible graphical file manager on any platform.
Despite this flexibility that the KDE SC system provides so that the user can accommodate it in their own way of working, and the amount of options provided by each application make it a more complex and heavy system than GNOME, although, as I told you today, the The proverbial heaviness of KDE does not exist today (on modern systems, of course) thanks to the optimization of the Qt 4.8 toolkit.
Finally, while GNOME-based environments are generally static and force the user to learn how to use them and adapt them to their workflow, KDE SC encourages users to find the best way to use it and adapt it to their needs, This is why you can find thousands of desktops running KDE SC and they will all be different while with Xfce or GNOME desktops they will be much more similar.
In my particular case, the administration and main use of the system is done through Yakuake and tmux, so after accommodating certain things such as font size, fonts, antialiases and panel details, I use a fairly traditional KDE SC 🙂
One last feature that I would like to highlight about KDE SC (out of the thousands it has) is the total control it has over the windows: by right clicking on the window frame you access menus where you can define on which desktop the window in question or the entire application, the original size, place of the screen and more than a dozen other parameters.
KDE SC is truly a marvel that provides the user with the ability to build it to their own liking and need.
==== I just reviewed Netrunner to end my comment and I realized that I said a huge nonsense: Netrunner does not mix GTK with Qt, it incorporates some classic applications such as GIMP or Inkscape that are developed in GTK but the bulk of the applications are GTK , APOLOGIES!!! ====
Comment 1: Regarding my comment: when using Netrunner very above it seemed to me that it had GTK applications that replaced Qt natvias applications but I realize that I said a stupid thing since the main roles are covered by GTK applications.
Comment 2: Netrunner provides an icon to access Yakuake (the panel that unfolds from the top edge), to use it more comfortably I recommend the traditional keyboard shortcut (Alt + F12) or one that is more comfortable for you according to to use the keyboard and system, in my case Super (wrongly called Windows) + Esc.
Comment 3: After reverting the Kickoff applications menu to the original KDE 4 menu, I discovered that Netrunner places a lot of emphasis on some "social" aspects of the net, interesting no doubt for some users but totally superfluous for me.
Let's see if one of these days you surprise us with a note about this operating system ;-D
Regards!!
"Since the main roles are covered by GTK applications."
Qt: p
Tremendous explanation, to see if the "wizards" of W $ tell you things with so much
detail and examples.
Well, you have taken me out of my ignorance with Linux. I ventured back like
about 9 months to try without knowing "nor tweet" this SO All my life since I put
fingers on a keyboard I used W $ because it was the one that came installed, and fingering
I was learning to use it and «shit ...» enormously ... and formatted in
formatted and spoiling data, files, time and even hardware; I learned
to handle the W $.
But now and with the help of google san and you who selflessly
collaborate, I have learned a lot and I already consider myself to have very basic knowledge in
Linux to leave it as the only system on my personal laptop. Still on a netbook
the W $ is left for that of the work, but as soon as I have a chance a
Mint or a Fuduntu I will place you.
In all these months; I tried how many distro I found looking for the ideal one and I think
that I finally found it in Netrunner, I got involved a lot with the derivatives of Arch and with
the commands for them, I got used to the .deb and apt-get hehehe 🙂 (skill
of W $, looking for the simplicity of a click but without knowing why) Linux will
it teaches to think and not to be one more sheep of the flock.
Hopefully many of those who read the post and use the information they find,
leave ingratitude and write a comment or at least a THANK YOU
that costs nothing and makes you look good, plus it is a stimulus for those who
wrote the article, knowing that your time is not wasted.
Millions of THANKS for everything you contribute.
"Hopefully many of those who read the posts and use the information they find,
leave ingratitude and write a comment or at least a THANK YOU
that costs nothing and makes you look good, plus it is a stimulus for those who
wrote the article, knowing that your time is not wasted.
Millions of THANKS for everything you contribute. »
The same thing happens to me, obviously there is a HUGE part of ego and the need for creation of the developers of each application, theme of icons, colors, whatever.com, which does not mean that one is eternally grateful for being able to sink their fangs into said piece of software.
Well, I provided PCLINUX monty and mini - great distro, I consider it # 1 [and I have tried many] I even bought the dvd online [the 2 versions.] I don't usually buy the dvd online - but the quality of this OS convinced me. It is rolling release solid rock distro. Sorry for spanglish. Try it !!