While Fuduntu Linux has announced that it will be closing its doors very soon, there is another Linux distribution that fans of the operating system can look forward to. It’s called Manjaro Linux and some of its most remarkable features include a graphical installer and other user friendly features.

By February 2012, Manjaro had already attained the no. 15 spot in DistroWatch’s rankings. At present, it is at no. 10. Here are some of the things that you will find in this new release:

A graphical installer. In Manjaro 0.8.5., there is an impressive graphical installer and installation is easy. This is good news for those who are new to Linux. Currently there is support only for installing one hard drive and the rest will have to be done by a manual option.

Brand new settings manager. In this new version of Manjaro, there are new wizards that are helpful for guiding users as they install language localization packages.

Three desktop flavors. Here, there are desktop variations to choose from such as OpenBox, Xfce, and Net-Edition. If you want the basic packages, the latter is the one to go with..

What we know know about GNU Health is that it is a free open source software dedicated to keep medical records and provide a robust health information system. It is getting even more popular in terms of usage in some hospitals around the world. GNU Health is supported by GNU Solidario, Spain. This project was made with the help of a virtual community of medical specialists, hospital administration and software developers.

Now, more and more functionalities are being added to GNU Health to enhance its helpfulness and drive even more utility for the open source software. Sebastian Marro, one of the developers of GNU Health and its representative in the presentation at the Luxembourg Medetal Conference is completely positive to the open source software’s potential to grow larger. GNU Health now have recently-added features: it has now the functions to use in hospital human resource tasks, check the financial reporting of some departments, as well as patient admission. These are large scale features are very helpful for hospitals that have a huge database of patient, employee and medical information. GNU Health also enables doctors to keep track of the numbers of endemic diseases like dengue, leprosy, and many others.

GNU Health is a perfect example of how open source and the synchronicity of human goals to uplift the circumstances of public health and medical records produces astounding results. The software enables some hospitals from third world countries such as Nigeria, Zambia, and the Philippines among others to utilize software without the added financial burden.

The first day of the Linux Foundation’s seventh annual Linux Collaboration Summit that took place in San Francisco focused on the growth and success of the foundation. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation said that each day, about 10,519 lines of code are added to the Linux kernel and about 6,782 lines are subtracted from it giving the kernel an average of 7.38 changes per hour which is an extraordinary rate for any code base.

Zemlin opened the floor by describing the state of Linux as “freakishly awesome.” He went on by comparing Linux to that of a multi-million dollar R&D project that over 400 companies collaborate on, some of which are fierce competitors. He also described it as more than just an operating system and one of the greatest shared technology known to man.

On a separate keynote session, Jonathan Corbet, a kernel contributor and LWN.net editor said that even though Linux has been very successful to date, the pace of the kernel development is still accelerating. With significant milestones such as having the kernel 1.53 million lines bigger than how it was a year ago and the speed of kernel version releases increasing.

“Even though we’re getting busier and more active, we’ve gotten the process so smoothly functioning at this point that we’re able to get the releases out more frequently while we’re at it,” Corbet said. The collaboration summit continued for 3 days with more highlights including a possibility of a car running on Linux.

These days you do not have to worry about hardware the will only work with one particular operating system. Years ago hardware would only work with particular computers. So obtaining a printer, for example, that worked on both a Mac and Windows machine seem to be impossible. At first the issue was the connectivity. In other words what type of cable was it. Then once standards came about for cables we no longer had to worry about that issue as most computers used the same connections. These days the USB cable is common place among most all computers.

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