If you're running a web application with user registration, you may need to have users or administrators receive email from the application. When you just need to send outgoing email and don't need to receive, it&'s easy to set up Postfix to do this for you. You can even set the "from" header so that replies will go to your own email account. This how-to was tested on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server.

The Windows operating system is not the only operating system with a registry. And I do realize that many of you cringed when you read the words "Windows" and "registry" in the same sentence. But don't worry - the GNOME registry isn't such a beast that can take your machine down with a single, poorly executed change.

As announced on Thursday, however, Shuttleworth is resigning as Canonical CEO to focus on improving the Ubuntu user experience. Is this good or bad for Ubuntu? And what about Canonical?

While you weren't looking, the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution changed several features under the hood. Kyle Rankin, coauthor of The Official Ubuntu Server Book, points out the most distressing changes and explains why you need to suffer through them and ultimately come to acceptance.

Video of GNOME desktop themed for Christmas:

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are...

I got a phone call yesterday from a recruiter wondering if I would be interested in a Linux administrator position. The first question she asked was did I have any experience with Oracle RAC and I could hear her eyes glaze over as I answered her with a brief description of what I have done with RAC. After shaking herself back to life, she asked if I had any experience with Unbreakable Linux.