Each day, the drumbeat for Ubuntu Server Edition is getting slightly louder. In recent weeks, a growing list of ISVs (independent software vendors) has vowed to support Canonical's Linux server operating system
Read more »Another Small Victory for Ubuntu Server Edition
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.4
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.4 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL
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When it comes to open source databases, MySQL gets the lion’s share of attention. This is unfortunate, because out of the two, PostgreSQL offers much more security, reliability, and data integrity than MySQL does.
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Linux performance basics
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I want to write about Cassandra performance tuning, but first I need to cover some basics: how to use vmstat, iostat, and top to understand what part of your system is the bottleneck -- not just for Cassandra but for any system.
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In praise of git’s index
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«I still run into people lambasting git for the concept of the index from time to time. It seems strange and superfluous to users of other VCSs – like a speed bump that serves no purpose. Why not just commit the changes in the working copy? This perception is understandable; when I first heard of git, back as a Subversion user, I was one of these people. How times and minds change.
Read more »Nmap 5.20 Released
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Happy new year, everyone. I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.20--our first stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150 significant improvements.
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Ten essential Python tips for beginners
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We've compiled ten essential Python tips especially for the new user, so without further ado, let's get started...
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Create a KVM-based virtual server in 3 steps
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In three relatively simple steps, you can create a virtual server on the Linux® KVM hypervisor host using full virtualization. The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is free, open source virtualization software for Linux that is based on hardware virtualization extensions (Intel VT-X and AMD-V) and a modified version of QEMU.
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Selenium Gets Some Sauce for Open Source Testing
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As increasing numbers of applications move online, the need for functional cross-browser testing continues to grow, which is good news for the open source Selenium project - a popular automated application testing tool with nearly 3 million downloads to date.
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install(Erl) ->
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"...Turns out that Erlang comes with its own Emacs mode. I guess the guys and gals over at Ericsson labs are all Emacs hackers too. (As an aside, I also found one post from a user who highly recommended the Erlang emacs mode, even to users of other editors. His advice ran something like "What you'll want to do is type $> vim ~/.emacs and edit that file to include your Erlang path".
Read more »Choosing a File System on Linux for Firebird
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If I could choose one word to speak about Linux it would be "choice". After choosing the distribution, you have to choose the file system to store your data. Today, we have mainly the choice between Etx2, Ext3, Ext4 and XFS. Let's see whether different file systems have an impact on performance when we use Firebird databases.
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GCC 4.4.3 Released
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GNU Emacs for Nokia N900
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"I've compiled GNU Emacs 23.1.1 for use on the Nokia N900 GNU mobile phone. There are two ways to install it: ..." — via John Sullivan —
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Bespin, Mozilla's editor for the cloud, gets a reboot
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Mozilla Labs has rolled out a major update to Bespin, an open source text editing engine that is built with standards-based Web technologies. The project has undergone a "reboot" with the aim of improving the ease with which it can be used and enhanced. Bespin 0.6, codenamed Ash, reflects the significant effort that went into the architectural overhaul.
Read more »VirtualBox's Little Secret: The Command Line
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Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI).
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