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.
Read more »Why Flash, HTML5 and the ChromeOS are good things for the Linux desktop
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Qemu and openvpn: Secure and convenient remote access to virtual servers
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This article describes a method for remotely accessing virtual servers. The aim is to be able to have multiple clients access one or more virtual servers across one or more physical hosts as if everyone was on the same LAN. It is also necessary to do this without compromising on security and without ANY extra configuration for the virtual servers.
We will achieve this using Qemu and Openvpn.
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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.
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Penguspy: Just the best Linux games.
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There are many great games on Linux. Check out this site to keep updated with the latest games on Linux. You can even search by categories such as open source games.
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Microsoft: Cloud need only be open surface, not open source
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Gianugo Rabellino gives a refresher course into the cloudy status of current Microsoft proprietary reasoning: just give us the dough!
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The FOSS fakery problem
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When someone searches for OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC or any other popular open source package on the internet, are they necessarily going to get the genuine article?
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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.
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SUSE & Patent FUD: Who Do We Boycott Now?
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Now that Microsoft and SUSE have announced they plan to continue sleeping together, I wonder if the folks at Techrights are rethinking their plans to pull the plug on Boycott Novell?
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Linux Professional Institute Joins ITCC Web-based Credential
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The LPI gets into very bad company and heads off to play in a proprietary corporate playground.
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Configuring iSCSI and adding iSNS Servers
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In previous tutorials we've learned SUSE has made life very easy for System Administrators having developed graphical tools to manage many system components including the iSCSI target. As with most things in life there is a price to pay for this ease: YaST only writes to the configuration files and the changes do not come into force until the service is restarted.
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Compiling Linux kernel 3.0 with Emdebian ARM toolchain
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A quick tutorial on how to cross-compile (on a Debian host) the newly released Linux kernel 3.0 with a toolchain for ARM (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc) packaged by the Emdebian project.
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TLWIR 10: 20 Years of GNU/Linux and More
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In this week’s edition of TLWIR, I will take a look at the continuing twentieth anniversary celebration of our beloved GNU/Linux operating system. I will also look at Microsoft’s olive branch extended to the Linux community. In yet another surprising turn of events, the U.S. Department of Defense has released its own GNU/Linux distribution.
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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