The use of Linux in systems requiring high levels of security has been a frequent topic of controversy. Supporters have claimed that Linux's open source approach improves security due to exposure to an enormous, worldwide community of developers and users.
Read more »Just another way of browsing your files
The Zeitgeist guys created a fuse file system called zeitgeistfs. It is basically a calendar containing the files accessed at that specific date. So at the Akonadi meeting last weekend, having two hours to kill, I thought that should be doable with KIO. So two hours later (most of that time was spent twiddling with UDS entries) the timeline:/ KIO slave was up and running...
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Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide plus Fundamentals of Joomla! Video
I think this bundle (the book and DVD) was a limited offer and unfortunately, it's taken me just a bit too long get to my review to take advantage of the package. Nevertheless, the products are still available individually, and are both written and presented by Barrie North. But let's back up a bit.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On Ubuntu 9.04
This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner's New EQ Servers (Debian Lenny)
This tutorial shows how you can enable networking in Xen guests (domU) on Hetzner's new EQ servers. With the new EQ servers, you can get up to three additional IPs that are in the same subnet as the server's main IP. The problem is that these additional IPs are bound to the MAC address of the host system (dom0) - Hetzner's routers will dump IP packets if they come from an unknown MAC address.
Read more »LLVM 2.6 Released, Clang Is Now Production Ready
Version 2.6 of LLVM, the Low-Level Virtual Machine, has been released.
Read more »Symbian kernel Open Source release and Tanenbaum
There's a difference between releasing software under a FOSS license and running a successful FOSS project. The latter involves a sufficiently large community of developers, ways how they can contribute, ...
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CentOS rev's to version 5.4, tries on KVM
The CentOS project, which has apparently settled a dispute that threatened to lead to a fork, released CentOS 5.4. Reflecting changes made to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, CentOS 5.4 upgrades 266 packages, adds 27, and implements preview versions of the ext4 file-system and KVM hypervisor.
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Experimenting with Asterisk using a $20 SIP phone
If you'd like to play with Asterisk and need a cheap SIP phone, the VanAccess IP0020 can be obtained on eBay for as little as $20. But with no included manual and a SIP registration bug in the firmware, this phone can be tricky to configure. This article reviews the IP0020 and shows how to get it working with Asterisk.
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Browsers in Linux: They own your CPU (and do so in Windows and Mac, too)
I laugh — LAUGH! — when a tech journalist writes something to the effect of, "for lightweight tasks such as Web browsing," when you know, and I know, that there ain't nothing light about using present-day Web browser on present-day Web pages filled with Javascript, Flash and enough CSS to fill a book.
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Autonomously Finding Performance Regressions In The Linux Kernel
Last weekend a few Phoronix benchmarks were underway of the Linux 2.6.32-rc5 kernel when a very significant performance regression was spotted. This regression caused the PostgreSQL server to run at about 18% of the performance found in earlier kernel releases.
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CentOS5.4 is out! Upgrade from 5.3 to CentOS 5.4
Announced today the release of centos 5.4 , the new centos 5.4 fixed many bugs and added many new packages , let's see what new and how to upgrade to CentOS5.4 from 5.3
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PHP Aims for the Mainstream in Zend Server 5
The open source dynamic language PHP has been a mainstay of the Web application delivery landscape for the past decade, but only in recent years has it made serious inroads into enterprise IT development.
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NVIDIA Developer Talks Openly About Linux Support
In late August we started asking our readers for any questions they had for NVIDIA about Linux and this graphics company's support of open-source operating systems. Many thanks go out to Andy Ritger for taking the time to answer these questions as well as to NVIDIA's Technical Marketing Manager, Sean Kilbride, for supporting this Q&A.
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Useless Linux Terminal Commands
Not long ago, I have listed here some useful Linux terminal commands and those that I described as deadly. This time, I decided to gather some commands that I think have no practical use. I know it sounds interesting but you may disagree with me on some of the commands that I'll list here as you may find a few of them useful.
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