So Ubuntu 12.04 64bit/amd64 virtual machines are now available for VirtualBox (VDI) and VMware (VMDK). Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing a few new features and improving quality control. Long term support maintenance updates will be provided...
Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution. Some of its more interesting features include a new GTK+ and icon theme for GNOME, the Midori web browser, new applications developed in-house (e.g. Dexter, an address book and Postler, an email client), and Nautilus Elementary, a simple file manager. Elementary OS code-named Luna was released, which uses Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as a...
Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux operating system based on Ubuntu but using the LXDE desktop environment in place of Ubuntu's Unity shell and GNOME desktop. LXDE is touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient". Like Xubuntu, Lubuntu is intended to be a low-system-requirement, low-RAM environment for netbooks, mobile devices, and older PCs. Tests show it can use half...
The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused around the goal of providing a rich base platform for open source communities to build upon. The CentOS team provide a development framework for cloud providers, the hosting community, and scientific data processing, as a few examples. They work with several 'upstream' communities to help them layer and distribute their software more...
Arch Linux is a Linux-based operating system for i686 and x86-64 computers. It is composed predominantly of free and open-source software, and supports community involvement. We have installed Arch Linux on Vmware and VirtualBox and providing you virtual images, these images only available as CLI (command line interface) we did not install any desktop environment, so you can choose whether to install desktop or...
