Most modern GNU/Linux distributions are secure with their default minimal installs, whether desktop or server, while some distributions are designed specifically with security in mind. However, any GNU/Linux distribution that needs services available to other users or systems will need either enhanced or configurable security.
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Introduction to Firestarter
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Finding Advanced Settings on GNOME
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If you ever find yourself looking to tweak your features to the pixel, you will find that GNOME does not offer the configuration option in its standard preference dialogs.
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Building Your own Custom Linux PC
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Hardware compatibility was a major issue with Linux some years ago, but it's quite safe to say that we have gone past that point.
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Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?
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Ubuntu is known as Linux for Human Beings...PC-BSD, on the other hand, "has been designed with the casual computer user in mind.
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Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks
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The desktop environment for many Linux users, Gnome, is fast, organized and very easy to learn. But Gnome is also very powerful and highly customizable. Today's top 10 lists the various ways you can tweak Nautilus and the Gnome desktop to turn Linux into a productivity powerhouse.
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Rock the iPod with open-source upgrade
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"I recently decided to begin ripping all of my newly purchased CDs into FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec. Music files in FLAC format sound better than those using lossy compression formats such as MP3--plus, FLAC is an open standard. The only downside is that my 80GB Apple iPod doesn't play FLAC files. Happily, we can fix that..." with free software!
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Freeciv 2.1beta6 Now Out!
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A new beta of the upcoming Freeciv 2.1 has been released. The last major beta - beta4 - was nearly 5 months ago. There was a beta5 (uploaded a few days ago) but it was not announced due to some serious bugs. The main changes since beta4 are numerous bug and stability fixes.
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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Etch)
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"This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos)..."
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How to get local email under Linux
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IF YOU'RE a Linux user and, like yours truly, not really a professional full-time Unix/Linux sysadmin, you might also be puzzled like I was about how to set up Postfix to route local system-generated email to your email client. If you're not a Linux user, or not curious, you can stop reading here, because this article is about how to solve that problem.
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Mozilla Aims At Cross-Site Scripting With FF3
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Web 2.0 has enabled a broad array of Websites to be more engaging for users. It has also enabled a new and now very common attack, namely cross site scripting, commonly referred to as XSS attacks
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Who needs Windows Home Server with Linux around?
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There's nothing wrong with being an ordinary file server for the home. After all, with many home users having multiple computers and gigabytes of music, photos and movies, it's well past time for homes to start having simple-to-use file servers. But, why pay extra for it?
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Cheese brings Photobooth functionality to Linux
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Cheese is a relatively new open source webcam application for Linux that supports image and video capture and allows users to apply visual effects.
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On Firefox 3 and microformats
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Microformats support is one of the most relevant features coming to Firefox 3. It is not one of those instant gratification features like spell checking or tabbed browsing. It’s in the league of offline web applications support, web content handling and live bookmarks
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Zonbu GNU/Linux computer
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Zonbu GNU/Linux is a new, environmentally-friendly, compact PC available from Zonbu. It includes some features that really make it stand out from other PCs. Last, but not least, it comes with GNU/Linux. In this article, I will give you some of the highlights and thoughts of my experience with Zonbu.
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Video Editing Options for Linux
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We know our video editing applications for Windows (read Adobe Premiere, AVID, Ulead Video studio etc) and Mac (Final Cut Pro!), but what about video editing on a Linux powered system? Well here's a list of video editing applications for your Linux PC:
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