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How to Secure a Mail Server Using Encryption

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and its descendant TLS (Transport Layer Security) are the most widely used protocols for encrypting data that is exchanged between a server and a client. These protocols often use X.509 certificates and asymmetric cryptography. STARTTTLS is another method of securing plain-text communication. This protocol also encrypts data with SSL or TLS, […]
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Valve Says Virtual Reality Hardware Could Transform Entertainment in Two Years

Perhaps no company in the video game industry is as prescient as Valve. The Half-Life 2 developer foresaw the coming importance of digital distribution in 2003, fighting against market forces to launch its Steam platform. Now, more than a decade later, it sees another major change on the horizon that will change the way we play games: virtual reality. Valve’s Michael Abrash — a programming veteran who helped create Windows NT and co-authored Quake with John Carmack — spoke about the technology at the recent Steam Dev Days conference. In his slides and notes from the talk, now available to pore through in PDF form, Abrash says that Valve has already offered support to Oculus, and that he sees “compelling, consumer-priced VR…

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Five Ways to Bring a More Social, Open Development Environment to Your Company

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Based on the success and effectiveness of the open source community, development organizations are taking a close look at the methods used within the open source world to understand how they can apply internal development to further increase creativity and accelerate development.

To facilitate widespread, collaborative development, the open source world depends on a core infrastructure that enables individual developers to create, contribute and comment on the works of others. This infrastructure, combined with a widely adopted set of operating norms, enables developers to find and engage with projects that focus on common areas of interest and expertise. It also allows developers to connect with and share their skills and knowledge with other developers, bringing their specialized talents together to solve big problems.

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QBittorrent 3.1.5 Released – Install on Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint and Fedora

qBittorent is a Bittorent client which is developed to provide free software alternative of utorrent. It’s a Cross platform torrent client which provides the same features on all the major platforms like Linux, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and Windows. qBittorent has recently released its new version 3.1.5…

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Development Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 6.0 Test 1

Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the first test release of Parsix GNU/Linux 6.0, a Debian-based distribution featuring the GNOME 3.10 desktop: “Parsix GNU/Linux 6.0 (code name ‘Trev’) brings the latest stable GNOME desktop environment, a brand new kernel, updated installer and systemd. This version has been….

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FreeBSD 10.0 Lands, Targets VMs and Laptops

Does Hyper-V friendliness signal legacy status is utterly entrenched?

The tenth version of the open source operating system FreeBSD has emerged.…

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Development Release: Mageia 4 RC

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the only release candidate for the upcoming Mageia 4: “Finally Mageia 4 RC release is out! After many nights working on the remaining nasty bugs, the CD and DVD images are now available on your favourite public mirrors. Thumbs up to….

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LLVM Clang vs. GCC Compilers For AMD’s Steamroller

Besides the interesting but disappointing AMD Kaveri Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Linux driver benchmarks published this morning, here’s some more AMD A10-7850K “Kaveri” benchmarks for your viewing pleasure…

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Phoronix Test Suite Joins GitHub

Our leading open-source, cross-platform automated benchmarking software is now available via GitHub…

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Steps to Install Wine 1.7.11 on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API and will always be free software. Approximately half of source code is written by its volunteers, and remaining effort sponsored by commercial interests, especially CodeWeavers.

 

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