Download and install Peppermint 6

Download and install Peppermint 6 and revives an old computer or with limited resources.




















 Peppermint 6 is a distro Linux based in Lubuntu, one of the officers 'flavors' of Ubuntu that can be found now on the market. In case anyone does not know, it's worth remembering that Lubuntu uses LXDE desktop, one of the lightest that currently exist, and Peppermint OS 6 has undergone some cosmetic changes.

This kind of remix of Lubuntu is available in two standard versions, each depending on the architecture of the computer you're using that is i386 and amd64-, and you can download the ISO image to the end of the article.

Both the image of Peppermint 6 for 32-bit systems, such as the image for 64-bit systems, weighing approximately 700 MB each. Once you've downloaded the image that corresponds to your architecture, we recommend that you transfer the contents to a bootable USB to install or test system faster and more stable.

 Main features of Peppermint 6:



 

Being based on an operating system that has the "mother" of Ubuntu, Peppermint 6 incorporates a boot menu in the live session is reminiscent of Lubuntu. This menu allows the user to test the system without having to install, install the operating system directly, test memory, boot from the local hard drive or find fault with the disc. This last option is available only if we start from a CD and not from a USB.
One of the biggest attractions of Peppermint 6 is its highly personalized LXDE version, which uses a unique distribution panel we see at the bottom of the screen. Besides this, the visuals have a white theme inspired by the art developed for the operating system.
The main applications of Peppermint 6 are, among others, PCManFM file manager, viewer iimágenes Mirage, GNOME MPlayer player, the Chromium browser, audio player Guayadeque and the Gedit text editor, as well as an unexpected additions Dropbox client.

What do you need to install Peppermint 6?
 
 
 
 
 As a distribution based on Lubuntu, Peppermint 6 uses LXDE and therefore is focused on old or limited to using this distro probably revive resources teams. Still, before downloading should take into account the system requirements to ensure proper operation.
Minimum requirements for Peppermint 6

     256 MB of RAM
     Processor based on the Intel x86 architectures
     At least 3 GB of space on your hard disk.

Recommended requirements Peppermint 6

     512 MB of RAM
     Processor based on the Intel x86 architectures
     At least 4 GB of space on your hard disk.

If you have an older PC or limited, and think Peppermint 6 may be the solution for you, go to the buttons you see below to give it a try.

Pinguy OS based on Ubuntu

Many users of Ubuntu and distributions derived from the solution of Canonical certainly look forward to this news, which refers to a new distribution which is based precisely on Ubuntu but based on that point then added much of what users may need.

 

 

 

 
WebUpd8 us about Pinguy OS, a distribution that is a Ubuntu "remastered" that integrates a lot of default applications, plus PPA repositories enabled by default, which for example allow from the beginning count with
CoverGloobus, Gloobus Preview, GNOME Do or Docky.

 

 

 

 

Download: http://pinguyos.com/

Install XFCE 4.10 in Linux Mint 15

In the terminal execute the follow commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4

 Then of this, close our session and choose the desktop XFCE.



Install Nagios 4.0.8 on Ubuntu 15.04

Nagios® Core™ is an Open Source system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better.Nagios Core was originally designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other unices as well.
Nagios Features
Some of the many features of Nagios Core include:
Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.)
Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks
Parallelized service checks
Ability to define network host hierarchy using "parent" hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
Automatic log file rotation
Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.

Preparing your system
First You need to make sure you have install Ubuntu 15.04 LAMP Server and once you have that follow the next steps.
Switch to root user and run the all the commands

sudo su --

Install the following packages

apt-get install build-essential php5-gd wget libgd2-xpm-dev libapache2-mod-php5 apache2-utils daemon

You need to create nagios user,nagcmd group and add the nagios,apache user to the part of nagcmd group

useradd nagios
groupadd nagcmd
usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios
usermod -a -G nagcmd www-data

Download Nagios core DIY Source from here

cd /tmp/
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-4.0.8.tar.gz
tar -zxvf /tmp/nagios-4.0.8.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagios-4.0.8/

Compile and install Nagios Using the following commands

make all
make install
make install-init
make install-config
make install-commandmode
make install-webconf
make install-exfoliation

Configure Nagios web Interface
Create nagiosadmin account using the following command

htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

Enable CGI module and restart the apache2 server

a2enmod cgi

service apache2 restart

Install Nagios Plugins
Download and install nagios plugins using the following commands

cd /tmp
wget http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf /tmp/nagios-plugins-2.0.3.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagios-plugins-2.0.3/

Compile and install nagios plugins using the following commands

./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make
make install

Start Nagios
Verify the sample nagios configuration files using the following command

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Output
Nagios Core 4.0.8
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last Modified: 08-12-2014
License: GPL
Website: http://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
Read main config file okay...
Read object config files okay...
Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
Checking objects...
Checked 8 services.
Checked 1 hosts.
Checked 1 host groups.
Checked 0 service groups.
Checked 1 contacts.
Checked 1 contact groups.
Checked 24 commands.
Checked 5 time periods.
Checked 0 host escalations.
Checked 0 service escalations.
Checking for circular paths...
Checked 1 hosts
Checked 0 service dependencies
Checked 0 host dependencies
Checked 5 timeperiods
Checking global event handlers...
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
Checking misc settings...
Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors: 0
Things look okay -- No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check
If you are not seeing any errors the start nagios using the following

/etc/init.d/nagios start

When i try to start the nagios i got the following error and found out there is an issue with nagios init script

[....] Starting nagios (via systemctl): nagios.serviceFailed to start nagios.service: Unit nagios.service failed to load: No such file or directory. failed!

Solution to nagios init script
Copy /etc/init.d/skeleton to /etc/init.d/nagios using the following command

cp /etc/init.d/skeleton /etc/init.d/nagios

Now edit the nagios file

vi nagios

add the following lines

DESC="Nagios"
NAME=nagios
DAEMON=/usr/local/nagios/bin/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS="-d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg"
PIDFILE=/usr/local/nagios/var/$NAME.lock

Save and exit the file
Finally you need to change the permissions of the file

chmod +x /etc/init.d/nagios

You can start the nagios using the following command

/etc/init.d/nagios start

Ouput
* Starting Nagios [ OK ]


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Install qBittorrent on Ubuntu 15.04

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD).

qBittorrent Features
Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
Per-category-specific search requests


Install qBittorrent on Ubuntu 15.04
Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

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Kali Linux on Android using Linux Deploy

Kali Linux on any Android Phone or Tablet

Getting Kali Linux to run on ARM hardware has been a major goal for us since day one. So far, we’ve built native images for the Samsung Chromebook, Odroid U2, Raspberry Pi, RK3306, Galaxy Note 10.1, CuBox, Efika MX, and BeagleBone Black to name a few. This however does not mean you cannot install Kali Linux in a chroot on almost any modern device that runs Android. In fact, the developers of Linux Deploy have made it extremely easy to get any number of Linux distributions installed in a chroot environment using a simple GUI builder.

Prerequisites

• A device running Android 2.1 and above, rooted.
• At least 5 GB free space on internal or external storage.
• A fast, wireless internet connection.
• Patience to wait for a distribution to bootstrap from the network.

Configuring Linux Deploy for Kali

There’s actually very little to be done to get Kali installed. By choosing Kali Linux in the “Distribution” tab, you’ve pretty much covered the important stuff. Optionally, you can choose your architecture, verify that the Kali mirror is correct, set your installation type and location on your Android device, etc. Generally speaking, the defaults provided by Linux Deploy are good to begin with.

Building the Kali Image

Once you are happy with all the settings, hitting the “install” button will start a Kali Linux bootstrap directly from our repositories. Depending on your Internet connection speed, this process could take a while. You’ll be downloading a base install of Kali Linux (with no tools) at minimum.

Starting up your chrooted Kali

Once the installation is complete, you can have Linux Deploy automatically mount and load up your Kali Linux chroot image. This also includes the starting of services such as SSH and VNC for easier remote access. All of this is automagically done by hitting the “start” button. You should see Linux Deploy setting up your image with output similar to the following:

At this stage, Linux Deploy has started a VNC and SSH server inside your chrooted Kali image. You can connect to the Kali session remotely using the IP address assigned to your Android device (in my case, 10.0.0.10).

Logging in to your chrooted Kali

Now you can use either a SSH or VNC client to access your Kali instance. The VNC password is “changeme” and the SSH credentials are “android” for the username (configured via Linux Deploy) and “changeme” as the password.

muts@slim:~$ ssh android@10.0.0.10
android@10.0.0.10 password:
Linux localhost 3.4.5-447845 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 12 17:22:34 KST 2013 armv7l
Kali GNU/Linux 1.0 [running on Android via Linux Deploy] android@localhost:~$ sudo su
root@localhost:/home/android# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/loop3 4180944 667268 3304012 17% /
tmpfs 952708 80 952628 1% /dev
tmpfs 952708 0 952708 0% /dev/shm
root@localhost:/home/android#
root@localhost:/home/android# apt-get update
Hit http://http.kali.org kali Release.gpg
Hit http://http.kali.org kali Release
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/main Sources
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/contrib Sources
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/non-free Sources
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/main armel Packages
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/contrib armel Packages
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/non-free armel Packages
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-en
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/non-free Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
root@localhost:/home/android#

Image Size Considerations

If left unchanged, Linux Deploy will automatically set an image size of around 4 GB, for a “naked” installation of Kali. If you would like to install additional Kali tools down the road, you might want to consider using a larger image size, which is configurable via the settings in Linux Deploy.

Local VNC Connections

We had to try a couple of VNC clients to get one to work properly. Although controlling Kali through a local VNC client isn’t the most convenient of tasks, it certainly is possible. However, we suspect that most people will be SSH’ing into this instance. The picture below was overlayed with a Kali Linux desktop screenshot taken from a Galaxy S4.

 

How to change the color in the control panel of Elementary OS Freya

This feature is not an element that we can configure, using Tweaks or through of the dconf-editor changing some parameter of the system.












 This depend of our theme that we are using in our desktop also our wallpaper.

We should work with a copy of our theme, for this we need pantheon-files.
Location in the folder /usr/share/themes










Rename our copy:





 Using Tweaks for change our new theme, just we have to change the value in the GTK+THEME.





Go to the folder renamed:



 In the folder gtk-3.0 edit the archive gtk.css









 We what the next:



 Insert the follow lines:

.panel {
    background-color: #b1c0dd; 
}


.composited-indicator {
    color: white;
}

 Then execute the follow command:

$killall wingpanel

And then We could change the values for anothers colours than we like to have.