Ubuntu Server has one of the cleanest and easiest Linux distribution installers. However, in many cases, its designers choose to ignore security in favor of ease-of-use. The result? An install that is not secure by default.
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Your Distro is Insecure: Ubuntu
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Distro Review - Arch Linux 2009.02
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The Arch fans are always really passionate and enthusiastic in describing it to me; so I figured it was high time I found out for myself. After many broken promises and much procrastination, I finally made it onto Arch Linux and that’s where I’ve been for the past couple of weeks now.
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Overview: 5 BitTorrent Clients for Linux
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Today I will continue the series of GUI applications reviews with 5 clients for the BitTorrent protocol. I will leave command-line clients like rtorrent or ctorrent for some other time, focusing on KTorrent, Deluge, Transmission, Vuze and QBitTorrent.
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Enter gNewSense - the free Ubuntu
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The project gNewSense started with the goal of creating a GNU/Linux distribution whose first priority is users’ freedom - even if this limits user comfort and hardware support. As a starting point Ubuntu’s operating system is used.
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Vim Tip: Changing color schemes
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Tired of the same old syntax color scheme in vim? Are you constantly toggling syntax on and off? Why not find a theme more to your liking?
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 298, 13 April 2009
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Recently the latest version of perhaps the world's most friendly BSD distribution was released. PC-BSD 7.1 is based off FreeBSD and we take a first look at this interesting operating system.
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Linux basics: Finding the right applications
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Now that you’ve decided to try Linux, you might be wondering what applications are available to perform all the tasks that you used to do on a Windows or Mac system. We’ve compiled quite a few of them at TechRepublic, so I rounded up some of the best lists to share with beginners...
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Tonido: Cloudless Computing On Your Desktop
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While there are plenty of sites that allows you to upload your files and share with others, there might be a handful of you that are paranoid about the privacy of your data or who are concerned that your data will get lost when the third party sites go out of business. Tonido could be the solution to tackle this.
Read more »xclip - Copy contents from command line to X clipboard in openSUSE
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xclip is a command line interface to the X11 selections (X11 clipboard). It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup. xclip reads from Standard Input or from one or more files and copy it to the X11 clipboard making it available to the X applications.
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See the URLs behind TinyURL Links
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If you are anything like me, you despise the plague that TinyURL has been on the internet. I like to know where I’m clicking and TinyURL prevents that.
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A Short Introduction To Cron Jobs
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This article is a short introduction to cron jobs, their syntax, and how to set them up. A cron job is a scheduled task that is executed by the system at a specified time/date.
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How to control NoScript via Vimperator in Firefox
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Install Firefox 3.6 alpha1pre Minefield in Ubuntu (from repository)
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You may ask why would you want to install Firefox 3.6 alpha1pre Minefield in Ubuntu. Well, for testing purposes of course. While it worked ok for me in the 10 minutes browsing i used it, being in it's early alpha stages it should only be used for testing addons and to see the way web pages are rendered.
Below I will explain how to install Firefox 3.6 alpha from the repositories, in Ubuntu:
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How to use apt-p2p For Faster Upgrades From Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) to Jaunty (9.04)
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If you want to upgrade From Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) to Jaunty (9.04) use this tutorial for faster upgrades. We are going to use apt-p2p for this tutorial.apt-p2p is a p2p proxy for apt dowloads, it will act as a proxy between apt requests and a repository server, downloading any request files from peers (if possible), else will fallback to direct HTTP download.
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Six Best Portable Operating Systems
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Why restrict yourself to merely carrying around your data on a thumb drive? Take your entire operating system on your flash drive.
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