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FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 11.10 server.

ffDiaporama is a multi-platform application for creating videos from photos or movie clips. It supports various transition effects, titles/annotations, music and more.

GNU LilyPond is a free/open-source music typesetting program. This community-driven project brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

The tablet is called the exciTe 10 LE, and will be available from March 6, just one day from today. The exciTe 10 LE is one sleek piece and the “LE” probably stands for “Lite Edition” because this tablet is just 0.3? thin and weighs a paltry 1.2 lbs.

The new Unity Launcher is a new and very significant part of the desktop environment. After logging into your system the Launcher will automatically appear along the left edge of your screen. The Launcher can be used to store and run all of your favorite applications.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Would you pay a small fee to turn your average HDTV into a smart TV? Always Innovating hopes so. The San Francisco company showed off its HDMI Dongle, which adds Android 4.0 support to non-connected televisions, at this week’s Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Benoit Jacob of Mozilla is looking at the possibility of using Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver as a means of WebGL software rendering within Firefox...

This guide describes how to display Google Calendar events in Ubuntu's Unity without using Evolution.

Much awaited game Mari0 has been released today for Linux. Mari0 is a mashup of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal style gameplay. The game is completely free and open source.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: In Calligra: Kexi's welcome status bar fetches GUI updates from the server if available; WPS file support; updates and fixes in the text undo/redo framework Improved synchronization view in Lokalize Improvements in C++ and C++11 in KDevelop More configurable tab and window title in Konsole read more

Since the announce Precise Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest on january 23, 2012, and the opening Precise pangolin wallpaper submissions group on flickr.

The Linux 3.3 kernel release might be imminent. In releasing the Linux 3.3-rc6 kernel, which Linus says is just made up of small fixes and clean-ups, he says this could be the last release candidate...

Guayadeque is a Lightweight and fully featured Music Player for Ubuntu and other linux distribution such (Arch linux, gentoo,Mageia and Fedora)

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application created in 2004 and subsequently acquired by the web portal organisation, Yahoo! Inc. Flickr has a large user base (more than 60 million members) that rely on this storage site to host and share their 6 billion images with family and friends. The application is particularly popular among the blogging community, but faces stiff competition from the likes of Picasa, Facebook, and others.

Though I tend to stay away from publicly reviewing distributions that use the default GNOME 3 desktop, I evaluate them privately and if I come across one that has been modified to look like a true desktop operating system, then I will take the time to do what it takes to publish a review on it. Linux Deepin falls into that category. So expect a review of Linux Deepin soon.

While I am still working on the review, here are a few screen shots for your viewing pleasure.

This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

The United States Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, Amazon, PayPal, MasterCard, Visa. If you’ve heard of the attacks on any of these organizations, then you’ve heard about the results of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC). LOIC is the weapon of choice of Anonymous and other “hacktivist” groups, enabling them to command a voluntary botnet.

What is the LOIC? How does it work? What good does it do? In this article, The Powerbase is going to examine the LOIC, and give our readers the information they need to interpret these current events.

Just as expected, the first release candidate of GCC 4.7 is now available for testing. This major update to the GNU Compiler Collection introduces several new language features, hardware support improvements, and other support enhancements to the GPLv3-licensed compiler...

Welcome to the 189th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!