While both editions just work out of the box, they leave a very important feature disabled by default. That feature, is the firewall. The really bad thing about this distribution is not just that the firewall is not configured, but that there are open ports that leave your computer wide open for Black Hats to mess with.
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Still in search of that perfect desktop distribution
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There was a time when distro-hopping was fun, but for me, it has since lost its shine. Now, I just want to stick with one desktop distribution. But I do not want to stick with just any one. It has to be perfect.
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Using Git for Source Control
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GIT is the source control tool, a distributed version control system (dvcs) which is written in C. This provides a history of the files that are maintained by it. In distributed version control each user has a complete copy of the code so there is no central code repository.
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Feds Seized Website For a Year Without "Piracy" Proof
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized a website based on RIAA claims of copyright infringement. They held it for a year before giving it back due to lack of evidence.The RIAA has declined to comment. These MAFIAA powertrips must end!
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Catalyst scales Lamp and Drupal to meet enterprise demands
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In this interview with Catalyst's Director, Mike O'Connor sheds light on how enterprise scaling of Lamp and use of CMS including DRUPAL and MOODLE can dramatically benefit companies.
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A quick look into Chrome/Chromium OS
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After the first unsuccessful try with Android (jk), Google strikes again on OS market with Chrome OS. Actually this is kinda Google’s first attempt on OS market, considering that Android is not a genuine Google product. Google acquired Android from Android Inc in 2005.
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Updating Chakra Archimedes
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Unlike other Linux distributions that feature a graphical package manager, Chakra’s tend to have issues handling major updates, so a decision was made not to ship a graphical package in the April ISO image. Which meant that installing and updating applications (and the system) on a default installation of Chakra Archimedes 2012.04 could only be accomplished from the command line.
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An Interview with Leon Brin, maintainer of Mathbuntu
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Today we share with you an interview with Dr. Leon Brin, professor, mathematician and maintainer of Mathbuntu a set of scripts that enhances an Ubuntu based distribution with mathematical software. Leon tells us the story behind Mathbuntu and how you can help the project. Enjoy!
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PC-BSD 9.1 installer preview
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One of the most important aspects of a distribution (there goes that word, again) or an operating system, is the installer or installation program. PC-BSD’s installer, aside from Anaconda, the Fedora system installer, is one of the most frequently updated installers on any distribution that I have used or reviewed on this website.
Read more »Elveos, the collaborative platform for free software funding
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Describe a new feature in a free software project, crowdfund the financing and a developer will build it.
Are you familiar with finances? The GNU AGPL v3 licensed code is looking for new masters with economic and communications skills.
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
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This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3.
Read more »Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released
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Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first (stable) release of the free software office suite since its development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has been released. The announcement was made earlier today.
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Simple and efficient MongoDB Backup using bash script
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There are different ways to take Backup from MongoDB. Using mongodump is one of simple and efficient way to implement it. The bash script presented here take backup from replica set after verifying that current server is slave and then transfer it to separate backup server along with capturing vital information of all steps in log file.
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Qt Creator 2.5.0 Released
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The Qt Creator 2.5.0 final has been released! There are lots of new features and improvements in this release of the free and open source integrated development environment for C++ and Qt.
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Virtual Users & Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 12.04)
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This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota.
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