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).
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Fedora 16 Verne with KDE - Rather nice, actually
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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.
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How to Run Startup Scripts in KDM before KDE Starts
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In KDE, there are some unique instances when it would be ideal to start a script at the moment KDM starts, in between the start of X and the start of your desktop environment.
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Marble virtual globe: Lunar Map and Online Services
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KDE Marble is a virtual globe and a geographical atlas. It is free software (available under GNU LGPLv2), meaning that you can freely use, study, modify copy and share it without any restrictions. This is a look at two of its features: the first one is an interactive map (globe) of the moon and the second one is a set of some online services that come with Marble.
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Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released
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The Amarok development team has released version 2.5 of its open source music player and organiser, code-named "Earth Moving". Among the changes highlighted by the developers are re-written support for USB mass storage devices, GPodder.net podcast synchronisation and an integrated Amazon MP3 store.
Read more »Kate Text Editor in KDE 4.8
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Now that KDE 4.8 is about to be released, let’s have a look at what Kate brings in KDE 4.8.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 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, Mailman, and many more.
Read more »Demystifying Krita with Comics
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If you're like most people, getting started with an app like Krita can be intimidating. Working with a graphics tablet takes as much getting used to as learning to draw with ink and paint. How all the settings and tools work together when "used correctly" is a whole other problem.
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 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.
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