This is a very interesting piece of software not only because of its exciting features but also because its developed by a 15yr old teenager! Yes you read it right.. Just 15yrs old.. and that's Sarath Lakshman from Kerala, India. Here's an article on him in The Hindu.
He seems to have modified the Knoppix to get this kind of user friendly operating system. "User-friendly" is the right word for describing this operating system because of its Windows operating system look and layout. All of them know Windows, so to make it easier for Linux beginner's Sarath used similar UI. Those were his intentions when he started with this project- help familiarize Linux to the beginners.

Some of the features in short...

• Can run on CD without any installation.. that is the Live CD feature
• Its takes up 2gb after complete installation where you have loads of applications
• Comes with Malayalam font!
  
• Has good driver support for almost all kinds of modem, digital camera's and printers.
• Detects all Windows file system's.
• Wide variety of application support for multimedia playback, web browsing, image editing and office tasks.

The new version of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx 10.04 got released on April 29th. I was glad to see quite a few improvements in it.The last time i had installed Ubuntu was the older version Karmic Koala, the 9.10 version. It seemed to had a lot of bugs and i was very disappointed as i was quite a fan of Ubuntu 9.04. But 10.04 seems to give the impression that its going to be better than 9.04!




Let me just outline some of the exciting new features of Lucid.
First of all the boot up. Ubuntu had never been this fast! In a normal machine it could load within 15-20 seconds. Ubuntu is really obsessed with improving the boot time!

Ubuntu have come up with a unique way to attract users! Every ubuntu user gets 2gb of free CLOUD SPACE!! Also there is Ubuntu One Music store which can sync with your cloud space. Now isn't that cool??!

The new Ubuntu seems to provide good driver support. I must say this is the only Linux distro supporting my laptop (with the new Core i3 processor) right now. Drivers for my display and the audio got installed automatically. Only the Broadcom driver for wireless internet connectivity was missing which i easily installed through the "Hardware driver" tool. Its an inbuilt tool that searches for all the drivers that are compatible with your hardware.

Lucid also seems to bring some relief among social networking addicts! Gwibber, a social client that comes along with Lucid can keep track of all your microblogging and stuffs.

Now to the downside of Lucid. I have been using Lucid for about 2 weeks now and have had 2 crashes already. Lucid still needs to be worked on its stability. As far as the bug mentioned in the Phoronix, doesnt seem to cause problem to me anyway!

Backtrack, the highest rated and acclaimed linux security distribution till date. In simple words its an operating system that comes pre installed with all the software's u need for Hacking... Penetration testing or "Ethical hacking" that is.. :)

Backtrack is a very handy tool. Its lightweight and runs fine on VMware or any other virtualization tools. A person with average interest in hacking can start off with backtrack. Also the beautiful dark interface makes it very interesting.

Want to mess with wireless, exploit servers, perform web application assessment or social engineer a client?? then BACKTRACK is the one stop shop fo u..

Fedora, the linux based operating system has released another version Fedora 12. All the new out softwares included in this makes it a complete package. You are never out of any softwares when your using Fedora! Free, simple and complete describe Fedora well. Thats what has made it the no.1 distro!