Easily manage your PPA in Ubuntu with Y PPA Manager

Easily manage your PPA in Ubuntu with Y PPA Manager

Ubuntu software repository is one of the bigger, and this means that you can easily install a lot of software with the Ubuntu Software Center or from the command line with a simple sudo apt-get install softwarename, but sometimes you want a software that is not present or perhaps a newer release of the one […]

Everything you need to know about APC (Alternate PHP cache)

Everything you need to know about APC (Alternate PHP cache)

If you are a system administrator and you want to push the performance of your PHP website such as Drupal, WordPress or wrote by you or other programmers, there are good chances that you’ve heard about the Alternate PHP Cache or simply APC. The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache […]

DNSCrypt, crypt your DNS request

DNSCrypt, crypt your DNS request

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 […]

Csync2 a filesystem syncronization tool for Linux

Sometimes is useful to sync automatically files over the net between 2 or more computers, maybe you want to keep some configuration files aligned on different servers or maybe you have a cluster of web servers and you want to keep their document root aligned so your customer will always see the same result. You […]

Some submissions from the Zorin Contest

Some submissions from the Zorin Contest

Around a month ago we ( Zorin OS team, Linuxaria and DarkDuck) announced the winners of the Zorin Contest and we published their works on our sites. The Contest has been really successful and so, looking at all the works we have received, I’ve decided to publish on the Blog some more of them. These works are the result of the contest […]