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Linux , the king of OS's comes with a variety of flavours. Term OS for linux is nothing in comparison to what its capabilities are, ecosystem seems appropriate. People working on linux environment are majorly working on linux based distribution softwares. Redhat and Ubuntu being the most common names heard, but this is not the end of the list, because in linux ecosystem the unheard names like Linux Mint, openSUSE have been widely used throughout the world from last 25 years around. The different flavours have outcasted each other in some or the other way, thus providing great platforms to work on for end users. Let's see the versions who made a place in my top 10 list. 1.  Linux Mint :  Linux Mint is a stable, robust, and elegant Ubuntu-based distribution. One of the reasons behind its popularity is the fact that up until version 17.x it included out of the box a lot of useful software (such as multimedia codecs). However, this ended with version 18, leaving it up to ...

Tired of heavy and sluggish browsers?  Becoming minimalistic in life might achieve you a sigh of relief. You say what's the connection between minimalism and browsers? I say yes there is, what if all extensions and other plugins which make the browsers crawl were removed and you had a browser which only did its very basic job, browsing. 'Min' is here to help you with a distraction free browsing. Min Is a Minimal, Open-Source Web Browser for Linux, Mac and windows.  Min isn’t attempting to feature leap Firefox or compete with Chrome but it is here to provide a very basic featured browser based on the 'keep it simple make it smooth' principle > What Min does to increase speed?  The app shuts advanced features like add-on frameworks, UI transitions and window chrome to focus on delivering a clean, straightforward web experience. While Min probably won’t become your default web-browser it’s ideally suited to focused, distraction-free web-bas...

      Linux 'terminal' is actually not a terminal.! The abundantly used 'Terminal' in Linux/Unix is actually not a terminal. The modern day 'Terminal' is actually a pseudo terminal, or an emulator to be precise, where you can execute your commands. A terminal, historically, was a device connected to a computing system over a serial connector. The modern systems have emulators with a GUI. The actual definitions are as below, they are interconnected, but different, terms: 1. Terminal: A special kernel-provided device that handles textual input/output and supports the backbone of job control. It works with the keyboard and display drivers to read keystrokes and write to the screen.   2. Terminal window: A GUI window with nothing but a text terminal inside it. Usually synonymous with a terminal emulator.   3. Console: The control panel where you sit and do stuff. Very general term and means very different things to very different kinds of...