ownCloud is a free Open Source software, used to setup your own personal cloud for file sharing, Calender, Contact and Bookmark sharing and Personal Audio/Video Streaming. It is pretty easy to setup and manage.

I’m running Fedora 18 as my main workstation. I’m using routinely Citrix applications, and needed to install Citrix Receiver.

Samba is used to allow users to share and use files, folders and printers between Linux and Windows systems. In this how-to tutorial let us see how to install and configure samba server.

Following on from our previous post by one of my colleagues, I thought it would be a good idea to dive a little deeper in to the background of the Domain Name Server (DNS). When it comes to the internet, … Continue reading →

DNS, Domain Name System, translates hostnames or URLs into IP addresses. For example if we type www.unixmen.com in browser, the DNS server translates the domain name into its associated ip address. Since the IP addresses are hard to remember, DNS … Continue reading →

It’s no great secret that I have been a long time user and supporter of OpenSUSE. And I am also a huge fan of Bodhi Linux. And between the two of them, they remain among my favorite Linux distributions. One … Continue reading →

KDE Telepathy is an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client for KDE desktop, which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols. As its name implies, the software uses the Telepathy framework … Continue reading →

Fedora18   is  coming  with this  strange  option that the  Log Out is  standard   disabled. How to enable Log Out  in fedora 18  ?

NFS, Network File System, is a server-client protocol used for sharing files between linux/unix to unix/linux systems. NFS enables you to mount a remote share locally. You can then directly access any of the files on that remote share.

The last few years, many users upload their how-to videos (also known as videorials — like tutorials) in Youtube, showing their Linux desktop and explaining how to do a bunch of stuff. So instead of reading an article or a … Continue reading →