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Void of Darkness is a Starship action RPG inspired by Starflight 1 & 2 by Binary Systems 1989 and Distant Worlds by CodeForce. Explore, trade, fight, upgrade!

In this article, we will see several command methods about how to swap two columns or fields in a text file.

If you don’t have a need for certain international visitors to your Linux server, its easy to block them out! First, you’ll need to make sure that CSF is installed. Once that’s done, read on to block access from Russia, China, etc..

We're happy to announce that as part of the LQ Birthday Celebration, we're able to offer a completely gratis pass to OSCON 2013 in Portland, OR. Visit this LQ thread for information on eligibility.

aLinux 17.0 Beta 3 has been released. Fixed a problem with some USB hardware not being detected during the initial "Install" or in general, "Live!" mode. Now allowing more time for some SCSI devices, e.g. USB-Pendrives,. and CD/DVDs to "spin" up, before booting into "Live!" mode. aLinux (formerly Peanut Linux) is an independently developed Linux distribution with RPM package management.

Rkhunter stands for RootkitHunter. It is an open source scanner software or a shell script in UNIX like operating system that detects known rootkits and malware on linux servers.

Unfortunately, some of those tweakings have to be carried out at the command-line. But they are all easy to accomplish, so don’t panic, if you are not very comfortable at the Linux command-line. In this article, the few steps you can take to make a default installation of Linux Deepin 12.12 more secure and user-friendly are presented.

The Wine development release 1.6-rc3 is now available.

Battle against intelligent monster AI in this procedurally generated dungeon crawler. Featuring gorgeous art from Matthias Andre! This Kickstarter has already been fully funded and was using Flash with Air, they have now switched to Unity and will fully support Linux!

Piwigo is photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. Piwigo version 2.5.2 is available, for a fresh install and for upgrade.

Mint is a relative newcomer to the world of popular desktop distros, but it has recently started to take the GNOME and Unity-hating Linux world by storm. The recent release of version 15, called Olivia, should help it secure a reputation as “the” alternative desktop. If you'd like a modern set of desktop tools without a completely new desktop interface to go with, then Mint 15 has what you're after.

On Saturday, I traveled to New York City with my chief photographer, my wife, and was fitted with my very own Google Glass. This slideshow on Internet Evolution documents the experience. It was a fun day, let's put it that way and Google made it feel like a special adventure.

The first thing on your mind when setting up a new Linux server (dedicated or VPS) is how you can increase security. One of the best tools in your bag of tricks should be the CSF (ConfigServer) LFD (Login Failure Daemon) firewall.

Dot Categories: Community and EventsThis Akademy keynote talk is based on Jolla and their Sailfish OS. It will cover project history, software architecture and collaboration between Jolla and various open source projects such as Qt, Mer, and Nemo Mobile. It will address the user interface concepts used in Sailfish OS and highlight the benefits of using Qt Quick to build the user experience in Sailfish OS.

A few glaring realities start to emerge as a defined, purposeful and probably a fully coordinated, unspoken agreement between the industry heavy weights. Which is obtain complete control over personal computing through the cloud, if not through the desktop OS then a push into mobile and new cloud oriented operating systems that are not compatible with their PC counterparts.

If you're looking for a few immediately useful actions for community building, here are 50 that might help.

The latest update to the open source Firefox browser also now supports in-browser video calls without installing extra plugins

We'll be quick about this. Google Reader is shutting down on Monday. This is disappointing to more than a few RSS junkies—and we get it. We're right there with you. In our recent poll, many folks from our community told us they're seeking alternatives to Google's beloved tool. So that you don't miss a single unread item, and for those of you who have been searching for an open source RSS reader, we've put together a short list of Google Reader replacements.

We’ve all seen the discussions on sites like Lifehacker, PCWorld, and TechCrunch all claiming that there are multiple replacements and/or alternatives. I’ve cycled through the gamut of them and found two relatively unknown gems I’d like to share with you. I’ve used both of these for a couple of days and I can honestly say…depending on your focus when using a reader, they’re quite nice and can replace Google Reader completely for you…and chances are you haven’t heard of them.

These instructions describe setting up two-factor authentication with WiKID Strong Authentication, which is a commercial/open source two-factor authentication system and OpenVPN, an SSL-encrypted VPN, on an Ubuntu 13.04 Linux server using the Radius Pluggable Authentication Module. First, we will configure PAM to use Radius, then we will configure OpenVPN to use PAM and one-time passwords, then we will create a network client on the WiKID server for OpenVPN. We won't go into specifics about installing these services, rather we will focus on configuring them to all work together.