What can you do to stand out from the hundreds of other Linux distros that already exist? There are a number of angles you can explore for this – choose one, two or all of them if you want!
Read more »Software sucks, or why I don't trust proprietary closed source software
Now, can somebody really trust proprietary software at this point?
Read more »Merb gets merged into Rails 3!
"It’s christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We’re ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3! ..."
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Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions
A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers
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OpenLDAP Quick Tips: Replication Strategies
Here's the 22nd tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series: "You are not sure what type of OpenLDAP replication to use, but you know you need to". This tip won't actually go into the technical setup (and isn't very quick ;-) ) of the different replication types, we'll leave that for another set of tips.
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How to: Sniff Wireless Packets with WireShark
WireShark is free software that sniffs packets on wireless networks. Learn tips on configuring and using this tool when analyzing and troubleshooting 802.11 wireless networks.
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LPI exam 101 prep, Topic 101: Hardware and architecture
Welcome to your starting point for studying for the Linux® certification exams. This tutorial series serves as a comprehensive study guide so you can take the exams with confidence! And even if you're not preparing for Linux certification at this time, this series helps you build fundamental skills on Linux systems administration.
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Ctalk Adds Full-Language Capabilities, Just In Time Processing, Streaming I/O Extensions
Ctalk's object-oriented library extensions for C programs now provide full language capabilities that allow progammers to use Ctalk objects and messages within most C statements, and add classes and methods to otherwise standard source code modules.
Read more »Greasefire Finds Greasemonkey Scripts for the Site You're Visiting
Greasefire is a companion extension to the popular Greasemonkey extension designed to help you customize your web browsing by finding user scripts for any page you're currently visiting.
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Open Vulnerability Assessment System
OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a complete tool for network security scanning including a graphical user front-end. I is used to detect security problems in remote systems and applications. The OpenVAS development team consists of various interested parties from academia and commercial entities as well as individuals.
Read more »Barracuda offers a new -- and free -- alternative to Spamhaus
A new, free alternative to Spamhaus has arrived: the Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL), provided by well-known, open source-based Barracuda Networks. And Barracuda CEO Dean Drako says the company has no plans to charge for the service in the future.
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Configure Port Forwarding to a VirtualBox Guest OS
Running a server as a guest in a VirtualBox virtual machine isn't much good when you can't network with the guest OS from your host machine. Instead of setting up host interface networking, you can simply port forward though VirtualBox's NAT. Once port forwarding is set up, any computer on your network will be able to network with your guest OS though forwarded ports on your host.
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Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 8.10
This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 8.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
Read more »Nagios Network Monitoring System Setup in Ubuntu
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well.
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Write Your Own Musician!
Let me just tell you that a collection of musicians has been written today that you can throw in any song you want. It's hilarious -they don't even know what's happening-.
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