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Take some of the headaches out of managing sever farms with Cfengine 3. Use this automation introduction to save time, money and spare yourself crippling manual mistakes.
Mark Burgess [...] put together an entire configuration management system in 1993 while doing a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Oslo, just because he was tired of managing his systems manually with scripts and wanted to do it better. Which is right up there with [...] Linus.
The 2.8 release will again feature GUI USB stick images along with the standard ISO (std CD) and USB IMG (1G) files for both i386 and x86-64. The GUI USB stick image requires a 4G USB stick and features a basic, working X environment with firefox, fully broken out source and pkgsrc trees including the .git repo, and a larger set of pre-installed packages.
The organisers of linux.conf.au have done a fantastic job in making all presentations and tutorials available to watch online - in Ogg Theora format naturally. If you were disappointed to miss out on linux.conf.au, this is the next best thing to being there.
This happens lot of times. I login as a normal user and start to edit httpd.conf or lighttpd.conf or named.conf in vim / vi text editor. However, I'm not able to save changes due to permission issue (all config files are owned by root). How do I save file without creating a temporary file (/tmp/httpd.conf) and then move the same (mv /tmp/httpd.conf /etc/httpd) as root using vim / vi itself?
"Get ready to meet your favorite browser! " Flock 2 tells me at the end of its installation process. Ok Flock, I'm ready. Blow me away!
Sadly, I'm immediately greeted by a cheesey stick figure flash intro to the new features. What the hell am I getting myself into?
Ahhhh….the old days. Wait, no I have only used Linux since 2004, but thats enough to still know that X.org.conf was still fully functional at that time. With new releases of distributions such as Ubuntu 9.04, we now see X.org.conf as a deprecated.
Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is an open source tool for network scanning and security auditing. This intro gives you some basic and interesting Nmap usages with examples on a GNU/Linux system.
