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Install Icinga Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu

Icinga is an enterprise-grade open-source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries...

Securely Delete Hard Drive Data with ‘Secure-Delete’ Tools

As we all know, deleting files/folders by pressing SHIFT+DELETE or emptying Trash doesn't mean that we permanently deleted them. The files/folders will reside somewhere...

Reduce ISO Size with ISOMaster

ISO Master is an open-source and easy to use, graphical CD image editor for Linux and BSD. Basically, you can use this program to...

Why we Compress Files and the bzip2 Utility

You may frequently download compressed files from the internet. Have you wondered why the files you download are compressed? Not everyone has the privilege to...

Time to Show Your Skills. Join the Ubuntu App Contest

Hi guys, how are we all? Are you ready for some hard work and for some good prices? Would you like to win an...

Kernel Driver Not Installed (rc=-1908) on OpenSUSE 12.3

If you have difficulties starting your virtual machines under OpenSUSE 12.3, we will show how hou can solve the issue. This is the normal way...

WINE 1.7 Available for Ubuntu

Are you an ex-Windows OS user that still wants to use your Windows OS applications in Linux? You can do that with WINE. What is...

Play SNES Games on Ubuntu with ZSNES

It is the moment to go back in time. Although today's kids play Sony Playstation 3 games and have better games with better graphics,...

Monitor Statistics of OpenSUSE Systems with Saidar

Saidar is a curses-based tool for viewing the system statistics such as CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O and file system...

Install and Configure Samba Server on OpenSUSE 13.1

Samba is a free and open-source software package that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available, unlike other...

How to Install CUDA 5.0 Toolkit in Ubuntu

This guide is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but the same principles apply in newer versions of Ubuntu. Let's begin. 1. Make sure you have...

Easily Extract Many Archives with dtrx

dtrx means “Do The Right Extraction". It is a very useful command-line tool for extracting many archive files. Using tar -zxf or tar xjf is sometimes...

How to Install Fedora 19 on UEFI Based Systems

So you have purchased a brand new system that has UEFI and you want to get Fedora 19 installed? Well, the Fedora Project does...

Is Unity 8 Super Fast or What?

Just a few days ago, Unity 8 became available for Ubuntu 13.10. However, it is just an Alpha release and it's not coming to...

Filebot Tops July’s Best Selling Apps on Ubuntu

Are you ready for some good news? Are you interested to know what is the best selling application on Ubuntu for July? Do you...

Backup And Restore All Installed Packages To CD/DVD Using APTonCD On...

APTonCD is an application that can be used to create a local repository with existing installed packages in a CD/DVD. This tool will be...

Manage Startup Services With BUM (Boot-Up Manager) On Ubuntu/Debian

Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to manage runlevels configuration of any Ubuntu/Debian derivative systems. Using this program we can easily start and stop boot-up...

Synkron: A Cross Platform File/Folder Synchronization Software

Synkron is a simple Qt application that allows you to sync files and folders to all your devices. It can be used to sync...