Installing Freebsd 9 On Virtualbox Linux InstallPut the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Zorin OS 1. CoreZorin OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. The Zorin distribution is designed to be beginner friendly and is geared toward providing a familiar desktop environment for people who are transitioning to Linux from Windows. Feather Linux was a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 128MB of space. It was a Knoppix remaster based on Debian. Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual. Oracle Corporation. You cant build a moat around your network, but you can protect it with a firewall so which is your best Linux option FreeBSD is a free and opensource Unixlike operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution BSD. Although for legal reasons. Installing Freebsd 9 On Virtualbox Linux Mint' title='Installing Freebsd 9 On Virtualbox Linux Mint' />A hypervisor or virtual machine monitor VMM is computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs. Everyones comments ozpoz leake, Tuesday, 05 July 2016. Hi all, I have tried virtualbox 4. On another machine. Help with this one. Ubuntu 9. 10 inside virtualbox 3. Zorin ships with the WINE compatibility software which allows the distribution to run many applications built for Windows. The latest version, Zorin OS 1. Core and Ultimate. The Core edition can be downloaded for free and ships with lots of useful open source applications, the WINE compatibility software and a somewhat Windows like desktop theme. The Ultimate edition costs 1. Euros, offers additional games, desktop layouts and technical support. Both editions of Zorin 1. GNOME Shell and GNOMEs Universal Search bar. This search bar can be accessed by pressing the meta key and, through the search bar, we can look up time zone information, weather reports, available software in Zorins repositories and solve simple math problems. Further, Zorin 1. Ubuntus Unity 8 desktop. Zorin ships with a high contrast theme by default and the distribution has replaced the Zorin Theme Changer and Zorin Look Changer utilities with one unified application called Zorin Appearance. The distribution now uses GNOME Software as the graphical software front end for package management and I will talk more about these changes later. Zorin 1. 2 Core is available in 3. ISO we download is 1. GB in size. Booting from this downloaded image launches a graphical environment. A window appears and asks if we would like to try Zorins live desktop environment or launch the projects system installer. We can select our preferred language at this time from a list of languages on the left side of the window. At the bottom of the window is a link to the projects release notes and clicking this link opens a web browser to display the on line document. Something I found odd was that when I clicked the link to display Zorins release notes, the web browser worked. Super Utilities Pro 9 9 3 Rustic Stars. It opened as expected and brought up the desired information. However, when I opted to try exploring Zorins live desktop environment, I found the one application which did not launch was the Chromium web browser. When attempting to open the browser from the application menu, nothing would happen. When trying to launch Chromium from a virtual terminal, the terminal would hang, neither opening the browser nor returning me to a command prompt and no errors were displayed. Zorin OS 1. 2 The Zorin application menufull image size 1. MB, resolution 1. Zorin uses the Ubiquity system installer, a graphical application which it inherits from Ubuntu. Ubiquity begins by asking if we would like to download software updates while the installation is in progress. We are also given the option of downloading third party software packages, such as Flash, wi fi drivers and multimedia codecs. I stuck with the defaults, ignoring software updates and installing the third party items. Next we are asked if we would like to have the installer set up disk partitions for us or if we would like to manually divide up our disk. I like Ubiquitys partition manager, I find it easy to navigate with just a few clicks and I like how Ubiquity shows us a graphical representation of our partitions. The installer supports working with a wide range of file systems, including Btrfs, ZFS, JFS, LVM volumes and ext. Next, the installer gets us to confirm our time zone and asks us to select our keyboard layout from a list. The last step in the installation process gets us to create a user account for ourselves and we have the option of setting up encryption on our users home directory. Once the installation completes we can restart the computer and Zorin boots to a graphical login screen. Signing into our account brings up the GNOME desktop. At the bottom of the screen we find an application menu, a few quick launch buttons and the system tray. The application menu and desktop layout have a Windows like quality in their positioning and organization, though the colour theme is distinct to Zorin. Zorin OS 1. 2 The settings panelfull image size 7. B, resolution 1. I experimented with Zorin in two test environments, a Virtual. Box virtual machine and a physical desktop computer. When running on the desktop machine, I ran into two problems. The first came when using the live disc. When selecting to try the distributions live desktop environment from the greeter window, I was dropped to a text console and shown a login prompt. I was able to sign into a user account with the user name zorin without a password. From there, I could run the startx command to access the GNOME powered desktop environment. I am uncertain as to why the live disc was unable to perform this transition to the live desktop automatically. Once Zorin was up and running I ran into a couple of instances, in both test environments, where the desktop would no longer respond to mouse clicks or keyboard input. I could move the mouse around the screen, but the system gave no response to keyboard or mouse button presses. The only way I could find to restore the system to working order was a soft reset. When running in Virtual. Box, I found Zorin automatically integrated with the virtual environment, allowing me to make use of my screens full display resolution. The GNOME desktop was a little sluggish at times when running in Virtual. Box, but was snappy when running on the physical desktop computer. In either environment, Zorin tended to use about 8. MB of memory when signed into GNOME. One final word on hardware I have an HP Office. Jet 6. 60. 0 printer which I can connect to over wi fi. Using Zorins settings panel, I was able to connect to the printer using the devices IP address. Zorin supplies many printer drivers and some of them are similar to the 6. Most other desktop distributions I have used recently have had drivers specific to the 6. Earlier I mentioned one of Zorins features is an advanced search bar which can be used to do all sorts things, from simple math problems to checking the weather to looking for available software. In the desktops settings panel there is a configuration module which allows us to toggle onoff specific features of the search bar. This means we can use it specifically to find software in the repositories or the current time in a given city and we can disable the features we do not want. Zorin OS 1. 2 Performing a searchfull image size 1. MB, resolution 1. I experimented with the search bar quite a bit and, while the concept is good, the implementation is still very rough. For example, searching for software only returns desktop applications, not anyall packages. This kind of makes sense, but not all desktop software returns results either, even when a specific name is provided. For example, searching for gnumeric, the name of a spreadsheet application, does not return any usable results, but searching for gwenview does return a link to the desired image viewer. When we do get the result we wanted, clicking the displayed entry opens the software manager and gives us the option of installing the package. When looking for time zones, the search bar only recognizes city names in the United States. Searches for Toronto or London do not return anything. Oddly enough, some American cities do not return results either. Searching for Seattle worked, but searching for New York did not return any useful results. I was pleased with the search bars calculator functionality. Typing in problems such as 6 9 produces accurate results and the calculator function can handle slightly more complicated math questions such as 8. The search bar can also find and run installed desktop applications. After a while I realized I had not received any notice as to whether there were security updates available for Zorin. I found there are three ways to check for and install available software updates. Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Random Distribution. Topologilinux. Topologilinux was a Slackware based distribution designed primarily to be installed inside an existing Windows system. As of version 6. 0, it can also be installed as a standalone distribution using the standard Slackware installer. Compared to Slackware, however, Topologilinux was enhanced with GNOME, Open. Office. org and other popular applications. Status Discontinued Latest News and Updates. NEW Development Release MX Linux 1. Beta 1. Rate this project. MX Linux is a desktop distribution based on Debians Stable branch. The distribution ships with the Xfce desktop environment and swaps out the systemd init software provided by Debian for the Sys. V init implementation. The project has released a new development snapshot, MX Linux 1. Beta 1. MX 1. 7 Beta 1 images are now available for download and testing. The Beta 1 features the following latest live system changes and fixes from the anti. X project the latest updates from Debian Stretch 4. ISO has a PAE kernel and the non PAE has been removed updated packages, including Libre. Office 5. 4. 1 new and updated mx apps mx tweak replaces mx defaultlook and provides one stop spot for simple compositor Xfce or Compton, panel, and other tweak type changes mx conky provides a method for doing simple edits to conky files color changes, etc. Further details can be found in the projects release announcement. Download MX 1. 7. MB, MD5, signature, pkglist. NEW Development Release Ghost. BSD 1. 1. 1 RC1. Rate this project. Ghost. BSD is a desktop oriented operating system based on Free. BSD. The project has published a new release candidate for the 1. Ghost. BSD 1. 1. 1 RC1. The new development snapshot removes GRUB from the system installer to prevent a number of bugs and ZFS volume configuration has been updated. This last development release of Ghost. BSD 1. 1. 1 is ready for testing. All MATE and Xfce images are available only for 6. For some of you, it might be shock that we are dropping i. We hope for those that need i. BSD project. On this RC release, we need help to find more problems. Ghost. BSD 1. 1. 1 is our first release featuring our own software package repository. What changed in 1. RC1 We removed GRUB from the installer for 1. ZFS configuration. Issues that got fixed The partition list was not deleted when pressing back the installer was not listing ZFS disk correctly. The release announcement invites people testing Ghost. BSD to report bugs. Download pkglist Ghost. BSD1. 1. 1 RC1 2. MB, SHA2. 56, Ghost. BSD1. 1. 1 RC1 2. MB, SHA2. 56. 2. NEW Distro. Watch Weekly, Issue 7. This week in Distro. Watch Weekly Review Bee. Free OS 1. 8. 1. 2. News Canonical joins GNOME Advisory Board, Solus works on software manager and Wayland support, a Tails status report, Slax may be returning to life. Tips and tricks Quick tricks to fix small problems on Linux. Released last week Neth. Server 7. 4, Open. Indiana 2. 01. 7. MLinux 2. 3. 0. Torrent corner 4. MLinux, IPFire, Neth. Server, Open. Indiana, Pardus, Prim. Tux, Swag. Arch, System. Rescue. Cd. Upcoming releases Fedora 2. Opinion poll Desktop environments that look like other operating systems. Distro. Watch. com donation Void. New additions heads. New distributions Obarun. Reader comments. Read more in this weeks issue of Distro. Watch Weekly. 2. NEW Distribution Release Pardus 1. Rate this project. Pardus, a Debian based Turkish Linux distribution for desktops and servers, has been updated to version 1. The new release offers three separate ISO images with distinct names that indicate the purpose Xfce, DDE Deepin Desktop Environment and Server. The release notes are available in Turkish only, but an online translation service reveals a changelog in this interim release of Pardus The default name of the download directory has changed from Downloads to ndirilenler the system settings menu has been enhanced the default printer test page has been redesigned the password of the pre defined pardus user is removed when the live system is turned on the crash that occurred when the gdebi program was run with a graphical interface was fixed the crash in certain parts of the gnome disks program have been fixed new desktop wallpapers added many packages have been updated the theme has been refreshed Deepin Desktop Media support added many security and system performance patches have been added. Further information on the software available in Pardus 1. Download SHA5. 12, pkglist Pardus 1. XFCE amd. 64. iso 1,2. MB, Pardus 1. 7. DDE amd. MB, Pardus 1. 7. SERVER amd. MB. 2. 01. 7 1. NEW Distribution Release 4. MLinux 2. 3. 0. Rate this project. MLinux is a simple Linux distribution for desktops and servers it uses the lightweight JWM window manager together with the LTS Linux kernel 4. LILO bootloader. After prolonged testing, the distributions 2. The status of the 4. MLinux 2. 3. 0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your own images with GIMP 2. Libre. Office 5. 4. GNOME Office Abi. Word 3. 0. 2 with Gnumeric 1. Drop. Box 3. 7. 4. Internet with Firefox 5. Chromium 6. 1. 0. Skype 5. 5. 0. 1 and Thunderbird 5. Audacious 3. 9, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN r. VLC 2. 2. 6. 4. MLinux 2. FAAC, GIF, JPEG 2. Monkeys Audio and Musepack file formats. GNOME Office has been added as a downloadable extension. Full support for SCSI, RAID and LVM devices is now available out of the box. And finally, the biggest change is related to the installation script, which now makes it possible to install 4. MLinux on ext. 2, ext. Reiser. FS, JFS, XFS, Btrfs and NILFS2 partitions. Here is the brief release announcement. Download MD5 4. MLinux 2. MB, pkglist. Also available from OSDisc. NEW OS Release Open. Indiana 2. 01. 7. Rate this project. Open. Indiana is an open source operating system based on the Illumos project and a member of the Solaris family. The project has released a new version, Open. Indiana 2. 01. 7. MATE desktop environment. The new version also supports binary compatibility with Solaris 1. The release announcement reads We have released a new Open. Indiana Hipster snapshot 2. The noticeable changes Xorg server was updated to 1. MATE was updated to 1. Text installer now can perform basic Open. Indiana installation to existing ZFS pool for example, in parallel to another Open. Indiana installation. Cluster suite was updated. ABI compatibility for Solaris 1. Weve started to remove GNOME 2 applications and libraries. Be warned if by some strange reason you still havent switched to MATE. Additional information can be found in the projects release notes. Download pkglist OI hipster gui 2. MB, SHA2. 56, signature, torrent, OI hipster text 2. MB, SHA2. 56, signature. Also available from OSDisc. NEW Distribution Release Neth. Server 7. 4. Rate this project. Alessio Fattorini has announced the release of a new version of Neth. Server, a Cent. OS based distribution for servers. The new Neth. Server release, version 7. Samba and Active Directory integration. The new version also will inform the user when new upstream releases are available. The new release automatically updates the domain controller and warns on upstream updates. Proxy, web content filter, anti virus and IPS were updated and got an improved web user interface. In addition, it contains some enhancements Speedtest in diagnostics panel, new bandwidth measuring, prevent intrusions with rule categories. Last but not least we are proud to present an up to date cloud and Vo. IP server. Account provider improvement The local Active Directory account provider is now able to apply updates to the Samba DC instance automatically.