This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3.
Read more »ROSA Desktop Fresh LXDE alpha preview
Since this release is the first alpha edition, it is not feature complete, but some important components are already in place, while some others have yet to be implemented. A short list of the main features that are already in place follows
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SlateBook x2: Tegra 4-powered Android hybrid
The Tegra 4-powered SlateBook x2 running Android Jelly Bean (4.2.2) is the latest split-personality portable computer from HP. Detailed hardware specs have not be made available, but we do know that if will have an IPS panel with a screen resolution of 1920×1200, USB and HDMI ports.
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Dear Groklaw!
Groklaw is 10 years old as of today. Over the years its community has worked as a group to explain technology to the legal world and explain the legal process to techies. The combined result has helped defend Free and Open Source Software from cynical copyright/patent/trademark attacks from the proprietary world.
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Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Squeeze
TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger (> 500 pages), it is getting very slow. Fortunately, you can replace it with a search extension that uses the ultra-fast Apache Solr search server. This tutorial explains how to use Apache Solr with TYPO3 on Debian Squeeze.
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Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” RC released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” RC. Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project. MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center.
Read more »Mageia 3′s out!
It's been almost a year since Mageia 2 was released. The Mageia team is now proud to announce that Mageia 3 has been released. We still can’t believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we’ve been doing it for two and a half years.
What’s new in Mageia 3?
You can take a look at the complete list of packages upgraded from Mageia 2, by checking the Mageia Apps Database:
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Antergos Linux 2013.05.12 review
What I typically look for in desktop distributions are a good graphical installation, a sane and sensible default desktop configuration that just work, and all the graphical tools that will make managing the desktop easy for all users, especially those not familiar or not willing to use the command-line.
Does this first release of Antergos meet those criteria? Read on to find out.
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Leveraging free software to build the ultimate backdoor
Rakshasa is a creation of Jonathan Brossard to backdoor hardware. It's OS independent and fairly permanent: you can even swap your hard disk and it will prevail. it uses Coreboot and other free software packages to work its magic. Are you sure what lives in your firmwares?
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Hybryde Fusion: A very unique Linux distribution
From the release number, you can probably guess that it is based on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. But what you cannot guess from the name or release number is that it ships with its own desktop environment called HY-D-V1. It also makes it super easy to test-drive other desktop environments from the same installation, without ever rebooting the computer or logging out of the current desktop.
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Install HY-D-V1 desktop on Ubuntu 13.04
HY-D-V1 Desktop is a new desktop interface built atop GNOME 3 using a combination of Webkit, JavaScript, Python and HTML. It is the desktop environment on Hybryde Fusion.
This tutorial shows how to install it on Ubuntu 13.04 from the developer’s PPA.
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Distro Review: Xubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Xubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu Linux that uses the Xfce desktop environment for the user interface. It is one of the official derivatives of Ubuntu Linux. The intent is for Xubuntu to be easy to use while being attractive and light on system resources. For this review I tested the 32 bit Live environment as well as the 32 bit version installed to the hard drive of my MSI Wind netbook.
Read more »Chrome 27 comes with better load speeds and security fixes
The Chrome developers at Google have released version 27 of their browser to the Stable release channel for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer.
Read more »Howto: Managing dotfiles with dfm
Most system administrators have a set of personalized dotfiles like .vimrc and .bashrc. Taking these files with you from host to host and keeping them up2date everywhere can be a quite wearisome task. There are various tools to ease the pain, and I like to shed some light on one of them: dfm – the dotfile manager.
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Linpus Lite 1.9 review
Linpus Lite is one of those distributions that I’ve always hoped will be done right, considering that it is published by a commercial entity. However, with every release, it manages to fail in taking care of the little things that matter. Almost every desktop distribution suffers from the same problem.
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