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10 Indie Games for Linux part 1

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Dec 182011

In a former article regarding Linux games a reader commented that for Linux there are always the same title and nothing new really comes out.
So i’ve decided to explore a bit the indie game market and make 2 post about them, in this one i’ll show you 5 freely downloadable Indie games, in the next one i’ll post 5 game that must be purchased (but the costs are relatively low).

So today we’ll take a look at: dwarf fortress, epic inventor, abuse, smokin’guns and xonotic.
Online now part 2 with a review of: Towns, Eschalon, Survivors of Ragnarök, Atom Zombie Smasher and Steel Storm: Burning Retribution.
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The best articles of November 2011

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Dec 162011

I’m a bit late this month, but here we go, these are the top 7 of the most read articles from Linuxaria in the month of November, read them now if you missed the opportunity to do it.

7 – Permanent SSH Tunnels with autossh

There are many occasions where you need to create connections to machines and services that are protected by firewalls because it is appropriate to adequately protect them, but for which the creation of a VPN becomes an excessive burden.

For this reason, the ability to port forwarding via SSH is very useful for creating an encrypted tunnel from one machine to another, allowing you to enable only local access (such as a MySQL only listens locally) safely, with the only the problem that in case of problems, the SSH connection (and its tunnels) could fall.

Cryptkeeper an applet to manage your EncFS

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Dec 152011

Yesterday I’ve done an introduction to EncFS, a Free (GPL) FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem that transparently encrypts files, using an arbitrary directory as storage for the encrypted files. i’ve show how install and use it from the command line, but there is also an easier way to integrate it with your Desktop: Cryptkeeper.

Cryptkeeper is a Linux system tray applet that manages EncFS encrypted folders.

Introduction to EncFS, Encrypted Filesystem

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Dec 142011

encfs-combo EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. EncFS is open source software, licensed under the GPL.

As with most encrypted filesystems, Encfs is meant to provide security against off-line attacks; ie your notebook or backups fall into the wrong hands, etc. The way Encfs works is different from the “loopback” encrypted filesystem support built into the Linux kernel because it works on files at a time, not an entire block device. This is a big advantage in some ways, but does not come without a cost.
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Bash and I – The Bourne-Again SHell

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Dec 112011

by
Frank Harris-Smith

Bash has been around since pre-historic times, at least before GNU/Linux’s first release in 1991.

My first personal encounter with Bash was in 1993. This was two years before Microsoft Windows 95 was released and Windows 3.1 was just a bad joke. The Software Development Company I was working for was using SCO Unix running on i486 systems to power Kiosks for displaying, printing and selling sheet music.

My second encounter with Bash was over a decade later was when I first started experimenting with GNU/Linux. I had found a CD in the back of a Linux book with RedHat 7.2 on it– which used an older kernel that had a few missing functions. Like accessing a digital camera, a simple USB Memory Device. So I wrote Bash scripts to mount and access the camera. Then a few more scripts to access a Palm-Pilot like device (My Sony Clie’) and standard USB FlashDrives
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