Find Available Repositories for Ubuntu

While doing research for an article, I stumbled upon a one-stop-shop for Ubuntu repositories. Quite a find, a website that has an “Ubuntu Sources List Generator” (You can find the website HERE).  Basically, in the first two drop-down boxes, “click” your country, and your Ubuntu operating system (Precise, Trusty, Wily, or Xenial).  Next, from an… Continue reading Find Available Repositories for Ubuntu

SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU INSTALL LINUX

The Linux Penguin

Some Background: The Linux operating system kernel was released by Linus Torvalds in 1991. From its inception, the software is very Unix-like, and shares many command line entries with Unix as well.  Linux is open source software (basically, this means the source code license allows the user to freely change, improve, and distribute the software).… Continue reading SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU INSTALL LINUX