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The most popular PowerPC emulation tools for Mac OS/Mac OS X are Microsoft's Virtual PC, and the open-source QEMU. [8] Linux dual-booting is achieved by partitioning the boot drive, installing the Yaboot bootloader onto the Linux partition, and selecting that Linux partition as the Startup Disk. This results in users being prompted to select ...
Phosh (portmanteau of phone and shell) is a graphical user interface designed for mobile and touch-based devices initially developed by Purism. The project is maintained and developed by a diverse community, and is the default shell used on several mobile Linux operating systems including PureOS , Mobian and Fedora Phosh .
PureOS is designed to include only free software, and is included in the list of Free Linux distributions published by the Free Software Foundation. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] PureOS is a Debian -based Linux distribution, merging open-source software packages from the Debian “testing” main archive using a hybrid point release and rolling release model. [ 9 ]
Fedora Linux [7] is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies.
Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003. [12] It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9. Some of the features in Fedora Core 1 included: [13] Version 2.4.19 of the Linux kernel; Version 2.4 of the GNOME Desktop Environment (GNOME); Version 3.1 of the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives generally include the union set [clarification needed], which is included in the different versions of RHEL.The version numbers are typically identical to the ones featured in RHEL; as such, the free versions maintain binary compatibility with the paid-for version, which means software intended for RHEL typically runs just as well on a free version.
Transmission allows users to quickly download files from multiple peers on the Internet and to upload their own files. [7] By adding torrent files via the user interface, users can create a queue of files to be downloaded and uploaded. Within the file selection menus, users can customise their downloads at the level of individual files.
The torrent system has been created to ease the load on central servers, as instead of having individual clients fetch files from the server, torrent can crowd-source the bandwidth needed for the file transfer and reduce the time needed to download large files. Many free/freeware programs and operating systems, such as the various Linux ...