I just found out about an intriguing new project out of Russia -- Damn Small Solaris. Yes, it takes the Damn Small Linux concept (which is also spreading to another nascent distro, Damn Small BSD) and uses OpenSolaris as the base for a 60 MB live CD.
Read more »Cool distro of the day: Damn Small Solaris (yes, I said Solaris)
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Managing Services in Ubuntu, Part I: An Introduction to Runlevels
The subject of this post is all about learning runlevels, and how to manage services effectively, such as Apache, Squid, SSH, and so on, in Ubuntu.
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Hidden Linux : Monitor switch-off
My LCD monitor's tricky to switch on and off. Not only is its power button in an odd place, but it's also small, unlit, and flush-mounted. That means I invariably hit Brightness or Menu when I'm head away from my desk for an extended period. But, no worries. Linux to the rescue...
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Howto Determine the throughput of a pipe command
If you want to Determine the throughput of a pipe you need to use cpipe. Cpipe copies its standard input to its standard output while measuring the time it takes to read an input buffer and write an output buffer. Statistics of average throughput and the total amount of bytes copied are printed to the standard error output.
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Grml - new stable releases available: grml 1.1, grml64 0.2, grml[64]-medium 0.1
"We have new stable releases: grml 1.1 with codename Skunk is available. Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features..."
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Bug me not
Software always has bugs, and free software is no exception to this. When we think of free software, we think of software we can distribute, modify, study and of course, run. I don't spend a lot of my time studying or modifying free software, to be honest. There are lot of people who do this, and they're a lot smarter than me... well, most of them. Apparently, none of the people who write free software bug trackers ever actually use them to report a bug, or if they do, they have a very high tolerance for pain and annoyance.
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Dawn of the Linux dead
Over the last week we’ve been covering how the Linux multitasking scheduler works. Today it’s time to see what Linux has in common with popular horror flicks: this story has it all – zombies and zombie children, and a reaper.
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Get around that pesky firewall filtering with tsocks
I generally don’t have any issues knowing someone might be snooping on a bit of my traffic. However there are times you may want your traffic to be a bit more private. For example if your boss is a raging tyrant and your looking for a new job, and you know the sky would fall if he found out you emailed or happened to be on Career Builder or for that matter had even the slightest idea of abandoning him. Yes I am recounting something from my past, hey at least its distant past :). So if you find yourself in that situation read on for how to use tsocks and ssh as a simple proxy.
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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Mandriva 2008.0
In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Mandriva 2008.0 server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected.
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Apache daddy walks out on OpenSolaris
Apache Server co-founder Ray Fielding has resigned from Sun’s OpenSolaris Community saying he’s unhappy about the way Sun's behaving. The issue centers over who controls the OpenSolaris trademark - Sun or the governing community - with Fielding saying Sun wanted to have it's cake and eat it too.
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Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
This guide will walk you through the setup process for implementing NDT running under Ubuntu 7.10 server. For those unfamiliar with NDT, it is a network performance testing application. NDT will measure the throughput between your server and the desktops that you run the java client from.
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Parrot 0.5.3 "Way of the Parrot" released!
"On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.5.3 "Way of the Parrot." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.5.3 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html ..."
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Get rid of stowaway packages with GNU Stow
The installation instructions in most free software reviews aren't enough. If you decide a package sucks, how do you get rid of it? If a package rocks, how do you upgrade it? GNU Stow, a package manager for packages you compile and install yourself, provides an easy answer to both questions.
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Adding System Services with Upstart
We took a look at upstart more than half a year ago, and at that point it was only beginning to emerge. In Ubuntu 7.10 and beyond, we are beginning to see the result of what eventually will be a complete replacement for System V. Since we’ll be seeing more of upstart in future Ubuntu versions, in Fedora 9, and other distributions, let’s take a look at how to make and manage Upstart jobs.
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Just what makes Linux tick
Last time, we spoke about the Linux process scheduler and how it runs in the shadows swapping processes in and out of a running state so everyone gets a stab at the CPU. Today we’ll go over how the kernel keeps track of time and just what it means to do something in a jiffy.
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