ScreenGen, how to easily create a thumbnail from a video with Linux

ScreenGen, how to easily create a thumbnail from a video with Linux

Original article by Roberto Ferramosca, published in Italian on lffl.org ScreenGen is a useful software with which we can easily create an image with various thumbnail of a video ready to be shared or stored in our blogs, forums etc.. In the last years we have seen a lot of hype on the net about […]

Interview with Patrick one of the men behind Emmabuntüs

Interview with Patrick one of the men behind Emmabuntüs

Today I want to present you Emmabuntüs  a Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu and designed to facilitate the repacking of computers donated to Emmaüs Communities. The name itself is a combination of two words: Ubuntu and Emmaüs. Emmabuntüs 2 has been released on July 21 2013 and it’s based on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS, this is because the team want a Long Term support base distribution, […]

How to Really Secure Your Linux VPS SSH Service

Article By Stanton Levens Let face it, the Secure Shell (SSH) daemon running on your VPS is the most sensitive service open to attack on your system. Any hacker worth their salt will first try to gain access to your VPS via SSH and 99.9% of all VPS connected to the internet run this service by […]

How to convince apt-get NOT to use IPv6

Recently I installed a Debian 7 VPS on Linode and as first thing I wanted to do an update of the system, but I found a small problem in doing this : # apt-get update 0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (2610:148:1f10:3::89)] [Connecting to security.debian.org (2607:ea00:101:3c0b:207:e9ff:fe00:e595)] Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg [1,672 B] … Get:15 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en […]

Linux Games: Aquaria

Linux Games: Aquaria

I’ve bought this game some humble bundle ago, but I played it last week to test the joypad…and I must admit that I’ve been surprised of the beauty of this little game. Aquaria is a 2D sidescrolling action-adventure computer game designed by the independent game company Bit Blot, which developed and originally published the game. […]