100th article: top 10 posts in Linuxaria

Dec 282010

It seems almost incredible, but www.linuxaria.com has reached its first 100 articles, I take this opportunity to thank all those who followed and contributed to the success of the Blog, and also to make some statistic and publish the top 10 (for rating among the first 100 published articles) .

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Top 10 article so far:

#10: INTRODUCTION TO LVS – Linux Virtual Server, LVS is an advanced load balancing solution for Linux systems. It is an open source project started by Wensong Zhang in May 1998. The mission of the project is to build a high-performance and highly available server for Linux using clustering technology, which provides good scalability, reliability and serviceability.

#9: 7 PRACTICAL USES OF OPENSSL – On Linux the most used and popular programthat deals with security and encryption is OpenSSL .
OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. The core library (written in the C programming language) implements the basic cryptographic functions and provides various utility functions. Wrappers allowing the use of the OpenSSL library in a variety of computer languages are available.

#8: LINUX DISTRO AS FOOD ? ? – There are many articles that explain the different characteristics of the distributions of Linux, today I also want to try it my way.
If every Linux distribution was a food, which would you choose to eat?
I’ll try to resume for every distro the keywords that come to my mind thinking at it and see what’s the first Food result that google image give with these words and the word food.

#7: 3 WAYS TO BOOT UBUNTU LINUX FROM A USB FLASH DRIVE – In this article we’ll see 3 way of installing Ubuntu on a USB drive.
We’ll see how to create a live USB Ubuntu disk, just like your live CD. Only difference is that we’ll be booting and installing Ubuntu using this live USB diskette, and as last option how to do a full installation of ubuntu on your USB drive.

#6: OPEN SOURCE TOOL FOR VIDEO EDITING – There are many excellent open source tool to create professional solutions.
Today I want to do a roundup on the video editing and show you some of the best open source software available for Linux to do video editing. If you know other software, feel free to drop me a note on the comments:
OpenShot, Kino, Cinellera, Lives, Kdenlive, Pitivi,VideoLan Movie Creator

#5: 7 UNCOMMON USES OF IPTABLES – On the web there are plenty of guides related to iptables, the firewall included in all the latest Linux distributions.
iptables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols; iptables applies to IPv4, ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and ebtables as a special for Ethernet frames.

#4: WEBCAM SERVER ON LINUX 2 – My guide on how to make a webcam server has had a lot of feedback and so I decided to give two other methods to achieve it with two different software webcam-server and ZoneMinder

#3: KVM, VIRTUALBOX OR VMWARE ? – In this article I want to talk about three great virtualization software for your desktop computer.
Why virtualize?
The current computers have faster CPUs and more RAM compared to those of 3 or 4 years ago. There is more ability to run a second operating system in parallel to your main operating system. But why do it?
To have another operating system (Windows, Linux or other)
For testing a new distribution
To prepare an environment dedicated to a product. For example, I installed a virtual machine with apache + mysql + everything I need for running a local a copy of my WordPress site

#2: WEBCAM SERVER ON LINUX – In these days all the new netbooks and most laptops have built-in webcam, or at least add one external costs very little, apart from the traditional use in video calls you can use our Linux box to create a monitoring device, it can be used to monitor your child while you are at another PC, or your pet while you are at work, or have a home-made video surveillance system for your properties.
To accomplish this we will use the software Motion, the software is present in many distributions, I will give commands using my Ubuntu 10.04.

#1: 5 UNUSUAL GAMES FOR LINUX We often hear that there are no games on Linux, or that are much worse than their counterparts for windows, so today I want to show some unusual games that run perfectly on our favorite operating system.