The Legend of Edgar 1.00 is now available. This release adds a short introduction to set up the story.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »The Liberated Pixel Cup: a game making contest from the CC, FSF, and OpenGameArt
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OpenGameArt.org, the Free Software Foundation, and the Creative Commons are teaming up to bring the Liberated Pixel Cup, a free-as-in-freedom game making contest starting on June 1st and going through July 31st.
Read more »What one line of code can teach us
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Glyn Moody looks at an example of how a patent on one line of code can inhibit innovation for a generation and how that lesson should not be forgotten when the government is asking what an open standard is.
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ROMP: Media player with built-in desktop recorder
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The other feature worth writing about, is ROSA Media Player, or ROMP. It is a media player with a feature you will not find in Totem or other media players in other Linux or BSD desktop distributions. It is actually a fork of SMPlayer and was first released in November 2011.
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Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.2 Server
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This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.2 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
Read more »KLook: A Swiss Army Knife of media type viewers
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The application I am referring to, is called KLook. That is “look” prefixed with a “K.” What KLook does, is give you the ability to view images, text files (.txt), listen to audio and play video files from one application in a slideshow fashion.
Read more »Dr. Geo Android, call for tests
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Dr. Geo, the free interactive geometry software, will soon land on Android. ... I am looking for Android tablet owners to test it on various association of hardware and Android brand. If you are interested to participate to this test campaign, write me privately at hilaire at drgeo dot eu
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Create an app for MintChip and win 10 oz of GOLD or 1 Gold Wafer
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Think of MintChip as Bitcoin, but backed by a country. Bitcoin is cross-platform, with applications available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The Royal Canadian Mint wants to do the same for MintChip. To spur the effort, they are sponsoring a MintChip Challenge, a competition for developers.
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How to install Jitsi in Fedora
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Installation involves downloading and installing Jitsi’s .rpm package from here. After you click on the package link, the window shown below should open. Rather than opening it in Apper, Fedora’s graphical package manager, save it to your home directory.
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Early Easter present in Fedora 17 beta
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So Fedora 17 beta was supposed to have been released on April 3. Today is April 5 and we are still waiting. But that is the way it is with the Fedora project. Release dates are not set in concrete. They will release something when it is ready, not to meet a predetermined release schedule.
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High-Availability Replicated Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 11.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.
Read more »Should you be worried about Ubuntu Desktop’s privacy settings?
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You will find one of those new features in System Settings, the hub for most graphical administrative tools in Ubuntu and GNOME 3 desktops in general. The tool or application is called Privacy. What it does is not new per se, but new in the manner it executes them.
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Two Weeks With Bodhi Linux 1.4.0
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Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu. It makes use of the Enlightenment window manager and includes several unique features you won’t find on any other distro. I switched over to the recent release of Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 for two weeks and grew to love this little lightweight.
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Install Jitsi 1.0 in Debian, Linux Mint and Ubuntu
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Where other VoIP services and clients send data in the clear, Jitsi sets itself apart by making use of ZRTP to set up secure communication with SRTP, Secure Real-time Transport Protocol.
Version 1.0 was released on April 3. This article shows how to install it on Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu or any other distribution derived from Debian.
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