Most of the time, installing software in Linux is a breeze. Package management utilities like Apt, Portage, and Yum have made software installation in Linux even easier than it is in Windows (in my opinion at least). If you know what you want, you simply tell your package manager that you want it, [...]
This Howto covers the installation of XenServer 5.5.0
and the creation of virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator
console. XenServer is a free virtualization platform from Citrix, the
company behind the well known Xen virtualization engine. XenServer
makes it easy to create, run and manage Xen virtual machines with the
XenCenter administrator console. The XenServer installation CD contains
a full Linux [...]
This is the “DiskSafe” idea used to store backups of server data.
This could be used to replace physical tape volume and still provide
portablility. I have found pieces of this information around the
Internet but nothing putting it all together.
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This
article will show you how to set up openerp-server 5.0.0-3-1 +
openerp-client 5.0.0-3-1 + openerp-web 5.0.1 on Ubuntu Server 9.04. Open
ERP (formerly named Tiny ERP) is the leader open-source ERP/CRM system
written mostly in Python and initiated in Belgium. It offers a
three-tier web architecture, ease of use and flexibility.
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There are various ways to try Debian before you ‘buy’ it. One is the live CD either Debian or Ubuntu, and the other is to run a self contained install from a USB drive. Seeing as these handy little gadgets are getting larger and cheaper as time goes in, this is a pretty viable method
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Scribus is an excellent Desktop Publishing tool. This Open Source project provides a great way to create document, brochures, etc. This tutorial will show you how to set up links to web sites in your document that will link to the actual web site.
The best way to learn how to insert links is
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I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
Many of these commands can increase productivity, etc. by making things (for me at least), easier to do. My system desktop has a transparent terminal integrated into
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When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and it’s associated applications tucked away in it’s own virtual system. This way if
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Nagios is a free opensource enterprise-class monitoring system released under GPL License. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Nagios is Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform with 10 years in development scaling to 100,000+ nodes. From my personal [...]
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers
(running Debian Lenny) to one large storage server (distributed
storage) with GlusterFS.
The client system (Debian Lenny as well) will be able to access the
storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered
file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates
various storage bricks over Infiniband [...]
This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder,
a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that
supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS
access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX).
This article demonstrates how you can work
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“TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate functionality, but better. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications [...]
Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features [...]
For those who are using Ubuntu Jaunty, you will notice that there is a change in the way the system notifies you to upgrade software. In the past, an icon will appear on the system tray whenever there is new update available. In Ubuntu Jaunty, instead of showing the icon, the update manager will now [...]
This howto shows one method of doing mass virtualhosting using
mod_rewrite to dynamically map a list of directories on your filesystem
to virtual hosts. Additionally, by rewriting the incoming URL to the
user’s home directory we can make use of suEXEC to have Apache execute
CGI scripts as the owner of the script.
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