VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Read more »Howto Convert Vmware Image to Virtualbox Image or Import Vmware Image into Virtualbox
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browsing in GNOME
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There are 2 ways to provide access to the web for GNOME. One is to integrate into an existing framework. The other is to write our own.
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Rule #3: Divide and conquer
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A constant pattern in the corporate environment is the gathering of resources, but with the free exchange of information inherent in community-based projects, the pattern of choice is the dispersal of resources.
Read more »OpenSuse's Kiwi-LTSP: Easy Thin Client Server - Snake Oil or Fountain of Youth?
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IT solutions companies have been generating lots of buzz regarding thin clients basically since the early 1990s, but have yet to really penetrate into many suitable environments.
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Create Site-Specific Browsers with Prism
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The web isn't just about static web sites anymore. Web applications, like Google Docs, Gmail and many others, are extremely popular. But confining an important application inside a browser window means that web applications feel like second-class citizens and can get lost amongst the browsing that you are doing. Site-specific browsers (SSBs) are designed to solve this problem.
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RadeonHD Driver Takes A Blow In Novell Layoffs
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Due to the tough economic conditions around the world, Novell last month began slashing some of their workforce. As a major blow to the development of the open-source ATI graphics stack, one of the key RadeonHD driver developers has been lost.
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Building belonging is the secret to open source success
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Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon explained the importance of community building during a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo.
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IPTraf - Console based IP Traffic Monitor in openSUSE
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IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. IPTraf is an IP traffic monitor that shows information on the IP traffic passing over your network.
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Howto block DDOS attacks on Ubuntu
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I will show you howto install PSAD on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server to block DDOS attacks (distributed denial of service) and port scan.
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Fainting and the Linux audio stack, or Know Your Enemy
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I've been working off and on to draft a Linux audio overview in the vein of Bryce's excellent X Window System architecture docs. Lennart, the brains behind Avahi and PulseAudio, already has a quite-good writeup on the different APIs with well thought-out reasons for choosing whichever one(s) for a task.
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Bugwrangling and How to make people happy
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Every now and then it might happen that you are one of the lucky souls to discover a bug in a gentoo package. Now you might want to get that bug fixed. Where do you start?
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How services change the application landscape
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I came across a blog entry of Philip Van Hoof. In it he asserts that soon the era of email clients will be over, which I think some people misinterpreted as application for reading and managing email messages becoming obsolete.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Lenny (AMD64)
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In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Lenny 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.
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bash-completion: the greatest things since bash completion
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Pressing the tab key in bash to auto-complete a file name is one of the most time saving tricks especially when dealing with very long file names. Unfortunately, file name completion is not always the right behavior. This is where the bash-completion package steps in.
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Howto install nginx webserver in Debian
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Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide .Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
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