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In this article we examine just how simple and quick it can be to install Linux entirely within logical volumes using LVM.

This includes swap and boot partitions, the latter of which will be required since everything else, including your root and home partitions we will be formatted with the high performance XFS filesystem.

The entire process shouldn't take more than 5 minutes using this cookbook, dedicating about two minutes of that time prior to the OS install and about three minutes of post install configuration prior to rebooting a live Linux system... Read more »

We thought we would clarify the process by which someone creates a SSH key pair in order to securely connect to one or more remote hosts.

This method alleviates and obviates the need for you to login using your password in combination with your username on a remote host, but more importantly, it secures that connection because afterward, you should disable the ability to login with a password for the given account... Read more »

Today we received an email notification form Digium. All Digium partners received the same email heralding the death of one of the few proprietary systems that has been conveniently overlooked by the FOSS community for about a decade.

Skype. The ubiquitous niche carving communication system combining at least as good as old Ma Bell's POTS based voice telephony with chat, video and conferencing all three of those methods into one single, and [albeit proprietary] free application... Read more »

So you've been searching for a tool that you can group and pile a bunch of your live work into, providing continuous access when you want it, and available from anywhere you need it, when you need it.

Something that can manage several remote sessions at once, and something you don't really ever have to close down. Something that works with or without a mouse. Something that works equally well in a simple console, or under X and your favorite window manager. i.e., KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, etc.

Enter twin. A seasoned and stable software offering that can greatly impact your productivity and organize the multitudes of local and remote sessions you typically manage. With twin, you don't have to continuously launch several Xterm windows, or open a bunch of tabs you can't see all at once in an Xterm window, or keep switching around from one virtual console to another - you can keep everything all nice and neat in one, single toybox, and you can access it from anywhere, at anytime... Read more »

Mageia Linux has tossed its hat into the ring of Linux distributions with the release of it first alpha. A second alpha release in the middle of March is expected to yield a liveCD, with a revised target date of 01 June for the first stable release... Read more »