Google’s ChromeOS, the operating system of Chromebooks is based on Linux, but what distro is it actually based on? In this article let’s examine the answer to this question and see how you can turn your computer into a chrome book! For those of you in a hurry, here is the short version of the Answer! The Short Version of the Answer Chrome OS is based on Chromium OS, a Linux distro available only as a a bundle of source code! If you need to install chromium on your machine, you have 2 options You need to compile the source...

This article is for those of you looking for a Lightweight distro for use in your machine. Users generally go for a lightweight distribution due to one of the following factors Make their old hardware usable again Run a portable distro from a USB drive Run a distro entirely from RAM Run a distro as a Virtual machine Run as a Browse-Only distro Improve the performance of a modern budget machine Let us go ahead and analyse each of these categories in this article and figure out the best lightweight distros for each. For those of you in a hurry...

This article is for those of you looking for a Linux distro which can run entirely from RAM so that you can enjoy a lag-free experience! Let’ go ahead and explore what choices we have and analyze their differences of the best Linux distros that run from RAM! Almost any Linux Distro can be made to run from RAM, but there are 2 main disadvantages we need to consider in doing that we need to do some hacking to get that done since this is not a feature available natively in those distros and they usually require very large RAM...

This article is for those of you looking for a Linux distro which is USB persistent so that you can run Linux using just your USB flash drive. Let’ go ahead and explore what choices we have and analyze their differences of the best USB persistent Linux distros! Almost any Linux Distro can be installed on a USB flash drive and made persistent, but we need to do some hacking and install software like TimeShift and a full install to get that done! Also they usually require large USB’s (64GB or 128GB) the price of which matches traditional external hard...

This article is for those of you looking for a Linux distro which is ultra-lightweight under 100MB to install in their old computers or other devices like routers, switches, Network Attached Storage devices and home entertainment systems like smart TVs, etc, with very little resources but is capable of running Linux. Let’ go ahead and explore what choices we have and analyze their differences of the best Linux distros under 100MB! Let us start by look at the short version of the answer for those of you in a hurry! The Short Version Of The Answer Best all-round Lightweight Distro...

If you look at the desktop market, the majority of it is occupied by Windows, Mac OSX comes second and Linux takes the 3rd place. But if you look into it, you will realize that there is no such thing as Linux OS instead you will find a wide variety of Operating Systems called distributions like Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, CentOS, etc. So why is there no such thing called Linux OS? And what are these so-called “Distributions”? In this article let’s try to answer these questions and understand the often misunderstood concept of Linux Distributions. The Short Version Of The...

This article is for students looking to switch to Linux for learning programming and are in the process of selecting the best distro to install in their machines. Let’s go ahead and explore what choices we have and analyze their differences in an attempt to choose the best Linux Distro for Learning Programming! Let us start by look at the short version of the answer for those of you in a hurry to start your quest of learning programming! The Short Version Of The Answer Distro#1: Ubuntu and its derivatives Distro#2: Fedora and the RHEL family of distros That is...

This article is for computer science students looking to switch to Linux and are in the process of selecting the best distro to install in their machines. Let’s go ahead and explore what choices we have and analyze their differences in an attempt to choose the best Linux Distro for Computer Science Students. Let us start by look at the short version of the answer for those of you in a hurry to start your Linux quest! The Short Version Of The Answer Overall best distro for Computer Science Students: Ubuntu Best distro for Operating System majors: Gentoo Best distro...

This article is for those of you who are Linux-users/Distro-hoppers who are trying to find the perfect distro to do Programming/Software Developing activities in. Let’ go ahead and explore what choice we have and analyze their differences in an attempt to choose the best Linux Distro for Programming/Software Developing activities. Let’s start by look at the short version of the answer for those of you in a hurry to start your Software development quests! The Short Version Of The Answer Distro#1: Ubuntu and its derivatives Distro#2: Fedora and the RHEL family of distros That is just the short version of...