The FreeNAS developers have released version 0.7.1 of their FreeBSD-based Network-attached storage (NAS) UNIX-like server operating system, updating a number of the included components
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Turn Tonido into a LAMP Server in a Jiffy
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While TonidoPlug is a great personal server as it is, you can teach it a few neat tricks. For example, how about turning your TonidoPlug into a fully-fledged server running the MySQL/PHP stack?
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Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 "Lyngen" Alpha 3
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It's been three weeks since Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 Alpha 2 was released (compared the usual two weeks, due to the tour of Chernobyl), but the third alpha release for this next release codenamed "Lyngen" is now available. Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 Alpha 3 is carrying mostly internal changes and improvements to pts-core, but there are some externally visible changes too.
Read more »Shiny, Happy Linux OS Terminals With Bashish
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In the mood for a bit more color in your life? Check out Bashish to try out themes for your terminal. I installed from source due to problems with the Debian repository; if doing this, note that you'll need to install the dialog package manually via apt-get. Once you've run ./configure; make; sudo make install, run bashish to get things set up properly.
Read more »The Unity Linux Build Server
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How does a distribution with 25 packagers maintain 8,600 packages in their repository and come back for more? Here's a look at the new Unity Linux Build Server (buildserv) which was recently designed to allow developers and packagers to point and click RPMs into a testing repository after building both x86 and x86_64 in a chroot...all done "automagically" in the background.
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jemalloc released as a standalone library
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jemalloc can be found in FreeBSD, NetBSD, Firefox and on Facebook's servers and now it is available as a stand alone memory allocator library
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A console spellchecker and dictionary
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Two things that I have failed to mention for quite a long time now — in fact, three things — are a dictionary and spellchecker for the console. If you write as much as I do, those two things are important, and not wisely left out.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Gets A New Catalyst Pre-Release
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A month ago the Canonical crew working on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS received an unreleased Catalyst 10.4 driver from AMD for inclusion with the Lucid Lynx since the publicly available ATI Catalyst drivers had not -- and to this day still do not -- support the X.Org Server 1.7 used by this next Ubuntu release.
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Typo3 allows remote command execution via PHP
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Typo3 installations that have not yet been fixed allow attackers to inject and execute PHP code from an external server
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Asus Eee Red Flag Linux Pre Installed
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How to benchmark, Stress, your Apache, Nginx or IIS server
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When you run a webserver, which could be Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd, you may want to know how it is performing, actually, usually any web server can handle a normal day of work, but what happens when the server under your administration gets, stumbled, or appears in Slashdot, or digg front pages, now a days even twitter may drive a lot of traffic to a webpage.
Read more »Ksplice: Upgrade / Patch Your Linux Kernel Without Reboots
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Generally, all Linux distributions needs a scheduled reboot once to stay up to date with important kernel security updates. RHN (or other distro vendors) provides Linux kernel security updates. You can apply kernel updates using yum command or apt-get command line options. After each upgrade you need to reboot the server.
Read more »Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions
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Vimscript is a mechanism for reshaping and extending the Vim editor. Scripting allows you to create new tools, simplify common tasks, and even redesign and replace existing editor features. This article (the first in a series) introduces the fundamental components of the Vimscript programming language: values, variables, expressions, statements, functions, and commands.
Read more »NagiosGrapher: HTTP Response Time
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NagiosGrapher can be used to create graphical presentations of your data that you collect with Nagios. This tutorial will provide you with some of the tricks to get it working and show graphs once you have it all installed. The response time for your web server is used as an illustration.
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R500 Mesa Is Still No Match To An Old Catalyst Driver
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Older ATI Catalyst drivers will not work on newer Linux distributions due to the proprietary driver not supporting a more recent Linux kernel or X Server version.
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