Martha Arbayani Zaidan

I have been using Ubuntu 16.4 (Linux) recently and I love it. At beginning, my work place offered me various operating systems for my work computer, including Windows 10 and OS-X.  However, I opted to use a Linux-based operating system. There are several main reasons personally why I force myself to use Linux: It is a free operating system.  It is the main operating system used in 99% supercomputer in the world [1]. Currently, I am also using a supercomputer cluster to support my scientific works. As an engineer, I may need to utilise different kinds of computing platform, such as Raspberry Pi . The Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends the use of Raspbian , a Debian-based Linux operating system [2]. Many other hardware have been used Linux for their operating systems. For example, Robot Operating System ( ROS ), that is an open source robotics platform on Linux [3]. This comes back to point 1, since it is a free operating system, it has been utilised to develop further other oper

Hello all, I am not a Linux expert (yet), but I will share my experience a bit here about: how I back-up my data safely and efficiently. However, this is only my personal option and opinion, some experts may have a better and efficient method in doing this. From my experience, there are several ways how to backup our data: Using free cloud storage, such as Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive External hard-drive Data server In this article, I will share my experience in backing up my data using Ubuntu (Linux). This article should also be useful for Mac OS users. As I mentioned in my another article , I have been using Linux due to several reasons. However, one of the main issue in using Linux, there is no official version of Google Drive, that is my favourite cloud storage due to 15 GB free space (at starting). Although I could install Dropbox, but it only gives 2 GB free space initially (before inviting other people to use the Dropbox service). As a scientist, who work