Fedora 16 Verne with the KDE Plasma desktop is a surprisingly high-quality product, much more than expected, and this is without lowering the comparison bar to Gnome 3 level. Taking all former Fedora tests into account, Verne is crash-free in all aspects. This is a pleasant change. Then, it looks good, runs fast and can be tamed easily.
Read more »Fedora 16 Verne with KDE - Rather nice, actually
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Get the Beauty of KDE on Your Tablet
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On Wednesday the KDE project announced the arrival of the next iteration of the software, Plasma Active Two, with significantly improved performance, a raft of new features, and compatibility with many more mobile devices. If you use a tablet and want to see the beauty of KDE on your device, this could be a good time to give it a look.
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OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own
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Everyone likes personal cloud services. But, many of aren’t crazy about the fact that our files, music, and whatever are sitting on someone else’s servers without our control. That’s where ownCloud comes in. OwnCloud is an open-source cloud program. You use it to set up your own cloud server for file-sharing, music-streaming, and calendar, contact, and bookmark sharing project.
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Running Joomla 1.7 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Joomla 1.7 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.
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KDE Plasma Active Two Boosts Performance, New Features
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Mobile devices that adapt to who you are, reflecting what you are doing when you are doing it. This concept is at the heart of the Plasma Active user experience. Plasma Active One was released in October 2011, providing early adopters the first opportunity to experience Activities on a tablet.
Read more »How UEFI Will Change Your Computer Management
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Your ultra-modern computers are running a component that's 30 years old -- the BIOS. Fortunately, that is about to change.
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X-platform RTS game MegaGlest 3.6 out now
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Realtime strategy game MegaGlest (GPL + CC-BY-SA) hits v3.6, now featuring cross-platform multi-player on Linux, FreeBSD + PC-BSD, OS X, Windows, even better AI, headless gameservers.
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Mounting Remote Directories With SSHFS On Ubuntu 11.10
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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 »6 Great Free, Open-Source Games to Fetch After Installing Ubuntu
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Overview of 6 open-source games: Wesnoth, AssaultCube, Hedgewars, Xonotic, Neverball, Warzone 2100.
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Floss Manuals and Sourcefabric partner on open source publishing platform
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The open source not-for-profit organisations FLOSS Manuals Foundation and Sourcefabric are pleased to announce their newly forged partnership to maintain and develop the code base behind FLOSS Manuals' successful free software documentation platform. FLOSS Manuals' open source platform is designed to help people produce books on free software, by themselves or working collaboratively with others.
Read more »The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Nginx [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache.
Read more »Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 11.10 Server
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Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tools 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 »Ubuntu Linux losing popularity fast. New Unity interface to blame?
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Linux Mint finally accelerates into a clear lead while Ubuntu slips to a distant fourth in the latest rankings.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]
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This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, Mailman, etc.
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