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Archive for November, 2007

Miro the free and Open Source alternative to Joost

By • Nov 19th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open Source Advocacy

The version 1.0 of the application formerly know as Democracy player has been released. The new-born, bug fixed Miro is an improved open source video player that sets as its major objective – be better to Joost. Miro is DRM-free and friendly to all content creators. It connects to all the popular video sharing sites […]

Filezilla 3.0 – FTP File Transfer for Linux

By • Nov 16th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks

If you are tired of the rather problematic gFTP that comes as a pre-installed in Linux distros like Ubuntu, like I am, then get Filezilla 3.0. Filezilla is a popular open source, FTP file transfer client and now cross-platform. Windows users know it well, Linux users have the chance to appreciate its capabilites with the […]

John the Linux Password Ripper

By • Nov 15th, 2007 • Filed under: Security, Ubuntu

John is a cross platform password cracker that can be used to regain your lost Linux password. It is a good administrative tool for a multi-user system. The Linux version of John, that also has versions for Dos and Windows, comes as a downloadable source code, together with its signature. On Debian based platforms like […]

The VMware Server 2.0 Beta is now available

By • Nov 14th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages

VMware a leading company when it comes to virtual platforms released lately the beta of it’s next server platform. This servers gives the possibility to run an operating system on another- (some sought of WINE but in a bigger way). You could run Windows on Ubuntu. Better still Ubuntu on Windows . The above mentioned […]

Keep your passwords secure with KeePassX

By • Nov 13th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks

KeePassX is a cross platform password application that saves your various passwords in a single local database (on your PC), using a single master password and/or a key-file. – It’s a multi-platform ported version of KeePass, an open source password manager for Microsoft Windows. KeePass is also portable and has versions for Blackberry, PocketPC, BlackBerry, […]