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OpenDNS is a popular DNS provider used widely both in the server as in home desktop, one of the feature they provide to their customer is DNSCrypt, a security enhancement that should add protection against all DNS based attacks, such as cache poisoning.

In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It doesn’t require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between OpenDNS customers and their DNS servers. The software is released as open source on GitHub.

With the recent development of cloud computing, many big companies have already launched their cloud sync services. The most conspicuous examples are Dropbox, Sugarsync and Google Drive. And Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution currently, also offers its own cloud sync tool. this is Ubuntu One. With 5GB of free storage, Ubuntu is better than Dropbox and equal to Sugarsync and Google Drive. If you want more storage, then you will have to pay for the additional storage space. The good thing about Ubuntu is that their paid storage is split into small 20GB pieces and the cost is more affordable than other service. Also the storage space of Ubuntu One is unlimited so you can just keep adding more and more 20GB bundles to your account in order to have as much storage as you need.

This is for all the people who complain about me doing reviews of only the live session. Anyway, as for Chakra itself, installing and using it exposed me to many more issues, so my assessment is a bit more tempered than it has been before.

Never mind what we said three weeks ago Less than a month after it was acquired by Facebook, face-recognition startup Face.com is shutting down its developer APIs and killing off its iOS app, in a dramatic about-face from earlier statements by its founder.…

Suricata can load the standard Snort VRT, Emerging Threats or the Emerging Threats Pro rulesets, and can be managed using BASE and Squil.

AbiWord is one of the most important parts of the GNOME Office package, as word processors are something that users of every age need to work with in daily basis. On this article I will try to examine what is the current usability state of AbiWord, and whether it can replace LibreOffice writer for doing both simple and more advanced tasks.

Disable popup window when running scripts in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

ARM announced a few days ago, on July 6th, that they posted a set of Linux kernel patches, which implements support for the AArch64 architecture, also known as the ARM 64-bit architecture.

This guide describes how to easily add, disable, remove, or purge a Launchpad PPA in Ubuntu.

Elena Petrevska is a fresh member of GWOP* and GnomeWeb Team from Macedonia. Recently Gnome decided to give a new look to all pages and Elena is a part of the team responsible for these changes. GnomeWeb is the mirror, the first sight of the upcoming Gnome OS and it was time to receive some attention.

That LibreOffice continues to respond to requirements of end-users became truly evident when news of it being developed for Android OS arrived a few months ago. And now with screen shot of the progress made so far being released by its developers, LibreOffice’s progress is good to note.

The heads of Mandriva SA have decided to base upcoming server versions of Mandriva on Mageia, the community run Mandriva fork

Tails 0.12.1 is out. The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live CD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace

We must make todays users aware of what they are using and of the fact that it is Linux. Otherwise we are causing another generation of innocent non-aware users who have no technical idea of their OS. You would already be surprised at how many people have never heard of anything called “Linux”, yet they are well aware of what “Android” is!

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless CentOS 6.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the month of June 2012. You can check the lists for other months at the end of the post. This month a lot of R related books were published, including a “for Dummies” book (no joke). You will find also books for the Arduino enthusiast and books about data visualization and computer vision.

The following tutorial will teach Linux users how to install the Mass Effect 3 game on their open source operating system.

Several Phoronix readers have written in that Eugeni Dodonov, a former Mandriva developer who since last year has been working for the Intel Open-Source Technology Center on their Linux graphics driver, lost his life this weekend...

With the help of uprobes, performance monitoring tools can now monitor userspace software. The ongoing overhaul of the ARM code is showing tangible success

The KDE development community has issued a statement concerning future use of the Qt tool-kit within the KDE desktop environment...