About a year ago, we took a look at the growing trend toward open-source security and highlighted 10 of the best apps available. Since then, the area has continued to mature, and now we’re back highlighting 75 of the most frequently downloaded open-source security applications.
Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware
1. ClamWin Free Antivirus
This Windows-only app uses [...]
One of the quickest and easiest ways to save quite a bit of money on your network is to utilize a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (or any other GNU/Linux Server) as a Domain Controller for Windows Clients.
Microsoft not only charges a premium for their Server Software, they also charge you a “License” for every client [...]
Want to install a DVD release of Linux but dont have a DVD drive or recorder? Your CD/DVD drive has died but you still want to install a new or updated version of Linux? You can, and you can do it all from your hard drive without burning a single CD or DVD.
To start we [...]
Today, I was “playing” with the Linux configuration (as usually) and using tasksel on my Debian I remove the Desktop section, and installed it again, when I tried to use startx I just could not, there was no startx command.
After reading a while I found that I needed to install xinit package to have startx [...]
Here is the easiest way to get dvd playback in Ubuntu Hardy Heron!
Read more at Ubuntu Unleashed
Project management is becoming an increasingly important part
of the Sys Admin’s life. While Microsoft Project seems to be the
standard project management tool used in most environments that I have
worked in, it can sometimes be nice to have such tools web based so
that multiple users can share information. This is where tools such as Collabtive
come in. [...]
This document describes step by step how to set up a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
(Hardy Heron) desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable
system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment.
Read more at HowtoForge
The much-awaited 8.04 version of the Ubuntu Desktop named ‘Hardy Heron’ was released yesterday. I downloaded the 699 MB ISO and managed to install it today. There have been really worthy improvements. We can only hope that this latest version brings a lot of users into the Linux World.
Ubuntu comes with functional and free software [...]
Many people requested an update of my set up guide to the version of Compiz Fusion found in Ubuntu’s latest release “Hardy Heron”.
From the beginning I was reluctant to do that, because the official current stable release is still Compiz 0.6.2 / Compiz Fusion 0.6.0.
So I decided to start from scratch… well not really, most [...]
I’ve been using GMail ever since they decided to allow users to download their mail using POP. I was happy reading my email as usual in mutt. The only problem was that I had to log onto the website once in a while to clear out my spam folder and fish out the false positives.
However, [...]
Ubuntu is becoming more and more complete and easy to configure. However, like any operating system there’s work to be done after the installation. Here’s a list of 10 tips that you can use after installing or upgrading Ubuntu.
1. Install software faster
As a commenter on Slashdot said:
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as [...]
This guide shows how you can upgrade your desktop from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron).
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Install The Latest Updates
Before we can upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), we must make sure that all available updates for 7.10 (Gutsy [...]
If you’ve started using the beta of Firefox 3, you’ve probably already seen the new Smart Bookmarks folder that is created by default. This folder can be useful for looking up sites you just visited or bookmarked… but how do you get it back if you accidentally deleted it?
Luckily there’s a simple about:config tweak that [...]
Here I will share some methods on tweaking and optimizing your ubuntu install that I have learned over the years tweaking linux. This is small and sweet, down to the point and can dramatically speed up your system.
First lets tweak our directory structure so our Computer can find/seek files faster:
What we’ll need is a Ubuntu [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 was released a few days back and like the previous releases of Ubuntu,Ubuntu 8.04 does not include a number of essential codecs, applications etc because of number of licensing restrictions and also the limitation of accommodating more and more applications on a single CD. Though undoubtedly Ubuntu 8.04 is one of the most [...]