Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)
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. It is a pass-through filesystem, not
an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an
existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian
Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 to encrypt your data.
Linux ecosystem consists of so many people doing a great job, and it is only natural for someone not to know everyone out there. Many worthy developers are unknown to the majority of users and sometimes their magnificent projects are unused, or underused due to low publicity. Salih Emin is one of those, and his projects are simply very useful especially for the millions of Ubuntu users, so we decided to do this interview and have him explain everything. Enjoy!
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #264 for the week April 30 – May 6, 2012, and the full version is available here.
In this issue we cover:
Quantal open for development
Ubuntu Developer Summit: May 7-11
Ask Mark & Ubuntu Open Week Days 1-3
Welcome New Members
Ubuntu Stats
Ubuntu Serbia presents at Share Conference
Launchpad Clinic at UDS-Q
Daniel Holbach: The importance of apps in Ubuntu
Jason Gerard DeRose: Daily builds are your canary in the mine shaft
David Wonderly: Kubuntu: Updates
Serge Hallyn: First round of kvm performance tests
Daniel Holbach: “After the release” is “before the release”
Stephane Graber: LXC in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Lubuntu Blog: New Lubuntu website
Xubuntu: FAQ for Xubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth on shaking up system software
Free as in awesome: our favorite open source apps for Ubuntu 12.04
Android’s new ally against the iPhone: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin review
New Ubuntu 12.04: Any hope against Windows and Apple?
Press Reaction to Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 12.04 PC OEMs: An Overview
Two Years Fly By: Ubuntu Precise Pangolin Pads Into Production
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
And much more!
The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
Elizabeth Krumbach
Jasna Bencic
Bojan Bogdanovic
Can Celasun
Feyisayo
Read more at The Fridge
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #264 for the week April 30 – May 6, 2012, and the full version is available here.
In this issue we cover:
Quantal open for development
Ubuntu Developer Summit: May 7-11
Ask Mark & Ubuntu Open Week Days 1-3
Welcome New Members
Ubuntu Stats
Ubuntu Serbia presents at Share Conference
Launchpad Clinic at UDS-Q
Daniel Holbach: The importance of apps in Ubuntu
Jason Gerard DeRose: Daily builds are your canary in the mine shaft
David Wonderly: Kubuntu: Updates
Serge Hallyn: First round of kvm performance tests
Daniel Holbach: “After the release” is “before the release”
Stephane Graber: LXC in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Lubuntu Blog: New Lubuntu website
Xubuntu: FAQ for Xubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth on shaking up system software
Free as in awesome: our favorite open source apps for Ubuntu 12.04
Android’s new ally against the iPhone: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin review
New Ubuntu 12.04: Any hope against Windows and Apple?
Press Reaction to Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 12.04 PC OEMs: An Overview
Two Years Fly By: Ubuntu Precise Pangolin Pads Into Production
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
And much more!
The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
Elizabeth Krumbach
Jasna Bencic
Bojan Bogdanovic
Can Celasun
Feyisayo
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 One of the biggest stories of this week was Google’s announcement of its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage solution. You can sign up for 5GB of free storage from Google, use it efficiently with your Android device, and find out more about it here. However, many Linux users were more than annoyed that the cloud storage service doesn’t support Linux. That changed on Tuesday, though, when Teresa Wu at Google assured Linux users, in a Google+ discussion, that they shoud “hang tight!” because Linux support is coming.
Read more at OSTATIC
The news has been quick to spread today that Electronic Arts will be making a brief presentation at the Ubuntu Developer Summit next week…
Read more at Phoronix
Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS now includes support for the Xen Hypervisor (version 4.1.2), Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) packages and XCP OpenStack plug-ins
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 Well there’s a new kid in town here in the Linux blogosphere, and it’s already caused quite a stir. It’s one of the Ubuntu clan, as its nickname makes clear, but that’s as far as the foolin’ goes. With five years of support and a scaly, tough hide, this one’s here to stay. With time on its side and its eye on the prize, it may just blaze a new trail. Can freedom take hold in a world that’s been dominated for so long? That’s the new hope among the Pangolin-watching throngs. “Literally every review of Precise I’ve read has been positive, and that’s in spite of the fact that it’s still got Unity in it,” began Google + blogger Linux Rants.
Read more at LinuxInsider
== PostgreSQL Weekly News – May 06 2012 ==
PostgreSQL conference China 2012 will be on June 14-17, 2012 in Beijing.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgconfchina2012
PostgreSQL Magazine #01 is out now.
http://pgmag.org/01/
PostgreSQL Turkey User Group is organizing 2nd Turkish PostgreSQL
Conference in Istanbul, on May 12, 2012. Magnus Hagander will be
giving the keynote. Please register for free:
http://pgday.PostgreSQL.org.tr/2012/
== PostgreSQL Product News ==
ODB 2.0.0, an ORM for C++, supports PostgreSQL.
http://www.codesynthesis.com/pipermail/odb-announcements/2012/000013.html
== PostgreSQL Jobs for May ==
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2012-05/threads.php
Continue reading == PostgreSQL Weekly News – May 06 2012 ==
There was a time when I would go to Sourceforge first to find any open source project. That hasn’t been the case in years for me, as first Google Code and more recently GitHub have become the primary places for me (and many others) to find and host open source projects.
That’s why I was a little surprised to see that Apache OpenOffice is going to Sourceforge.
OpenOffice (OOo) is Oracle’s castoff project, backed strongly by IBM. The bulk of community and ALL major Linux distros have moved on to LibreOffice.
Read more at InternetNews.com
What’s New
This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.1. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 5.1.
Individual chapters and the full book are available on the wiki. A printed copy can be purchased here.
Other books for v3.4 (Draw Guide, Impress Guide, Calc Guide, Math Guide) in various stages of completion are also on that wiki page. More help is always welcome.
We are happy to announce immediate availability of GIMP 2.8 — a new stable version of GNU Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting work.
With this version we are introducing some long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced brush dynamics and the much desired optional single-window mode. We also started applying other important changes to the user interface that bring us closer to matching the product vision.
For detailed information about changes since 2.6 please read the release notes. Source code is available for downloading from a plethora of mirrors, a build for Windows will soon be available, and we hope to see a build for Mac OS X released as well.
We’d like to thank everyone who participated in development of GIMP 2.8: programmers, translators, documentation writers (updated user manual is a work in progress), and testers. We also thank our user community for the dedication and support — we needed it more than ever.
Now that this version is finally released, we are grasping the future with both hands. Stay tuned: some really exciting news will follow.
The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise
Pangolin) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3,
and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control
panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web
browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or
Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd,
SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of
Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).
First impressions may be fleeting, but I like what I see so far in Xubuntu 12.04.
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Record number of new contributors + 10 Google Summer of Code projects
Berlin, May 2, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.3, the fourth version of the 3.5 family. LibreOffice 3.5.3 provides additional stability to corporate and individual users of the best free office suite ever.
“In April 2012, 34 new developers contributed code to The Document Foundation, the largest number since January 2011 [Source: http://www.ohloh.net]. Eight of them have already committed more than once, thanks to the help of an extremely welcoming community, where old developers spend a portion of their time mentoring new ones to bring them up to speed,” comments Norbert Thiebaud, a volunteer developer active since September 28, 2010. “In less than two years, we have been able to build an authentically diverse community, where full time and volunteer developers coexist and help each other, as it should happen in every free software project.”
Ten of the new developers are Google Summer of Code 2012 students, who will work at developing the following features:
- Calc performance improvements;
- Lightproof improvements;
- collaborative spreadsheet editing using Telepathy;
- a Microsoft Publisher import filter;
- a signed PDF export;
- a smartphone remote control;
- a new UI for picking templates;
- a Java based GUI for an Android viewer;
- an improved Impress SVG export filter;
- tooling for more and better tests.
LibreOffice 3.5.3 is available for immediate download from the following link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.
Change logs are available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.3/RC1 and http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.3/RC2.
KDE is a free and open-source advanced desktop environment. It provides a Plasma workspaces and variety of applications for different cross-platforms. Now the latest KDE plasma and applications version 4.8.3 is available to update for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and for Ubuntu Precise derivatives as well.
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Xubuntu is the only lightweight based Ubuntu version that is getting long term support from Canonical. It features the XFCE 4.8 desktop and also comes with the Ubuntu Software Centre
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Gimp users, rejoice! After 3.5 years of development, Gimp 2.8 has finally arrived. This version of Gimp brings a plethora of changes and improvement, making Gimp a even better image editing software than its previous version.
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The IRCC is now taking applications for a number of new operator positions across several channels.
* #ubuntu
* #ubuntu-offtopic
* #kubuntu
* #kubuntu-offtopic
* #edubuntu
* #ubuntu-mythtv
* #xubuntu
* #xubuntu-offtopic
* #ubuntu-bots
* #ubuntustudio
* #ubuntu-server
* #lubuntu
* #lubuntu-offtopic
(that is everything except #ubuntu-meeting #ubuntu-ops #ubuntu+1 which have slightly different rules)
If you’re active on our IRC channels and you are available, and if you’ve been aching to help, you should consider applying! You might get your chance if:
* You are great at resolving conflicts
* You are very patient. Superhuman nerve control is a basic IRC operator feature
* You can take criticism
* You are happy when helping and advising others
* In addition to the Code of Conduct http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct and our IRC Guidelines https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines, you are happy to also adhere to the Leadership Code of Conduct http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-conduct and the Operator Guidelines https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/OperatorGuidelines
In general, please do not consider becoming an operator because it could be “fun”. It is not, it’s hard work. However, it is often quite rewarding, and you get to operate with a great team of people. You don’t need to be an IRC guru, but you do need to know enough to be able to learn more.
Please be aware that *many* applicants will
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