Category Operating Systems

Disk Partition Tables

A partition table or partition scheme is a resource that allocates all partitions within the system. Type of partition table: MBR Master Boot Record (MBR) is older than GPT. GPT Each partition within a GUID Partition Table (GPT) uses a…

Linux Desktop Environments

This post summarizes the main free and open-source (FOSS) desktop environments for Unix-like and Linux OSs. List of Linux Desktop Environments List of Linux desktop environments: The most popular are KDE Plasma and GNOME. Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Common Desktop…

Introduction to Android

Android is an open source operating system aimed for portable devices, but also present in desktop devices. Its kernel is a modified version of Linux kernel. This post is an introduction to the operating system. Explaining Android Android is developed…

Linux Touch-based User Interfaces

This post list some touch-based user interfaces for Linux operating systems. List of Linux Touch-based User Interfaces Touch-based Linux User Interfaces featured on this post: Lomiri Lomiri, originally Unity8, is a touch-based graphical user interface (GUI). It was originally developed…