While it originally appeared that Fedora 16 would be the first major distribution (besides possibly counting MeeGo) to switch to Btrfs as the default Linux file-system, that's not going to happen. Fedora 16 will continue defaulting to EXT4 and it will not be until Fedora 17 now that Btrfs will be the Fedora file-system default.
Read more »Btrfs Switch Postponed To Fedora 17
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Setting Up Unison File Synchronization Between Two Servers On Debian Squeeze
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This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Debian Squeeze servers with Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, but the big difference is that it tracks/synchronizes changes in both directions, i.e., files changed on server1 will be replicated to server2 and vice versa.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.0 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Wine 1.3.26 Released
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The Wine development release 1.3.26 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Various improvements to the builtin Internet Explorer.
* Support for Get/SetDIBits in the DIB engine.
* Support for enhanced metafiles in the View tool.
* Many improvements in WinHTTP.
* A number of fixes to the COM stubless marshaller.
Play DotA clone Heroes of Newerth on Linux Natively For Free
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Heroes of Newerth (commonly known as HoN) is a free-to-play action/real-time strategy game based on DotA. The developer S2 Games announced last Friday that HoN is now free-to-play. HoN is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod, Defense of the Ancients (DotA), but with vast improvements in graphics and gameplay.
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Wineskin Pro is now compatible with PaulTheTall game wrappers
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Wineskin Pro users can now easily play hundreds of Windows games on their Mac computers with the wrappers from PaulTheTall.
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Music player Amarok 2.4.3 gets new Dynamic Playlist
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Amarok 2.4.3 brings tweaked visual design, removing the status bar at the bottom, and replacing it with more focused notifications up top, or where they make most sense. You’ll also see some nice new visual effects in the layout as well. The new Dynamic Playlist should be easier to understand.
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Why Flash, HTML5 and the ChromeOS are good things for the Linux desktop
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So, given that the vast majority of users don't actually use an OS as anything more than a launchpad for their word processors, IM clients, games and web browsers, why has Linux failed to make any real impression in the desktop OS space? The problem, in a nut shell, is that the word processors, IM clients and games they use in Windows don't run in Linux.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.0
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In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.
Read more »digiKam photo management suite 2.0 released
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This version of free and open source photo management suite features long awaited face detection and recognition, image versioning support, XMP metadata sidecar files support, big improvements in tagging and marking photos, reversed geo-tagging and many other improvements, including a total of 236 fixed bugs. Close companion Kipi-plugins is released along with digiKam 2.0.0.
Read more »Explore the Universe: The Three Best Linux Stargazing Apps
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There are three superior Linux/FOSS stargazing applications: KStars, Celestia, and Stellarium. Each one is crammed full of pretty eye candy and scientific goodness, and each one is distinctly different. You don't have to pick just one, so I recommend trying all three.
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100 Best Free and High Quality Linux Games
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There are literally thousands of games that can be played on Linux, if you're a casual gamer or hardcore Linux fan who is looking to have a bit of fun on your favourite distro, there's plenty of games to choose from.
Read more »How To Encrypt Directories/Partitions With eCryptfs On Debian Squeeze
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eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories that don't use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc. This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs to encrypt a directory on Debian Squeeze.
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Firefox 8 is 20% Faster than Firefox 5, Install Firefox 8 in Ubuntu via PPA
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According to a recent study by extremetech.com, Firefox 8 is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric and has got a drastically reduced memory footprint as well.
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Linux kernel 3.0 released
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It could not have been foreseen when Linux 2.6.39 was released in mid-May, but it has now happened: Linux 3.0 is here.
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