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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 5.6 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

Acoustic fingerprinting has been given a tremendous boost by the mobile smartphone business. You have probably seen the basic scenario in television commercials, if not in person: a user holds up a phone to capture a few seconds of audio playing nearby, and the application computes a "fingerprint" of the track, which is then used to query a remote database for the mystery artist and track name. The space has been dominated by proprietary software, but a new — and open source — project was unveiled last week, named Echoprint.

You will find almost any app in the Android Market to suit your requirement. In this post I have compiled a list of apps that will particularly interest Linux users! Some apps are intended for mere fun while you will find others helpful for referencing.

One of the cool features of Screenlets is the ability to display widgets from a wide range of tools, including Google Gadgets. With its simple conversion feature, Screenlets allows you to easily place Google Gadgets on your Gnome 3 desktop. The following instructions show you how this can be done.

Yet again Marek Olšák has made another great improvement to Mesa. Recently this independent developer has been working quite a lot in implementing OpenGL 3.0 support for the open-source Mesa stack. Ending out this weekend, he now has working OGL3 floating-point depth buffers per the GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float extension...

After only one day using Cairo Dock I was totally amazed by the jaw dropping effects. I have heard of this great application before, and now I’m confident that this is most likely the last dock or panel I will ever use.

I was in need to mount some image from Nero, and so i discovered an useful small program: CDEmu.

CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert Penz.

And while i was searching for some documentation i found this useful from Gentoo Forum, a bit old, but still good:

Now that CDemu 1.0.0 is in Portage i decided to update my Nautilus mount script. What does it do? You Just right-click on an image, choose Scripts, disk-mount. It will load your image into an available device, your desktop’s automounter does the rest. Easy. CDemu supports all kinds of images, as opposed to mount -o loop, which can only handle iso. Also, you don’t need root rights to mount.

Is it too late for MeeGo? or the upcoming release of the Nokia N9 will give it the needed impulse?.

The world needs an Open Source mobile platform, and not only closed ones.

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ, a document meant to educate Free Software developers, and especially distribution editors, about software patent risks.

The FAQ has been prepared by lawyers at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) at the request of and with input from the Debian Project. While the document does not constitute legal advice, it provides insights on dealing with software patents, which might be applicable to other community-driven Free Software distributions.

Since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, 242 days have passed. Additionally, 129 days have passed since the release of Scientific Linux 6.0, which is one of the popular community rebuilds of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 source packages. Only today, however, is CentOS 6.0 ISOs beginning to surface...

"Bumblebee" is an open source implementation by Martin Juhl to support nVidia Optimus GPU switching technology on the Linux desktop. Desktop applications use a Intel integrated GPU by default and users can launch applications with nVidia GPU using the commands “optirun32” or “optirun64”.

One of the items I've been working on recently for Phoronix Test Suite 3.4-Lillesand is new ways to visualize performance result data generated by the many test profiles and suites available via OpenBenchmarking.org. Here's one of the new ways that was committed over the weekend to the Lillesand Git code-base...

I wanted a sit-stand workstation because I spend ridiculous amounts of time on my computer and am the restless sort, so being able to change positions and maintain proper alignment while I fidget around is a real boon to ergonomics. I’ve made makeshift sitting and standing desks for years, from kitchen counters to book piles to a strategically placed empty dresser, but no matter how well I set them up, a static desk just didn’t seem right.

The past few years of experimentation did teach me about how one should be aligned in both sitting and standing positions, though.

An interview with Lateef Alabi-Oki, a free software developer (perhaps best known for the Scribes text editor), about his desktop Linux setup.

Welcome to the 155th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

This article shows how you can change the appearance of your Ubuntu 11.04 desktop (with the Ubuntu Classic interface, i.e., GNOME instead of Unity) so that it resembles a Mac. This can be achieved with the help of Elementary, Docky, and Gloobus-Preview. Elementary is a project that provides a popular icon set and GTK theme; Docky is an interactive dock (like the one you know from a Mac) that provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on your computer, and more; and Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file or directory.

Well, it has been a (relatively) long wait, but it looks like it's finally here, an application like Couch Potato and Sick Beard, but for music! Headphones is a very young project (first commit was posted on May 20, 2011), but is already showing significant promise!

I never realized how "soft" Ubuntu had made me until I tried switching to Fedora. You know, I’ve been with Ubuntu for a long time, ever since Breezy, back when you still had to configure your own drivers, back when it was more “plug and pray” than plug and play. Coming from Mandriva, I learned a lot about Linux back then when I switched to Ubuntu. I thought that once I started getting adept that was the last of my worries… Boy, was I wrong.

This is the third and final part in the interview with Keith Poole about porting Desura!

Please find below the bare minimum checklists for Linux Hardening Guide. ZEROCONF:

On by default. Used by avahi for local service discovery. Disable this service. Edit /etc/sysconfig/network. Add NOZEROCONF=yes . Then remove the avahi package and its dependencies

/etc/sysctl.conf settings :

Don’t reply to broadcasts. Prevents joining a smurf attack. net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1 Enable protection for bad icmp error messages. net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1