With Google’s operating system, what you see is what you get: a web browser, few applications (built using the Chrome browser), and some web apps. The whole operating system is one of the lightest, most low-resourced operating system out there. Enter Chromixium OS: it aims to be as light and as easy to use as … Read more
If you’re a Linux system admin, there’s no doubt that you must be spending most of your work time on the command line – installing and removing packages; monitoring system stats; copying, moving, deleting stuff; debugging problems; and more. There are times when you fire a command, and it takes a while before the operation … Read more
AWStats is an open-source Web analytics reporting tool that generates advanced web, streaming, FTP or mail server statistics graphically. This log analyser works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all the possible information your log contains in a few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able … Read more
Do you live and breathe Twitter? Do you like to tweet every turn letting the world know in 140 characters what your dinner was? Do you use the mobile app and wish there was one for your Linux desktop? Then Corebird is just for you. It’s a desktop client for Twitter that will integrate seamlessly … Read more
In the world of Desktop Linux, new distributions pop up faster than mushrooms after the rain, yet most fail to achieve anything more than being a re-branded version of their base distro. VeltOS tries to be different. Although still under heavy development, its first public developer preview came out a little more than a moth … Read more
SSL is also known as Secure Socket Layer protocol. It was created by Netscape to secure transactions between web servers and browsers. SSL protocol uses a Certificate Authority (CA) to identify one end or both ends of the transactions. All communications sent over regular HTTP connections are in plain text, and any hacker can access … Read more
Apache is one of the most widely used and popular web servers in the world, so it is important to protect your website and users from Brute-force attacks. Fail2ban is an open-source intrusion prevention software written in Python. Fail2Ban continuously analyzes various services’ log files (like Apache, ssh, postfix …), and if it detects malicious … Read more
While streaming services are increasingly popular, digital audio files often still offer a superior quality. With certain genres of music, the old-fashioned way of thinking in “albums”‘ still comes natural, and while compact disks might be the past, APE/CUE CD images still are a great way to store whole albums in one place. Nevertheless, one … Read more
Simon for Linux is what Siri is for iOS. Well, it’s probably not, but besides both having names starting with an “S”, they both listen to what you have to say. The difference is that Simon is a lot more controllable. It can be fully trained to recognize voice commands, which can be a useful … Read more
Apache is one of the most widely used and popular web servers in the world, so it is important to keep your websites private from unauthorized users. Apache authentication can be configured to require website visitors to log in with a user ID and password. There are many ways you can password protect directories under … Read more