Learn how to use Drush, a Drupal command-line shell, which makes a Drupal administrator’s job easy. It lets you perform internal cleanup, do a fresh Drupal install, install and enable modules, or create users, without the aid of a GUI.
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Linux 3.2 Released
An enhanced Ext4 filesystem, an optimised TCP stack and support for thin provisioning in the Device Mapper are some of the most important new features of the freshly released Linux 3.2. The latest kernel version also brings with it a host of new and improved drivers which, among other things, address graphics hardware from Intel and NVIDIA and wireless devices from Atheros and Broadcom.
Read more »How to edit commited subversion logs
When you put a mistake into some of your comments in subversion repository it's no need to cry. There are simple ways to correct your mistakes. I will show you two most common possibilities.
Read more »Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0
The YaCy project is releasing version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer Free Software search engine. The software takes a radically new approach to search. YaCy does not use a central server. Instead, its search results come from a network of currently over 600 independent peers. In such a distributed network, no single entity decides what gets listed, or in which order results appear.
Read more »Writing standalone programs with EGL and KMS
Both on dri-devel and at the most recent Kernel Summit, the idea of a KMS based console program came up yet again. So in the interest of facilitating the lazyweb to write one, I thought I’d provide a review of what it takes to write a simple KMS program that ties in with GL, just in case anyone wants to port the VTE widget and give me my VTs on a cube. :
Read more »Get Professional Security Testing with BackTrack
Penetration testing involves deliberately attacking your system to determine vulnerabilities. Using a variety of tools designed for specific tasks, you attempt to break into your own system. Exhaustive pen testing helps you assess potential breach points, which you should then plug before anyone attempts to exploit them.
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ISPmail tutorial for Debian Squeeze
You are interested in learning all the basics about running your own mail server using Debian Squeeze? Be my guest. All you need is a computer running Debian (Squeeze) and an internet connection. This tutorial explains step-by-step how to set up such a server and give you lots of background information in the process.
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Implementation Qemu-kvm 0.15.0,SpiceServer and Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 KVM Server
Following bellow seems to be the best way to implement Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 spice enabled, Spice Server 0.8.2 and Spice-Gtk-0.7 with GObject-introspection enabled on Ubuntu 11.10 in meantime close to Beta 1.
Read more »Desktop Summit: Copyright assignments [LWN.net]
Michael Meeks, Bradley Kuhn and Mark Shuttleworth discussed copyright assignment agreements and copyright licensing agreements at the Desktop Summit in Berlin. GNOME Foundation executive director Karen Sandler moderated the short but revealing discussion. Be sure to also read the insightful comments to the article.
Read more »Happy 11th Birthday, Firebird!
I have updated last year message (+1) from Philippe Makowski, President, Firebird Foundation
Read more »Deskolo project: modeling power consumption
One part of the Deskolo project is to estimate the electricity consumption by considering only activity indicators of a computer. The solution proposed by CEA-LIST consists in using some Machine Learning techniques which are able to construct a predictive model from a dataset of examples.
Read more »Effortless File Sharing Across Platforms with FreeNAS
One of the most important tasks an administrator has is to set up and maintain storage resources and let users share files across the network. FreeNAS, a NAS server based on FreeBSD, makes implementing NAS simple. With FreeNAS, you can share files among the Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Unix machines on your network.
Read more »Successful use of DDE in ArchHurd
We are happy to announce that DDE has been successfully packaged for Arch Hurd! This means that we now have the ability to compile drivers from Linux 2.6 for the Hurd.
If you want to run DDE now for your network card, the wiki should help - feel free to update it!
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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)?
After building the infrastructure to analyse the code in an Ubuntu release I decided to satisfy a simple curiosity and figure out how much GNU software is actually part of a modern distribution.
Read more »The Architecture of Open Source Applications
In new free book the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to this book provide unique insights into how they think.
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