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VPN Gate is an academic experiment project carried out by the Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan with the aim to circumvent government firewalls. With the motto “We No Need Berlin Wall on the Internet” Nobori, the creator of VPN Gate wants to help individuals in countries that restrict the use of Internet by perceptually blocking websites (Pirate Bay, KAT, YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, etc), with a system that is not only simple to use, but is also completely free.
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This guide will take you through the installation of L2TP over IPsec VPN connections on your Linux workstation, be it Mint or Ubuntu. First launch your terminal, and paste the following lines therein:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:werner-jaeger/ppa-werner-vpn
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install l2tp-ipsec-vpn
l2tp-ipsec-vpn relies on Openswan and xl2tpd packages as the underlying protocol handlers. But you don’t have to install them singularly. Both packages and other dependencies are installed automatically from the repository with the above commands.
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The Ubuntu team has released Ubuntu 13.04 Beta 2, the second and last beta before the final release. Codenamed “Raring Ringtail”, Ubuntu 13.04 Final will be released on April 25. Final betas are available to download for the Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core Products.
The other flavors too have final betas of version 13.04; Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu-Studio. Including Ubuntu Kylin, Chinese developed version of Canonical’s Ubuntu.
Download Ubuntu 13.04 Final Beta.
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For Ubuntu, Windows and Mac. Deluge is simple BitTorrent client that covers all the basics a BitTorrent client should have. But that’s also it downside, just too simple, no bells or whistles. The most current version of Deluge, v1.3.6 seems to support µTP (uTorrrent Transport Protocol), provided by libtorrent. This used to be a major drawback for many users. uTP is a transport protocol which uses one-way delay measurements for its congestion controller to avoid network breakdowns. More»
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The Document Foundation is announcing the release of LibreOffice version 4.0. Libreoffice is a forked version of OpenOffice with a very active developer community contributing to it.
During the last seven months, since the branch of LibreOffice 3.6 and during the entire development cycle of LibreOffice 4.0, developers have made over 10,000 commits. On average, one commit every 30 minutes, including weekends and the holiday season: a further testimonial of the incredible vitality of the project.
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