In search of the Best KDE Linux distro of 2013: A comparison of 19 leading KDE operating systems
KDE is possibly the most versatile desktop environment that I've used. It ships with a host of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, BSD, Windows, and even Mac OS X. I don't know of any other desktop environment with that capability. Today almost all major Linux distros have a KDE version and distros like OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, Kubuntu, SolydK, PCBSD, etc. have KDE spins as their
Expanding a disk with ubuntu and virtualbox
I have no more free space in my virtualbox disk. And i created the disk as "static" which is an obstacle when you want to expand the disk:
The disk says "Format variant: fixed"
The first thing you have to do, just clone the disk. Once cloned, it will be dynamic:
Now, i changed the original disk with this new one in the Virtual Box GUI Management and everything was smooth.
Next, i just resized the disk to have 20 Gig instead of only 4 Gig
Now i started the ubuntu desktop to use gparted and resize the guest operating system:
Choose to "Try Ubuntu"
Make sure to choose the right disk, i can not take any responsibility if something of this goes wrong:
I was not able to move the swap disk, so i removed it with fdisk.
fdisk /dev/sda
d 5
d 2
w
And then i started gparted again. Now i was able to resize the partition. Then, i rebooted the virtual machine and opened gparted again. Added the swap partition and rebooted.
walter@walter-Lenovo-Z480:~/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb$ VBoxManage modifyhd Linux1.vdi --resize 20000
0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
VBoxManage: error: Resize hard disk operation for this format is not implemented yet!
The disk says "Format variant: fixed"
walter@walter-Lenovo-Z480:~/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb$ VBoxManage showhdinfo Linux1.vdi
UUID: 3492e240-1589-479f-a6d7-f58586a7a671
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /home/walter/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb/Linux1.vdi
Storage format: VDI
Format variant: fixed default
Capacity: 4853 MBytes
Size on disk: 4854 MBytes
In use by VMs: intraweb (UUID: 76173fac-f9b3-4cf9-9daf-06e363eecd6d)
The first thing you have to do, just clone the disk. Once cloned, it will be dynamic:
walter@walter-Lenovo-Z480:~/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb$ VBoxManage clonehd Linux1.vdi Linux1d.vdi
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone hard disk created in format 'VDI'. UUID: e8f06a57-805e-464f-8cbc-3e23d082a003
walter@walter-Lenovo-Z480:~/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb$ VBoxManage showhdinfo Linux1d.vdi
UUID: e8f06a57-805e-464f-8cbc-3e23d082a003
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /home/walter/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb/Linux1d.vdi
Storage format: VDI
Format variant: dynamic default
Capacity: 4853 MBytes
Size on disk: 4475 MBytes
Now, i changed the original disk with this new one in the Virtual Box GUI Management and everything was smooth.
Next, i just resized the disk to have 20 Gig instead of only 4 Gig
walter@walter-Lenovo-Z480:~/VirtualBox VMs/intraweb$ VBoxManage modifyhd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/intraweb/Linux1d.vdi --resize 20000
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Now i started the ubuntu desktop to use gparted and resize the guest operating system:
I was not able to move the swap disk, so i removed it with fdisk.
fdisk /dev/sda
d 5
d 2
w
And then i started gparted again. Now i was able to resize the partition. Then, i rebooted the virtual machine and opened gparted again. Added the swap partition and rebooted.
Linux Mint 16 KDE Review: With KDE 4.11.3 and offers superb performance!
It is not easy for a distro to stay number 1 in Distrowatch ranking for last 2-3 years displacing operating systems like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc. And Linux Mint is doing the same release after release, each release beating previous releases in terms of functionality and performance. The latest release from Mint stable is Linux Mint 16, code named "Petra". First the Cinnamon and Mate spins
Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" KDE Review: With KDE 4.11.4 & kernel 3.12 now, bleeding edge but stable!
Honestly
when I started using Linux back in 2009, I didn't like Fedora much.
Ubuntu was my choice for being easy, fast and efficient. However, as I
matured as a Linux user, my fondness of Fedora increased. I reviewed
Fedora 19 in July 2013 and was very impressed with the performance it
offered. Fedora's latest release Fedora 20 "Heisenbug", named after a
bug, was released on 17-Dec-2013.
Linux Deepin 2013 Review: Refreshing and Elegant but with some minor quirks!
Linux Deepin has always been a special distro to me - an Asian distro with a distinct theme and an elegant attractive interface. This Chinese distro ships with it's own home-grown desktop environment: Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), based on GNOME 3 along with a host of goodies that makes it very usable for common Linux users. I was very impressed with the previous release 12.12.1 and once the
Calculate Linux 13.11 Review: Gentoo Simplified and works well with Nvidia hybrid graphics!
After more than 2 years of trying out more than 200 different distros, I noticed that I haven't really cut my teeth onto a couple of Linux branches, Gentoo and Slackware, that much. I don't directly jump to Gentoo in this article but take up a Gentoo spin, Calculate Linux. It is a Russian distro based on Gentoo Linux and has a rolling release, which means that once you install you need not to
Linux Mint 16 "Petra" Cinnamon and Mate Review: Mint has done it again!
We have all seen Ubuntu 13.10 and the incremental improvements that it brought. Though the distro in itself was really good but it wasn't something tempting enough to actually leave Ubuntu Precise, the LTS one with support till April 2017, and adopt Ubuntu Saucy Salamander, with 6 months of support. At that point in time, I thought Mint would make it's release pretty soon. So, ultimately, on the
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