There are default mailbox sizes which may lead to mail delivery failure when you go beyond the defaults. In order to avoid problems you need to understand the difference between mailboxes and virtual_mailboxes as well as know the default sizes and how to adjust them. Here is the error that you want to avoid:
Read more »Postfix Mail Server: Managing Mailbox Size
- Login to post comments
How Important Is The Wayland Display Server?
Last November we detailed the Wayland Display Server, which came about as a lightweight alternative to the X.Org Server and leveraged the latest Linux graphics technologies (primarily kernel mode-setting), and is designed elegantly with the rendering and compositing all being done by Wayland.
Read more »Easy installation of LASP (Linux, Apache, SQLite and PHP) on Ubuntu
If you think about learning how to create dynamic database-driven web sites, the simplest way is to start with PHP and SQLite. Ubuntu is a wonderful Linux distribution that makes installation of this software extremely easy.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Returning Values from Bash Functions
Bash functions, unlike functions in most programming languages do not allow you to return a value to the caller. When a bash function ends its return value is its status: zero for success, non-zero for failure. To return values, you can set a global variable with the result, or use command substitution, or you can pass in the name of a variable to use as the result variable.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)
This tutorial shows how you can limit the CPU usage of a process with the tool cpulimit on Debian/Ubuntu. cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time).
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
[Coming November 2009] Autotools: A Developer's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
"The GNU Autotools (the GNU Build System) is a group of utilities designed to make it easy for developers to create software that is portable across many Unix-like operating systems. Unfortunately, most Autotools documentation is merely reference material, and a serious guide to the tools is needed.
Read more »Hey, check out my package!
There are many, many Linux distributions floating around the internet tubes waiting to be downloaded for your computing pleasure. One thing they all have in common is some form of package management system.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Kudos To Peter Hutterer With X.Org 7.5
X.Org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 will be arriving months late once it's released after failing to meet the original April release schedule and then failed twice with two more proposed releases during the summer. However, the latest release schedule, which puts the final release in late September or so, might actually work out this time -- in good part thanks to Peter Hutterer.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
The Next Round: The new features of Linux 2.6.31
The latest version of Linux offers a whole host of new features – for example a USB 3.0 infrastructure, drivers for the Sound Blaster X-Fi, KMS support for Radeon chips and improved versions of Btrfs and Ext4. As is traditional with new Linux versions in the main development branch, however, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Read more »- Login to post comments
GNU Mailutils: Version 2.1 "Ten Years Later"
"GNU Mailutils Version 2.1 "Ten Years Later" is available for download from [...] Ten years ago, on 10 September 1999, the very first commit to the Mailutils repository was made. Today, our team is proud to present this release, a mature and well established mail handling framework..."
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Free Software Supporter #18 announces some recent GNU software releases
"Free Software Supporter is a newsletter run by the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and in it they have a section announcing a few software releases from the GNU project. However, they do not seem to provide any description of the projects aside from their name and version.
Read more »Replacing X11
MicroXwin is a kernel module Xlib compatible graphics system, but it isn't client/server oriented and is not network oriented. It is binary compatible but uses only 1 to 2 mb of RAM.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Ingo Molnar Tests New BF Scheduler
Kernel developer Ingo Molnar has done a benchmark test to compare his Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) with the recently released BFS from Australian Con Kolivas.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
Firebird Database 2.1.3 is Released
Firebird 2.1.3 is a patch release addressing several bugs that have surfaced since the original v.2.1 and the v.2.1.2 sub-release some months ago.
This patch release includes no new functionality but the following issues should be noted
Read more »- Login to post comments
Why PHP Doesn’t Suck
From its original design as a way to create dynamic web pages, PHP has evolved into a language (and supporting environment) that is particularly well suited to rapidly developing web-scale applications. Examples of these include Facebook and Wikipedia.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments