An unusual offer from Linux notes from DarkDuck

Hello my dear readers!

You have probably read articles on this blog about the cloud storage integration with Linux: Yandex.Disk and OneDrive from Microsoft.

These articles are really popular and they get their readers every day.

Both of these articles contain the referral links that allow you to get additional web storage space for free. Apart from that, I received free storage for every subscriber with the referral link.

The total amount of free referral storage is limited on both services, and I have now reached that capacity. Also, Yandex.Disk closed the referral program. OneDrive program still continues.

It means I can replace the OneDrive link in the article with any other - and that can be yours! People who read the article about OneDrive solution for Linux will have a chance to click the referral link, get additional free storage and add some storage to your own cloud drive.

Sounds interesting?

Then simply send me your referral OneDrive link! It is in the Options - Manage Storage part of the OneDrive site.

 I'll do the rest.

Enjoy! :)

Peppermint Eight – Stairway to Cloud

The recent tendency in our technology world is to move from using your personal computer for storage and processing of data to cloud-based storage and processing.

There are very few people now who have never heard about cloud-based file storage facilities, email, office packages and so on. Even ERP systems are now moving to cloud, for example SAP actively promotes HANA-based cloud solutions.

There are some distributions that use the cloud paradigm and offer the user cloud-based solutions in a single package.

One of these distributions is Peppermint OS. I wrote about Peppermint Three almost five years ago, in September 2012. Since then, Peppermint has seen several releases, and the most current version now is Peppermint Eight, based on Ubuntu 16.04.

You can download Peppermint from one of the several mirrors, or using a torrent. The ISO image of Peppermint Eight 64-bit is about 1.3 GB in size. Once downloaded, I "burnt" the ISO image onto my USB stick. This USB stick is in the port of my Dell Inspirion 17 laptop.

Reboot. Choose to boot from USB. Fasten your seatbelts! Let's go to the cloud!

Cracking The Data Safety Code

Keeping our data safe online is something that we get told about a lot. That is because as members of the information generation, it's all too easy for our most valuable assets our identity and privacy to be compromised. But how can we keep our data safer? Read on to find out.

601

It is difficult to believe in, but this is post number 601 in this blog.

No more words today.

Ditto!

Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon: Quick Screenshot Tour

Linux Mint is one of the operating systems that release the new versions regularly. However, dislike Ubuntu and Fedora releases, Linux Mint only releases "when ready", more like the Debian operating system.

The most recent release of Linux Mint was named Sonya and has the version number 18.2. This is the third release in the Linux Mint 18 series that is based on Ubuntu 16.04. It saw the light on the 2nd of July 2017.

Let's have a quick screenshot tour through the Live DVD version of Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 32-bit.