If you are familiar with CentOS, you know that out of the box, it is not really designed as a desktop distribution. Stella changes all that, as it is primarily aimed at desktop users, while retaining the core enterprise features and capabilities of CentOS.
Read more »The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (nginx, Courier, ISPConfig 3)
This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 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: nginx web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more.
Read more »Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.1)
phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers.
Read more »Tips and Tricks to Optimize MySQL
To ensure your MySQL database information can be accessed in the shortest time possible, you need to learn a few tricks to speed up data retrieval.
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$49 Android PC’s ROM, kernel and bootloader released
It is a purpose-built Android PC system designed for keyboard and mouse input, and powered by a VIA 800MHz processor, with 512 MB of DDR3 RAM and 2GB NAND Flash. It has built-in support for 2D/3D graphics resolution up to 720p. And it is about half the size of a standard mini-ITX board.
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VirtualBox: Creating Backups & Clones Of Running Virtual Machines (No Downtime) With LVM Snapshots
If you use LVM volumes for your VirtualBox VMs, you can create backups and clones of a running VM without shutting it down. This tutorial shows just that: using LVM snapshots to create backups and clones of running VirtualBox VMs without downtime.
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Sabayon 9 KDE review
This article is a review of the KDE edition, using a 32-bit ISO installation image. When first booting the system, one of the first things I noticed was that the boot with music option, which was the default, has been removed.
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Neon KVM Can Help You Test New KDE Releases
Project Neon provides daily builds of KDE modules for Kubuntu. It is an easy way to get the latest code without having to build the entire KDE-SVN tree and maintain the checkout. The Project Neon team has developed another product—Project Neon KVM Image. Users can download an image and deploy it anywhere, using KVM virtualization technology.
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Linux Mint 13 KDE and Xfce preview
Linux Mint is a Linux desktop distribution based on Ubuntu desktop and is one of the most popular Linux distributions still in active development.
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Using RAW Devices In VirtualBox VMs
Usually, VirtualBox creates its virtual machines in disk images (.vdi, .vmdk, etc.). This tutorial explains how you can use RAW devices from the host (partitions, LVM volumes, etc.) and create a VirtualBox VM in it. I will also explain how to mount a RAW device in an existing VM.
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Another one bites the dust, and goes open source
According to an old saying, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. That, however, does not seem to apply in the proprietary software business, because as we have seen over the years, whenever a proprietary software vendor falls on tough financial times, it closes shop and releases its products under an open source license.
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Linux Mint 13 KDE Released
Linux Mint 13 KDE comes with KDE software compilation 4.8, artwork improvements, Linux kernel 3.2 and new search engines .This release is based on Ubuntu 12.04.
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Dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 on a computer with 2 hard drives
This is the second article on dual-booting Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 with Windows 7. But while the first one, how to dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7, showed how to do it on a computer with a single hard drive, this one gives a step-by-step guide on how to do it on a computer with two hard drives.
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Videos and Slides from KDE Akademy 2012 are Now Available
Now that Akademy 2012 is behind us and life is getting back to normal, we can now share videos and slides from the conference talks with those who weren't there. All available videos and slides are linked to from the Akademy Program.
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How To Benchmark Your System (CPU, File IO, MySQL) With sysbench
sysbench is a benchmark suite which allows you to quickly get an impression about system performance which is important if you plan to run a database under intensive load. This article explains how to benchmark your CPU, file IO, and MySQL performance with sysbench.
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