Following a six-week public beta, The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced that the project's new extensions and templates repositories for LibreOffice are now online.
Read more »LibreOffice extensions and templates site now live
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ISPConfig 3/Debian Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web/Email/DNS/MySQL Servers
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This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS servers all managed trough a single ISPConfig 3 control panel. The setup described below uses five servers and can be extended easily to to a higher number of servers by just adding more servers. E.g.
Read more »GNU PDF project leaves FSF High Priority Projects list; mission complete!
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The goal of the GNU PDF project from its beginning in 2007 was to provide a complete implementation of the emerging ISO standard for PDF, ISO 32000-1.
Read more »Replicant: Making Android truly free
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Nearly everybody knows that Android is built on top of a Linux kernel, so that should mean that it is good old-fashioned open-source software, right? Actually, that’s not the case. […]
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04
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This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this.
Read more »Open Source Desktop Publishing News 2011
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The free software world moves rapidly, but every individual project also moves at its own pace and rhythm. Consequently, it is easy to get behind on the news. Here is a look at the state of the art in the open source desktop publishing (DTP) arena for fall 2011.
Read more »Award-winning Airtime releases new packages for Ubuntu & Debian
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Airtime 1.9.4 has been released with new DEB packages for Ubuntu and Debian that keep installations automatically updated with the latest version. Airtime 1.9.4 also includes the new file storage system with 'watch' folders, allowing stations to magically synchronise files and to easily browse their audio archives, as well as Shoutcast support, improved front-end widgets, and extensive bug-fixes.
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Pylogsparser : a use case, analysing ssh attacks
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Learn how to analyse easily your ssh logs using the PyLogsParser python library.
Read more »Cute platformer with level sharing between players: Nikki and the Robots
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Nikki is an open source game that will have a proprietary story mode but has fully playable levels and an easy to use level editor.
In the latest release a level server was added, which allows to download and upload levels to a public server (under cc-by license)
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Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
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FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 11.04 server.
Read more »GTK+ 3.2 Released With HTML5 And Wayland Backends Support
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GTK+ 3.2 has been released with two eagerly expected features: experimental support for Wayland and HTML5 "Broadway" backends. The HTML5 "Broadway" backend allows rendering GTK applications in HTML5-capable browsers. That means that you can run Gedit, GIMP and other applications in a web browser (both local and remotely).
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PHP-FPM/Nginx Security In Shared Hosting Environments (Debian/Ubuntu)
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If you want to use nginx and PHP-FPM for shared hosting environments, you should make up your mind about security. In Apache/PHP environments, you can use suExec and/or suPHP to make PHP execute under individual user accounts instead of a system user like www-data.
Read more »Mounting Remote Directories With SSHFS On Debian Squeeze
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This tutorial explains how you can mount a directory from a remote server on the local server securely using SSHFS. SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a filesystem that serves files/directories securely over SSH, and local users can use them just as if the were local files/directories. On the local computer, the remote share is mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace).
Read more »Public beta for LibreOffice extensions repository
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The repositories themselves are based on Plone and allow users to search by keyword, category, LibreOffice version and sort on highest rating, most downloaded, newest or recently updated.
Read more »How To Set Up SSL Vhosts Under Nginx + SNI Support (Ubuntu 11.04/Debian Squeeze)
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This article explains how you can set up SSL vhosts under nginx on Ubuntu 11.04 and Debian Squeeze so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end.
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