The hacker replaced the download link for Linux Mint with one which contained a backdoor called Tsunami-an attack which put “several hundred” systems with a fresh installation of Linux Mint in the hacker’s control, according to an interview with ZDNet’s Zach Whittaker. On February 20th, a hacker working under the handle “Peace” took control of the website of Linux Mint, a popular Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu (and Debian) targeted toward non-technical users and power users unhappy with modern desktop environments like GNOME 3, KDE Plasma 5, and Unity 7. Security vulnerabilities at the Linux Mint project highlight substantial issues with the popular Linux distribution, and the difficulty of maintaining a Linux distribution as a hobbyist project. Automatic Shudown is available in “Edit” menu.Why the Linux Mint hack is an indicator of a larger problem “Home Category is the default category”įor power saving purpose, automatic shutdown is the best process. Even for every category there are 4 options (Active, Queueing, Finished, Recycled). Place the download in those appropriate category. Instead of having a long list of downloads, we can have different categories according to the user request. if we click those boxes, it turns to which indicating that download wont be happen at those specific timings. once we check “Enable Scheduler” checkbox, all the boxes get green ( which means, download will be done all the time). Under settings we have a Scheduler pane in which we can set task based on our interest. Sometimes, automatic scheduling does the job easier. Steps are shown below.Īnother important quality of a download manager is scheduling. When we right click on downloads we get the properties screen where in we can set the number of active downloads. lets discuss elaborateįor queuing purpose i created a new catagory named “downloads”.

Simple and Elegant screens makes easy to perform downloads. Whenever we use a download manager we will be looking for few things. Uget is the as same as that which has a GUI. Initially i was trying wget and got to learn some stuffs since its an command line download manager. There should be a download manager in linux mint which can replace IDM.

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