After four months full of work, the KDE Telepathy team is back with another release. Version 0.4 of the Instant Messaging suite for KDE Workspaces now supports making audio and video calls right from the desktop. It also adds the ability to browse chat logs. We focused strongly on stability and performance, so most of the improvements are "under the hood".
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Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server
Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g.
Read more »Taking to the skies with FlightGear
An interview with Curtis Olson, one of FlightGear's original founders and current project coordinators. FlightGear is a cross-platform GNU GPL'd flight simulator in development since 1997.
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KDE Software Compilation 4.8.4 Released
KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place.
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Airtime 2.1.0 brings live capabilities to independent radio
Non-profit Sourcefabric has released Airtime, its software for managing FM and online radio stations, in version 2.1.0. Airtime is Free Software under GNU GPL v3, runs on Ubuntu or Debian, and works with any modern web browser.
Read more »Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 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 »Best Android apps for improving memory
Keeping your brain active is crucial at any age. Without the right exercise, your brain will become just like any other muscle of the body. Take a look at 10 excellent applications that can make your brain run faster than light.
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Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way! - ownCloud 4.0 On CentOS 6.2/nginx/PostgreSQL
This document describes how to install and set up ownCloud on CentOS 6.2 on an nginx web server and php-fpm with postgreSQL database as backend. For other distributions there might be minor changes as to the software prerequisites installation procedures. This guide will not only help install the product, but also understand why certain points are done the way they are done.
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Mageia Linux 2 Review – Pure Magic
Mageia has been pretty popular ever since its original release last year. While all Linux distributions give you more choice than any other operating system, Mageia was one of the few distros that has a lot of these choices upfront. This is partly due to it being an offshoot of Mandriva, however the team at Mageia have taken it noticeably further
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Review of Mageia Linux 2 with KDE Plasma desktop
Mageia 2 comes with latest stable KDE 4.8.2 and the KDE experience has simply been great. It is quite responsive and highly stable. KDE developers are doing a great job of putting out incremental releases that elevates the user experience.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 12.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
Read more »Distro Review: Linux Mint 13 “Maya” Cinnamon Edition
On May 23, 2012, Linux Mint 13 "Maya" was released. There are two desktop flavors available, the MATE Edition and the Cinnamon Edition. MATE is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop since the GNOME project has abandoned GNOME 2 in order to work on GNOME 3 development. Cinnamon is a project started by Linux Mint in order to include a classic GNOME 2 style interface in a GNOME 3 environment.
Read more »Installing Nginx With PHP5 (& PHP-FPM) & MySQL Support (LEMP) On Ubuntu 12.04
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).
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Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage
Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the partition, containing everything there was on it.
Read more »The Best Programming Text Editor for Linux: Kate
Linux users have more text editors, IDEs, and command-line tools than a programmer can shake a stick at. If you're looking for a good programming text editor, we recommend Kate. It's super easy to get started with, but is quite powerful and has lots of great plugins to beef it up.
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