Projects tagged ‘operating_system’ and ‘ubuntu’

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!

Kubuntu is a a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like ... [More] users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment, meaning that it will run fast while still delivering a user-friendly interface. Older computers feel lively again, while newer ones will run faster than ever before!

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.

Nexenta Operating System is a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland. Nexenta Operating System runs on Intel/AMD 32/64bit hardware and is ... [More] distributed as a single installable CD. Upgrades and binary packages not included on the CD can be installed from NexentaOS repository using Advanced Packaging Tool. In addition, source based software components can be downloaded from network repositories available at Debian/GNU Linux and Ubuntu Linux. [Less]

From the home page: "Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." Linux Mint is freely available, complete desktop oriented GNU/Linux ... [More] distribution based on Ubuntu. It is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories with its own additions and replacements. It has its own desktop design and UI improvements and its own GUI administration tools. Linux Mint is known to be designed for ease of use and maximal out-of-the-box functionality for desktop user. After installation you have for example working support for common media including most used proprietary codecs (flash, DVD playback, divx and so on). [Less]

StormOS is the first distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2.0 RC1 which combines the power of the Solaris kernel with the ease of use of Ubuntu. StormOS aims to be a lightweight OS with everything the average user would want out-of-the-box.

Linux Mint XFCE is a lightweight community edition of Linux Mint built around XFCE desktop. The desktop is not the only change against the main edition, it has modified configuration, its own ... [More] configuration tools and different default set of applications. From the Linux Mint home page: "Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." Linux Mint is freely available, complete desktop oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Linux Mint is known to be designed for ease of use and maximal out-of-the-box functionality for desktop user. After installation you have for example working support for common media including most used proprietary codecs (flash, DVD playback, divx and so on [Less]