Linux distributions can be as feature-packed or as stripped back as needed, powering anything from inner-city signage to city council desktops.

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The IT industry has a continual balance between security and usability. Within this balance, performance usually affects usability. In the realm of protecting "Data at Rest" (i.e. encryption) one may find three factors affecting performance, and therefore usabilty: The harddrive, CPU and RAM. Of these, the harddrive will always prove to be a bottleneck (yes, even with an Solid State Drive, SSD).

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LXC, Linux Containers, is a fast, lightweight, and operating system-level virtualization technology that allows us to host multiple isolated Linux systems (Containers) in a single host. Unlike other virtualization methods such as VirtualBox, KVM, and Vmware, the guest systems uses the same kernel of the host system. All guests will efficiently shares the resources such as CPU, RAM, Hard disk, and network etc of your original host computer. The main goal of LXC is to create a Linux environment as close as a standard Linux installation, but without the need for a separate kernel.

The keen photographers, illustrators and graphics ninjas amongst you have the chance to help shape the look and feel of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 — but only for the next few weeks.

Well there I was, rebuilding a router and having a good time when I accidentally damaged the partition table on my main Linux installation, which is a GUID partition table, or GPT. Figure 1 (above) shows the cheery message that greeted me at boot.

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL

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This document describes how to install and configure ownCloud 7 on Ubuntu 14.04. I will also connect to the ownCloud Server‘s data with another Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop and a Windows 7 machine. ownCloud provides access to your data through a web interface or WebDAV while providing a platform to easily view, sync and share across devices—all under your control. ownCloud’s open architecture is extensible via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins and works with any storage.

Among the 50 revered and respected gaming titles now available DRM-free on Linux thanks to the company’s efforts are 23 that are totally new to the platform. These include FlatOut & Flatout 2, Darklands and Sid Meier’s Colonization.

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Setting up PXE Server can be very handy while installing large number of systems, and it just enables a System Administrator to install the client systems from a centralized PXE server without the need of CD/DVD or any USB thumb drives.

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The last time Matthew was evaluating NoSQL databases he ended up sticking with a relational database. He is evaluating them again today and this time he is pretty sure he wll have to actually choose one. The choice is really hard for a number of reasons.

Copy is a cloud-based file storage, sync and sharing platform, similar to Dropbox or Google Drive, which has clients available for Linux (including Raspberry Pi), Windows, Mac OS X as well as iOS, Android and Windows Mobile.

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FreeBSD an operating system with focus on performance, networking, and storage combines with ease of system administration and comprehensive documentation to realize the full potential of any computer.

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On July 17, 1993 Slackware was born. After 21 years Slackware continues to rock.

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what sort of workspace environment the creator of Linux works from, it’s your lucky day.

KDE released Plasma 5 yesterday, which is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5 and it introduces an updated artwork concept with cleaner visuals and improved readability, called Breeze, along with improved high DPI support and a converged shell, as well as a fully hardware accelerated graphics stack.

Obmenu is a menu editor designed for openbox. It’s easy to use, allowing to get the most out of the powerful Openbox menu system, while hiding the xml layout from the user.

Variety, a cool wallpaper changer that works with most desktop environments (KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Unity, GNOME Shell, Cinnamon or Pantheon), reached version 0.4.19 today, bringing support for Panoramio as image source, support for the Enlightenment desktop environment, fixes for Flickr and Wallpapers.net and more.

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In this post, Unixmen is going to use the terminal to make a browser default.

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Network File System (NFS) is a popular distributed filesystem protocol that enables users to mount remote directories on their server. The system lets you leverage storage space in a different location and write onto the same space from multiple servers in an effortless manner. It, thus, works fairly well for directories that users need to access frequently. This tutorial explains the process of mounting NFS share on an Ubuntu 14.04 server in an simple and easy-to-follow steps.

phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.

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Ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a ncurses-based du viewer. It provides a fast and easy-to-use interface through the well-known du command. It displays percentages of disk usage and also allow you to browse through directories via ncurses library.

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Transmageddon is a video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer. It supports almost any format as its input and can generate a very large host of output files. The goal of the application was to help people to create the files they need to be able to play on their mobile devices and for people not hugely experienced with multimedia to generate a multimedia file without having to resort to command line tools with ungainly syntaxes.

It may have taken the best part of a decade, but the City of Munich says its decision to switch to open-source software has saved an estimated ten million Euros.

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In the previous tutorial, We showed you how to Install Oracle VirtualBox And Manage It Using phpVirtualBox On A CentOS 6.5 Headless Server. Today, we will do the same on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS headless server

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A couple of months ago, Unixmen have described an awesome tool called TimeShift that can be used to restore your Linux desktop to the previous working state in Unixmen. In the same series, today Unixmen introduces a new tool named systemback.

Systemback is an open source, system backup and restore application. Using Systemback, we can easily create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems, we can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system installation and Live system creation.

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phpList is an open source, world’s popular, and more comprehensive newsletter campaign manager. Using phpList, you can send any no of mails to your subscribers. You can easily integrate the phpList with your website, so that you can send bulk mails to all of your subscribers at once.

Simple Screen Recorder (SSR), a Qt desktop recorder for Linux, was updated to version 0.3.0 today, bringing profile support, a new, more flexible OpenGL recording system, native support for mono microphones and other interesting changes.

Whisker Menu is an application menu / launcher for Xfce that features a search function so you can easily find the application you want to launch. The menu supports browsing apps by category, you can add applications to favorites and more.

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CrashPlan is an open source backup software developed by Code42, an American software company. Code42 was founded as an IT consultancy company, but finally ended up focusing on online storage solutions, and released the very first version of CrashPlan on 2007. CrashPlan is an ideal backup solution for small medium to large enterprise organizations. It can backup data between remote systems, local systems, and external devices and CrashPlan Cloud.

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The Linux Mint team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” Xfce.

Guake Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Guake terminal users, useful for those who need to connect to multiple SSH hosts frequently: the indicator lets you easily manage your favorite SSH hosts and establish new SSH connections via Guake.

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It is always fast, interesting and fun doing things via the Terminal. The terminal is really power as we say everyday to those who don’t want to hear it mentioned or see you type in it.

Today Unixmen is going to look at how to open our system’s default manager from the terminal.

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The open-source multimedia converter for linux Curlew has reached version 0.1.22.3 bringing some missing dialog icons, a “Português – Brazil” translation and an updated russian translation.

Curlew is an open-source multimedia converter for linux with a support for more than 100 different file formats. It can also be used to add subtitles to your video file and show file informations such as duration, remaining time, estimated size, and progress value.

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This guide explains how to import virtual machine images in the vendor neutral OVF and OVA format into VMware and Virtualbox. I will use a ova image from howtoforge.com as example here. The vmware images from howtoforge can be used as basis for test and production servers.

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Betty is an open source tool that translates English-like phrases into Linux commands. The main goal of this project is to use the Linux powered systems through natural language input. Let us see some examples how it works.

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Want to use CSS3 animation but haven‘t mastered the code yet? Or perhaps you spend a lot of time coding animations and would like to speed things up.

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Laptop Mode Tools is a package that can be used to extend your laptop battery life in many ways. It enhances the battery life by enabling the Laptop mode feature of Linux Kernel, which lets down the hard drive spin of your Laptop.

Skype 4.3 for Linux has been released today with an updated UI, cloud-based Group Chat experience, support for PulseAudio 3 and 4 and various other changes and bug fixes.

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Unixmen have already shown about PXE server installation and configuration on CentOS 6.5 a couple of days before. Today, let Unixmen setup and configure PXE server on Ubuntu 14.04 server.

Humanity Colors, an icon theme pack designed by the Ravefinity Project which provides Humanity (the default Ubuntu icon theme) in various colors, was updated with 3 new colors along with other changes and bug fixes.

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Useful jQuery libraries is a very familiar phrase between designers and developers. It is the one of the most popular JavaScript libraries that you find on the Web. Every designer and developer knows the importance of it; they are familiar with its functions and features.

• jQuery is designed to resolve just about every issue that a website might have
• It can resolve all those issues that obstruct you from making an attractive and creative website
• If you want to resolve any cross-browser issues, make JavaScript libraries in your collection

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Webmin is an open source, web based system administration tool for Unix/Linux. Using Webmin, you can setup and configure all services such as DNS, DHCP, Apache, NFS, and Samba etc via any modern web browsers. So, you don’t have to remember all commands or edit any configuration files manually.

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In this tutorial HowtoForge will introduce some tips & tricks while using the phpvirtualbox. These tricks make phpvirtualbox functionality better & much more fruitful.