How to encrypt folders and files on Ubuntu/Linux Mint/ Debian/ Linux?

When it comes to security of our secret and highly sensitive data and files then, we really don't tend to take more risks.The best way to keep our files and folders secure is encryption of files and folders.
Wondering how to do it?
Well, there are many tools available for encryption on Windows, Linux.But today we are about to cover some tools for Linux.The Windows Version should be published real soon.

What is Encryption?

As written on webopedia:Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it. Unencrypted data is called plain text ; encrypted data is referred to as cipher text.

So,Now here are two cool tools to do your encryption work

GnuPG: GnuPG is one of the best encryption tool available.It is a command-line tool, so newcomers to Linux would be thinking to avoid it, but it is so easy for any individual user.On most of the Debian based Distros GnuPG is pre-installed, so no need of externally installations.

Itch.io - your portal to Indie world

Recently we have been doing some weird things and suddenly we found out something which is very satisfying to a gamer's urges. Now if you are into gaming, then you simply can't say no to wonderful Indie games. We have encountered with such site which is dedicated for Indie developers to publish their games. So what you will get on Itch.io? A paradise full of Indie games. On Itch, there are tons of Indie games for all three platforms i.e. Windows, macOS, Linux. More on it, Itch also provides a dedicated client for PC to manage all your games easily.

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Itch provides proper categorized solution to all your Indie needs. You can buy games here and you can even sell your game here with a simple registration in site. Many free games are also there. There is dedicated category to Linux and macOS. As you can see in below screenshot there are 7031 games for Linux, that is pretty high for Indie games.

Linux Mint 18.1 Beta released

Well,Just months back Linux Mint 18 got it's release,now it is the time to have the next point release of Linux Mint 18.Just few hours ago Linux Mint team has announced the availability of Linux Mint 18.1 Beta.
As Linux Mint users , who have already moved to Linux Mint 18, might be loving it for the newly introduced themes,look & feel and features(of course,they didn't go like updating only pre-installed packages :p ).So,in this time, coming from rainy to winter season,they have made a good list of new improvements,features and support.
After all, the final release is about to become Christmas and New Year Gift.
What's new in here?
There's a new screensaver in Cinnamon flavoured version of Linux Mint 18.1 Beta,which is written from scratch in Python,this new screensaver is not only faster but also more customisable than any other releases.Cinnamon 3.2 also supports vertical sidebars,so you can set it up as per your needs.

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Apart from the cinnamon DE, Linux Mint 18.1 beta has also been released in MATE edition, having markable improvements in notification daemon,session manager and MATE terminal.
Apps,UI and feel have not been compromised at all,they have been worked.The update manager is now showing origin of the updates and there's also a detailed view of the kernel update,Kernels will now be sorted according to their recommendations and version.So Yes, It is going to make more ease in choosing the right base Kernel for the Linux Mint system.
You can see all other new things in Linux Mint 18.2 Beta Cinnamon|MATE.

Peppermint 7 Respin released

Peppermint is a Lubuntu based,very light on hardware but lightining fast Linux Distribution.This cloud and web-application based Distribution got new release,Peppermint 7 Respin.Peppermint team has made an announcement about the release of Peppermint 7 Respin.

On one side many Linux Distributions are ending the support to 32-bit support ,there Peppermint 7 Respin is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit.

What's new and Updated?
Most of the things are updated to their most latest versions and apart from that Peppermint 7 Respin is coming with one of the most stable Kernel,Linux Kernel 4.4.0-47 build.
Multimedia Function keys are now working fine and Google Chrome keyring is also fixed.
hplip has been added for the support of Hp Printers.It is also said that Grub has a new backround and also new desktop wallpaper has been added.
There are some more newly added things that you can find in the announcement or else you may get this latest release on your system.

Asana - A cool way to manage your team

You are working on a project with a great team but you simply don't know who is doing what due to lack of communication!! This can happen but there are quite a lot websites and apps to solve this problem and keep track of everyone's work. From such apps, Asana is one of our favourite.

So why use Asana? Well, it is availble on PC as well as phones. This gives advantage to PC users. Asana is slick and manages all our project data in cloud so there's no fear of loosing your data. Asana is simplified and easy to use.

Solus 1.2.1 Shannon is out

There is a good news for Solus users and people who would love to try a different Linux distro, Solus 1.2.1 Shannon is released a few hours ago. This time Solus team have decided to give you guys a nice surprise, a Mate edition. So, Solus 1.2.1 is released in two flavours which are Budgie and Mate.

The team behind Solus worked hard to bring new things and features in this release. Well, according to official announcement Budgie flavour have given IBUS support. This is helpful to people who prefers different language other than English. Budgie dektop is updated to 10.2.8 and it is bringing lots of improvement here. They have made various improvements in applets which is not only be eye-candy, but also useful for users. When it comes to bug fixing they have announced a long list.

KDevelop 5.0.2 released and available for Download

Kdevelop is an IDE,available on Linux and Windows,so it covers a good users' response or in other words,we should say,CODERS' response :p.
Anyway,Today Few hours ago,Sven Brauch made an announcement regarding the release of the next maintenance update of the Kdevelop 5.X series.
This update has quite notable issue fixes and some fixes are also out there in Windows installer.
There's good news for Windows users on 32-bit system,Kdevelop 5.0.2 is  available in 32-bit as well.

Broken search in the documentation view is now fixed.Users were also getting some issues with breakpoints which is now fixed.Some other fixes are Download More, Selecting the Next/Previous button in the toolview,install as root wasn't working which is fixed, and other fixes you may check in the announcement itself.

You can Download the source code or AppImage,All downloads are availble on this Download Page.

Budgie-remix 16.10 is out

You are looking for some beautiful Linux distributions? Oh, we found one more for you. Budgie-remix is also one of the most beautiful Linux distros on the planet and to add more excitement to that, team behind Budgie-remix announced new release a few hours ago. Budgie-remix 16.10 which is based on Ubuntu 16.10 is out for public. They have made quite a lot changes to this release.

According to official announcement the OS will now have more languages which is a good thing for native lovers. Apart from that, there will be Linux Kernel 4.8.x included in this release. Let's see what official announcement say,

Ubuntu Studio 16.10 is out for public

A few hours ago, the team behind Ubuntu Studio announced released of new version which is 16.10 Yakkety Yak. It will be supported for 9 months. While all the Ubuntu flavors are getting 16.10 releases, Ubuntu Studio holds a different place as it is concentrated on studio related things. So what is new in this release? As the base is Ubuntu 16.10, everything will be common in these two but Ubuntu Studio gives extra edge for studio related things. According to official announcement following are the changes.

Desktop

• New default Numix Blue theme

Audio

• Added dgedit
• Added drumgizmo

Video

• Replaced recordmydesktop with vokoscreen

Graphics

• Replaced gnome-color-manager with dispcalgui
• Added gpick

Publishing

• Added calibre
• Added pdf-shuffler
• Added plume-creator

Apart from all this, if you are reading this and you are good developer or you can just contribute to Ubuntu studio then kindly contact the team using This Link.
Ubuntu Studio team is much shorter than it was before and they really need a helping hand to release and maintain things. So, it is also a request from us if you can contribute them please do so.

To download latest version click - Ubuntu Studio 16.10

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Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 16.10

One of the most awaited Linux Distribution, Ubuntu 16.10,which was under development releases since months, Now has finally got the final release.
For a quick look, Ubuntu 16.10 has new Preview version of Unity 8,Linux Kernel 4.8 which is, Of course a stable and latest Kernel. Further More many new packages and applications have been added and updated.According to the announcement
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• MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning
• Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0
• Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence
• OpenStack Newton with secure bare metal performance and containers
• Snapd 2.16 delivers apps to a wide range of Linux servers, devices, and desktops
• More than 500 snaps published, with updates directly to end-users from ISVs
• Performance improvements in network and virtualisation for throughput, latency

" and other details can be found in the official announcement.

ExTiX 16.5 released with Linux kernel 4.8 and new LXQt DE

ExTiX is a Debian and Ubuntu based Linux Distro. Using ExTiX has its own advantages. It is vastly used as a Live DVD distro as well. Team of ExTiX has come up with the release announcement of ExTiX 16.5, coming with Linux Kernel 4.8 as its kernel and LXQt 0.10.0. ExTiX is based on Debian 8.6 as well as Debian 9, and the upcoming and the awaited Ubuntu 16.10.
About the DE (Desktop Environment), LXQt is a lightweight DE, especially known for its lightweight and blazing speed.What's New In Here?
With the latest version of Linux Kernel 4.8.0-21-exton and LXQt 0.10.0 as its DE, ExTiX 16.5 has many new and updated software packages as well. Google Chrome is being used as the Default Web Browser next to it a nice Web Editor BlueGriffon (A WYSIWYG editor) has also been added. Thunderbird, Gparted,Brasero, SMPlayer, Gcc and some compilation tools has been added with all multimedia codecs, it does mean no more bummer, simply get your System installed and ready to work with, all needy and important tools and packages are already out here. Addition to this, Nvidia's Graphics driver is pre-installed, as announcement states,"I have also installed Nvidia’s proprietary graphics driver 370.28 in this new version ExTiX LXQt. It has support for the following GPUs: Quadro K1200, Quadro M6000, GeForce 920M, GeForce 930A, GeForce 930M, GeForce 940M, GeForce GTX 950M, GeForce GTX 960M and GeForce GTX TITAN X. This driver will be used automatically if your card is supported.".

KDE Plasma 5.8.1 released,the first bugfix release to Plasma 5.8

It has not been so long that we might have forgotten the release of the amazingly beautiful and handy Desktop Environment, KDE plasma 5.8 LTS released, now without any big delay the KDE team came up with the found bugs in the final release.KDE team has made an announcement about the release of first bug fix update for LTS version KDE Plasma 5.8,i.e. KDE plasma 5.8.1.
What's New In Here?

As stated in the announcement,

This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:

• Fix modifier-only-shortcut after using Alt+Tab
• Support for EGL_KHR_platform_x11
• Fix crash when moving panel between two windows
• Many Wayland fixes, e.g. resize-only-borders

Furthermore, the changelog showed more detailed view of changes and fixes made on many parts of the DE, Breeze, Discover, KDE GTK config, Kwin, Oxygen and plasma workspace has many improvements and enhanced performance than previous release. Well, we are expecting soon this fix update will hit the distros too, and updates will be available other than that you may have a look over the Source Downloads of this update (Links can be found in the announcement).

Fedora 25 Beta released

Fedora, the well known Linux distribution providing numerous of amazing features and wide list of applications for all required to pro-level tools, has got an announcement of the beta release of Fedora 25 release-segment. Previously, Fedora 25 Alpha was released. The final release of Fedora is expected in November.
What's New In Fedora 25 Beta?
As mentioned in the announcement,"Fedora’s journey is not simply about updating one operating system with the latest and greatest packages. It’s also about innovation for the many different platforms represented in the Fedora Project: Workstation, Server, Atomic, and the various Spins", So, really they are up to on their words. Everytime a new Fedora release makes it way, it doesn't take the same route like other distros.

HandyLinux decides to drop future english translations

HandyLinux is a Debian based distribution. It is mainly concentrated on beginners and user who prefer easy way to use Linux. It uses Xfce desktop environment, so it is even compatible with older hardware. But there is a sad news for people who prefer English language, HandyLinux team decided to stop English translations in future updates.

HandyLinux is a french distribution with french as primary language for UI and documentation. In recent years the team also translated all the documentation in English to welcome international community in the project. But it seems due to lack of team members in translation department, HandyLinux team is going to abandon English translations. According to official announcement only two members registered in two years to contribute in English related things. Well, it's sad to see one of most user friendly distribution to stop producing for international community.

Meanwhile if you want to use HandyLinux and you only understand English, then you can keep current English version of HandyLinux. All the HandyLinux tools will be maintained until May 2018.

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FreeBSD 11.0 release announced

FreeBSD, a well known and vastly used operating system based on the BSD version of UNIX got release announcement of FreeBSD 11.0. With numerous of changes and improvements in the previously released development releases, now finally the finally release is here with first stable release, FreeBSD 11.0.

What's New In Here?
Well, the announcement has a nice list of highlights about the FreeBSD 11.0 stable release.
OpenSSH got an update, added to that OpenSSH DSA key generation is now disabled by the default and protocol 1 is no more supported.

There are new supports in wireless term,802.11n is now supported with broader wireless driver support. The svnlite the well known control version control system tool got an update to 1.9.4.

Support for arm64 architecture has also been added with some added support to native graphics in this final release. For detailed information about this final release kindly head over to the release notes.
Download the latest FreeBSD according to your system requirements,the release note includes the way to upgrade from earlier versions as well.So, follow it up.All the download images can be found here.

Bodhi Linux 4.0.0 Beta released-Final release is expected at the end of month

Bodhi Linux 4.0.0 is making its way to final release and it is now one more step closer to this by having its beta release. Yes, the Ubuntu based beauty with Moksha DE (Moksha is a forked version of well known Enlightenment DE) got its beta release i.e. Bodhi LInux 4.0.0 Beta after months of release of Alpha version. Back in July, Bodhi Linux 4.0.0 alpha released.

Superb Mini Server(SMS) version 2.0.9 released

Superb Mini Server finally got a new updated version release after a long time period. Yes, After a long awaited time, the previous version of SMS (Superb Mini Server) 2.0.8 which was released back in 2015, now in 2016 got a new release of SMS 2.0.9.

Even if the releases are less-frequent, this Slackware based distribution really makes a good amount of users, who works with servers. Mostly look at this distro because of set of applications available and the environment is completely perfect for those who love to work with the web-server based developments and managements.

How to install Apricity OS with screenshots

Few days ago we explained a little about Apricity OS. We hope you guys had no problems while installing it or making a dual boot with windows. But in case someone actually having problem then here's how you should install Apricity OS in most easier way. To start the process there are some requirements, of course you have to fulfill these first.

1. A PC or Laptop.
2. A bootable USB key or DVD which have Apricity OS in it.
3. A little knowledge of partitioning.
4. If you don't have knowledge of partitioning then lots of courage.

First of all we assume that you guys already made bootable media of Apricity OS. Just insert it in your laptop / PC and hit the boot loader. (Please don't ask how to access boot loader, it is the most basic thing in a life of computer operator) Select boot from USB/DVD and you will be able to enter Apricity OS live session. Just select install to hard drive and start installation process. First three steps are easy, choose your keyboard layout, region, language,etc.

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Now after you have done selecting basic things, the main problem comes in front of us. This main problem is known as partitioning. As you can see below there are four options install alongside, replace a partition, erase disk and manual partitioning. Now you can simply go to first three options to get your work done easily, but we recommend the fourth option i.e. manual partitioning. why manual partitioning? Because it gives you courage and knowledge to handle future partitioning tasks.

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Now we are inside manual partitioning thing. You can see we already have dual booted our PC with windows + Bodhi Linux. So what we are gonna do is remove Bodhi and install Apricity. This case is in our PC. Your PC can only have one OS in that case you need to either shrink your partition or use other partition as host for Linux (we have also given information on how to do this somewhere in this site)

Now what we gonna do is simply remove Bodhi Linux partition here and replace it with Apricity OS. See below screenshots carefully and you will understand more quickly.

 Remember to create new partition as primary one with ext4 file system (why ext4? well, for no good reason. you can keep ext2 or ext3 too) The mount point should only be '/' this will mount root system on that partition. and no need to select any flags.

 Now you can see we have replaced Bodhi Linux partition with Apricity OS. and remember to keep your root of HDD as master boot loader (we actually have two HDD in our PC that's there are many options).

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After this all you will be asked to create a user account for this OS. It is important to fill it properly and try not to forget your password.

Now we have completed all the steps successfully. After this we will be greeted with a summary of our process. See below as we made changes to partitions, it is shown there in summary. Always check your summary to confirm that everything is done in proper way.

After confirming everything summary just hit the next button to stat the process of installing Apricity OS and wait until the process is complete. Reboot your PC and you got two options to choose from. Congratulations, you have successfully dual booted your PC.

For more interesting thing in Linux world, keep visiting us and keep try various things with Linux. Most importantly have fun with Linux.

openSUSE 42.2 Beta 3 is available now

OpenSUSE 42.2 going to be code-name as LEAP, is getting fixes and new software integration with each & every beta updates coming in the subsequent months.
Well, this beta release really makes more sense as per view of stability, not because of any major base changes but by using the latest and just released KDE Plasma 5.8. Plasma 5.8 is a LTS released with many comprehensive and interesting new features like unified boot-screen, better applets, right-to-left language support etc.
Whats's new in the openSUSE 42.2 Beta 3:
Updated Softwares: Virtual Box 5.1.4, Firefox 49, Thunderbird 45.3.0 are updated from their previous versions used in the last beta 2 release. So, overall performance will be more reliable and feature-rich, no doubts in it.

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS released

After many work around in the previous beta version of KDE Plasma 5.8 beta, KDE team is finally here with their first LTS of Plasma desktop software release, KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS with the new version of KDE neon Distro. Believe it or not, this release is surely going to attract plenty of non-techie or simple users to this new version of KDE neon distro. But Techies are also not going to lose interest, this Ubuntu based beauty is going to prove the beast features as well.