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.
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Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Squeeze
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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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Happy 10th Anniversary, Dear Groklaw!
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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.
Read more »SlateBook x2: Tegra 4-powered Android hybrid
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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.
Read more »ROSA Desktop Fresh LXDE alpha preview
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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
Read more »The Perfect Server - Debian Wheezy (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
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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 »Apache OpenOffice: Help pick a new logo
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The six entries are shown below. If you did not participate in the original survey, this is your chance to have an input. I did not participate in the original survey, but if I did, the order that these images are shown below shows how I would have rated them, from highest to lowest.
Read more »Enable Shortcodes in WPtouch
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With over four million downloads, WPtouch is perhaps the most popular WordPress plugin to make your website mobile ready. WPtouch doesn't process shortcodes from your main Wordpress theme, so the shortcodes end up getting displayed on the mobile version of your site. I'll show you how to modify WPtouch so that your main theme's shortcodes work on the mobile version of your site.
Read more »International Space Station to Run Debian 6
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Dozens of laptops will make the change to Debian 6. They join many other systems aboard the ISS that already run various flavors of GNU/Linux, such as Red Hat and Scientific Linux. Of high priority is having an OS which gives in-house control.
Read more »Using ngx_pagespeed With nginx On Debian Wheezy
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Google has just released PageSpeed Beta for nginx, the nginx equivalent of mod_pagespeed for Apache. This module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times. This tutorial explains how to use PageSpeed with nginx on Debian Wheezy.
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3.
Read more »Howto: Changing the expiry date of GPG keys
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GnuPG keys can have an expiry date. When the key expires, it cannot be used to encrypt data anymore, and thus is a good way to enforce security measures. However, what most people does not seem to know is that this expiry date can be changed quite easily.
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What's in a (Free Software project) name?
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Trademarks, names and reputation. Glyn Moody looks at the problems that arise when trying to keep control of your reputation and the different approaches taken by open source software projects.
Read more »Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler (Seriously)
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"Firefox 20.0 has a nifty little feature of its 'Inspector' tool that allows you to view HTML elements as 3D objects, I wanted to use it for something it wasn't intended for: 3D Modeling"
Read more »The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 13.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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