DDrescue Data Recovery Tool for Ubuntu 16.04. Install DDrescue (CLI Data Recovery Tool) on Ubuntu 16.04 DDRescue-GUI is a powerful tool (with graphical user interface) to recover data from corrupted hard drives and flash memories (USB drives) on Linux Ubuntu. To be more specific, DDRescue-GUI uses the dump (dd) tool. DDRescue-GUI application is implemented in … Read more
You can manage what components of the official repositories to make available to download in your catalog by using the Software Sources tool, which you can select from the Edit menu in Ubuntu Software Center. The Ubuntu Software tab is shown in Figure. Here you can: • Select the repository components downloadable from the Internet. … Read more
If you’ve switched to Ubuntu from Windows, there’s a very good chance that the security failings of Windows featured in your decision. Windows 7 contains many improvements, but Microsoft’s record on security over the past few years has not been great. New and serious security warnings have appeared on an ongoing basis, and even now, … Read more
But Linux wasn’t a complete OS. It was just a kernel, unable to do anything useful without programs running in top of it. So Linux was in search of programs already available for free that emulated the working environment of a UNIX-like computer… which was exactly what the GNU project was producing. Meanwhile the GNU … Read more
CentOS 7 is out and it will likely prove to be a great alternative for Fedora. CentOS 6 was also a good choice, but it lacked many features of a modern desktop since its core was based on Fedora 12-13. The latest CentOS 7 derives from RHEL 7 which is primarily based on Fedora 19 … Read more