This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server on Debian Lenny. A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc.
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FTP Server Course
FTP, file transfer protocol, is widely used on the Internet for transferring files. Though FTP has a terrible security record it continues to be very popular, mainly because it is so simple to setup and use. This course is designed to take you step by step through the proper setup of a FTP Server on CentOS.
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Introducing RDF for GNU Licenses
I'm happy to announce that Resource Description Framework (RDF) metadata now accompanies all of the GNU licenses. This provides a great new tool that developers can use to raise awareness about the free software license they use for their work, and that users can use to find the software they're looking for.
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High-Availability Load Balancer With HAProxy/Keepalived On Debian Lenny
This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and keepalived on Debian Lenny. The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same content.
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Introducing KDE 4 plasmoids
KDE 4 includes many exciting new technologies, including Plasma, a feature that forms the desktop shell of KDE 4. See how to write simple Plasma applets (known as plasmoids) to greatly improve the desktop experience and how to turn a plasmoid into a simple memory monitor.
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Benchmarks: gtk+ engines revisited
Six months ago I posted some benchmarks of popular gtk+ engines. It's time to revisit those benchmarks and test the engines again, this time using FOSS drivers for my new hardware.
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New release model for MySQL
The MySQL developers have presented a new release model for the development of the open source database.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.30
Linus Torvalds announced the release of the 2.6.30 Linux kernel version.
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Emacs Lisp revived
"Hi all, I finally started real work on implementing the elisp compiler and just pushed a first start-off code to branch elisp. It is however not yet usable for anything, but also already has some very few things done..."
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Introducing Gloss
Everyone knows Pygame is a super-fast way to produce cross-platform games. But its one major flaw is that it's very slow to do simple operations such as scaling, rotating and recoloring. In fact, even making extensive use of transparency can be a bit slow, so I've produced a new graphics toolkit that makes all those things extremely fast, and I've called it Gloss.
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High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny
This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Lenny) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Debian Lenny as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.
Read more »Working With Multiple Database Using Emacs
"In my experience it is rare that you will work with a single database. even if you have data in only one region, you will hopefully at least have a QA database. Therefore to be a serious tool, you need to have some way of making it easy to query multiple databases. Can we extend sql-mode or db-mode to do what we need?
Read more »Linux Driver Project Status Report as of June 2009
This is a status report for the Linux Driver Project as of June 2009, describing what has happened in the past year of work.
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Nagios configuration Tools (Web frontends or GUI)
Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It's stable, scalable, supported, and extensible.
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A Domain-Specific Language to Let Groovy Go Parallel
Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform. It runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It supports Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). Last week, GParallelizer 0.7 release added exciting intuitive ways to handle tasks, actors and message. Great news for the Groovy community in order to go parallel.
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