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Best VPN For Linux Ubuntu & Fedora

Security issues on the internet can arise from many different sides. Though we often believe that viruses and other forms of malware are greatest threats that World Wide Web has to offer, situation is actually a lot more complicated than that. Our security is also...

October 20, 2016 admin Linux Comments Off

Forward Palo Alto Logs To Nagious Log Server

Forwarding logs to a Nagious syslog server requires three steps Create a syslog server profile Go to Device > Server Profiles > Syslog Enter Name of the syslog server, Server IP address where the logs will be forwarded to, Port Number, Facility Configure the log-forwarding profile to select...

February 3, 2016 admin Linux Comments Off

Setup Nagios Server On CentOS 7

First load CentOS 7 either on a VM or physical server. After that is done IP your CentOS Server and SSH into the server via ip. Install Nagios by using the following commands 1 . cd /tmp 2. wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-log-server/nagioslogserver-latest.tar.gz 3. tar xzf nagioslogserver-latest.tar.gz 4....

January 25, 2016 admin Linux Comments Off

CRYENGINE Support Added For Linux

CRYENGINE, the video game engine from Crytek, will run natively on Linux starting from version 3.8.1. Other improvements include the ability to run on the Oculus Rift, support for OpenGL, 8-weight GPU vertex skinning, and improved POM self-shadowing. Here are the full release notes....

June 22, 2015 admin Linux Comments Off

The GNOME Music Player Is Getting Smart New Features

The GNOME Music Player is getting smart new features GNOME developer Alan Day tells us about them in his blog post “I’ve been a bit quiet about GNOME’s applications of late. This isn’t because nothing has been happening, though – quite the opposite. We’ve been...

June 22, 2015 admin Linux Comments Off

Ubuntu Founder loses fight to cancel $20m bank fee

Mark Shuttleworth has lost his long-running fight to reverse a US$20m (£12.8m) bank charge levied after he transferred a fortune out of South Africa. In 2001, Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical, emigrated from his home nation of South Africa to the...

June 21, 2015 admin Business, Linux Comments Off

Free SSL/TLS Certificate Project Let’s Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt, a project aimed at increasing the use of encryption across websites by issuing free digital certificates, is planning to issue the first ones next month. Digital certificates are used to encrypt data traffic between a computer and a server using SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets...

June 19, 2015 admin Business, Linux Comments Off

LibreOffice Now Available On Apple’s Mac App Store

The world’s most popular Open Source Office Suite is now available on OS X via one-step install following Collabora Productivity’s launch today of two new apps in the Mac App Store. End-users can get LibreOffice on OS X with automatic updates, long-term maintenance, and optional...

June 18, 2015 admin Linux Comments Off

How To Install The Asterisk Web-Based GUI

Step-By-Step On How to Install Asterisk GUI This should work in any RPM linux based system (Red Hat, CentOS, Federa, exc) Download the latest version source files using svn. (yum install subversion) cd /usr/src svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/branches/2.0 asterisk-gui cd asterisk-gui ./configure make make install I...

July 16, 2014 admin Linux Comments Off

Asterisk 11 Installation on CentOS 6

1. CentOS Updates Update your CentOS 6 Server for any possible unimplemented updates. yum update -y 2. Disabling SELinux You can use any text editor (VIM etc) to commit this change. Go to /etc/selinux/config and change SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled This can also be done...

June 18, 2014 admin Linux Comments Off