New Year Announcement

Hi there, first of all, wish you all a very happy new year.

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We hope this year will bring lots of new things to your as well as our lives. Well, this year we decided to make some changes to our blog.

More content incoming

Considering the free time this year, post frequency will be much more improved and hopefully will be constant with low ups and downs. We decided to bring more fresh and quality content to you guys. As our main focus is on people who are new to Linux and PC, we will bring more of tutorials which once used to be the main factor of this blog. So rest assured, the reign of tutorials will rise again.

Carry Forward

We have not forgotten our new categories started last year. We are bound to stick with our previous categories 'My Views', 'Quick Tips', and 'Free BSD'. 

Something for iPhone users 

Oh yes!! we got an iPhone to play with now. Thus, we will be bringing some cool stuff for our readers who use iPhone. A new category for iOS will be added and lots of new stuff in the same category is going to make its way in.

For now, this is all we gonna announce. So let's have fun together.

Feedly : A great way to keep updated

Hi friends, there are times when you just need to keep updated with your favorite website or blog. Even though you can access them through web browser, but sometimes it's too lazy to do that. In that case there is a very nice app for Android and iOS named Feedly. Basically Feedly is like a RSS feed service for many websites and blogs.

Feedly provides many features like creating collections of your fees, sharing them with friends, sharing between teams and projects, etc. In Feedly you can search for specific website or you can just browse different topics, this app will give you lots of results related to topic. You can simply follow authors and websites you like. There are many topics and many categories you can search in this app.

Feedly also gives option to login using different social media or with your email. By creating account you can sync your collections on various devices and make it available anywhere you want.

Design of this app is very elegant and it provides cards like feed view. you just have to swipe to see next feed or next page. It also shows all the images but at the same time it maintains it's minimal design.

Feedly Also have an web client so you can simply use it on your pc too. Web client is also beautifully designed and minimal.

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In short, with Feedly you can stay updated with latest posts from your favorite blogs or websites. You can simply use it for getting news updates, learning new recipe everyday, learn to make different cocktails or just follow your favorite person over internet. Possibilities are vast and its free for you to try out with an optional pro version which has extra features.

To download Feedly - Play Store
Or Official Website

Weather Underground : Weather updates and much more

Hi guys, ever thought about getting detailed information of weather, health risks or even get a webcam view of the place you are going to travel to? Well, there is an app for android who can easily do it all for you. Weather Underground is not only givers you current weather updates of places, but also gives much detailed information of that place.

• As any other weather app, this app also works on GPS or custom locations manually added by user. It gives all the basic information like current temperature, Maximum and minimum temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc.

• Weather Underground Also provide forecast on daily or hourly basis. So get the idea of how the weather will be before going to that place. Forecast is also detailed and gives best possible results.

•  Weather Underground tells you timings of sunrise and sunset. It will show you exactly how much time left for Sunset. And not only about sun, but also it shows details about moon. It tells you when next full moon is or when next new moon is.

•  This app gives you detailed information about rain in that particular area. It tells about humidity, dew point, visibility, etc.

•  Not only about Weather, but also it gives information about health factors. Weather Underground tells about air quality of particular area, UV index and any chances of catching flu in that particular area.

•  Weather Underground Also provides detailed information about wind speed, Hurricane or cyclone information. If you don't believe what this app tells, then it also gives webcam view of current weather conditions in particular area. This app also gives you links to check out the news, scientific discussions about particular area.

Weather Underground is one of the most versatile app for weather updates made for android. While manually setting up locations it also gives option to connect with nearest weather station for more detailed and accurate information about weather.

To download Weather Undergroud just hit Play Store.
Or just visit wunderground.com/

Debian 9: Stretch released

The most used Linux Distribution, indirectly or directly, Debian is like a father to many big and small distros.Today Debian team announced the release of Debian Stretch, the new Debian release.This release really excites us.Wondering, Why? Find yourself by reading the full post.

Before we start, We want to thank Ian Murdock, the man without whom we must not be having the Linux as interesting as it is now to use and of course the availability of a variety of other distros based on Debian can't be ignored.

What is new in here?

• Well starting from the very first thing that may decide whether you'll try or use new Debian or not and it is, of course, the system requirement.The new Debian Stretch has more new adds to the system support.With one new added architecture and one removal may make some difference.64-bit little endian MIPS has been added and sadly PowerPC is no more supported in Debian 9.Other than that 32-bit PC(i386) is not kicked out of the supported list, as per many other distributions dropping the support of it.ARM EABI, ARMv7, 64-bit Pc are some other supported architectures. 

• With the release of Debian 9, Firefox and Thunderbird are making a return.Replacing the long time occupied at their places Iceweasel and Icedove are removed.

• MariaDB is now the default MySQL variant.MariaDB 10.1 has been added to the same.Apache 2.4.25,Chromium 59.0.0371.86, GIMP 2.8.18, LibreOffice 5.2, systemd 232, Thunderbird 45.8 are some of the update packages.With the inclusion of 15346 new packages, a total of 61687 packages is in here in the Debian 9.Out of which most of the packages, about 29859 packages have been updated.

• In Debian 9 Linux 4.9 is the base Kernel.

• UEFI boot is now better than before, so Windows Laptops must not get any issue in installing Debian 9 on their system.
• Debian Stretch has wide range of almost all major DEs, GNOME 3.2KDE Plasma 5.8, LXDE, MATE 1.16, Xfce 4.12
• Xorg server doesn't require root anymore.
• New deb.debian.org mirror has been introduced.All major to minor main archive, port archive, security archive are available in there.

We will be back with full detailed post on Debian 9 Stretch.Till then You may give it a try.

Libre OS USB : Your Portable System [TechPhylum Exclusive Review]

Hi guys, welcome to the 17th segment of "Introduction with Linux Distro". 
Well, Libre OS USB is a new entry in Linux World, Patrick Fox, the man behind this amazing distro united with TechPhylum team to test this amazing OS
Have you ever thought of carrying your system, carrying the whole world which is right on your PC or carrying all the important data you need anytime along with you? Well, if yes then this segment is simply meant for you. Today, our guest is Libre OS USB. This distribution will fulfill your portable OS dreams. Let's get to know more about this distro.

• About Libre OS USB - Libre OS is yet to get released Globally for Public. But as Libre USB OS developer found us perfect for testing it, we got our early hands on this OS. We did our best in hunting down some of the minor to major issues what a normal user will face in daily usage. We got our hands on the Libre OS 4.0 and now with full bug and performance fixes, here is our review of Libre OS 5.0. For now, this OS is arranging Crowd Funding to keep the development up and generate a good community around it.  

• Introduction & Background - Libre OS USB is originated in France. Libre OS USB was born in 2012 when Mr. Patrick Fox, the developer behind this distro first made a Xubuntu-based live OS key for a local computer vendor. Soon it received praise and Mr. Fox decided to make the Libre OS series. This OS is meant to boot on any machine and it supports both legacy and UEFI bootloaders. While the OS is new to rest of the world, there are some interesting features about this distro.
• Whole OS in one USB - Unlike another distro which takes space on your hard drive, Libre OS USB completely takes its space in the USB. A standard 16 GB USB is enough to carry this OS and all your important files around. It works as a live OS. All you need to do is make a USB key of Libre OS USB and just plug it in any PC and tweak your bootloader, you will get access to this wonderful OS. This can be anything, your portable office, a portable studio, a data rescue OS, an everyday OS, etc.
  

  

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• Making USB key and Booting - Like many other distro, it is very simple to make USB key of Libre OS USB. Once you get an image file of this distro, you can simply us dd method to make USB key from any Linux distro. Alternatively, if you are using windows then you can use Rufus and select dd image option while making a USB key. Once you are done making a USB key, just plug it in any pc and boot from USB. you will be greeted with a beautiful boot screen of Libre OS USB. 
• Look and Feel - Libre OS USB is currently using latest MATE desktop environment for their testing versions. This makes the OS quite lightweight and can be used on older hardware. The icons and themes are beautiful. 
  

There is also an option for tweaking themes and downloading more from online sources which make it quite customizable. You can simply choose just light or dark flavor, otherwise you can also customize it further to suit your style.

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Well, there is also a beautiful boot screen animation and a good looking lock screen. So when it comes to looks, Libre OS USB is absolutely not a bad choice.

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• Base and Performance - Libre OS USB uses Ubuntu as it's base. Being based on Ubuntu give an advantage of utilizing Ubuntu repositories from software and updates. The current testing version of Libre OS USB is based on Ubuntu 17.04 with all the latest updates available till date. When it comes to performance, Libre OS USB won't disappoint you at all. If you used a USB 3.0, then it will run very smoothly without any lags or freezes. The transitions work smooth and it is very stable as per our use till now. 
  
• Encryption - This feature is very interesting in this OS. unlike any other live medium, Libre OS USB offers an encrypted storage withing your USB key. So basically whatever work you have done in this distro is saved in that encrypted storage. Many live mediums don't offer this feature which is a plus point for this OS.
• Software and Applications - By default Libre OS USB is bundled with loads of applications and software which are useful in day to day life. It have LibreOffice for office works, it have studio apps like audacity and more, it has many games for entertainment. 
  

Furthermore, if you want particular software you can simply use software center or Synaptic package manager to install it manually. You will surely get what you are looking for without many hassles. 

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• Uses - Libre OS USB can be used anywhere. You can use it as your portable office. You can use it as a portable studio. If you travel a lot and want to keep less baggage with you then Libre OS USB can be very helpful in carrying the system along as it can be accessed from any PC. We used this for rescuing some important data from our secondary machine. You can just use it as your private space because once you removed the USB key from PC, no one can see what you done. You can even use it as an everyday OS.

• The man behind Libre OS USB - Patrick Fox is a programmer and Linux enthusiast who developed Libre OS back in 2012 and sold many copies in France, as soon as his customers started to appreciate the usability and handiness, he started to develop it more and more. And now here in 2017, he has come to a more stable and a complete ruckus to fight against all the top leading Distros. He is the One Man Army for his appreciable work.We are quite impressed with the OS and more impressed by the thing that without any community lying underneath for the testing and bug-hunting. 

• Philosophy and Goals - The developer behind Libre OS simply wants this OS to be released on a larger scale and on an international level. He wants to unite Linux enthusiasts and make a community around Libre OS USB. This OS is made to simplify people's needs and provide them a strong medium which they can access anywhere. While doing all this it also keeps your data encrypted and secure with stable and smooth performance.
• Support and Contribute - If you want to contribute to this project feel free to make desired donations at Kickstarter.com. Furthermore, you can visit the official website of Libre OS USB for more information.Kindly Share the post and Kickstarter link as much as possible.We really need some good Distro like this in Linux World.

Libre OS USB is not yet released to the public as it needs crowd-funding to be released on a larger scale and keep it maintained. Once released Libre OS USB will be completely free for everyone and will release a new version on every Long Term Support version of Ubuntu. Furthermore, intermediate versions on every Ubuntu release will also be made available to the public.