This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.3 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
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Mako on Landini's paper on Open Source and Free Software
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Landini suggest a concept "cultural subsidy". The Open Source rhetoric suggests software to people because it's of higher quality than proprietary software. But how did it ever became so? Because the Free Software advocates worked hard to make it so!
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Whither now, OpenIndiana?
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With an open source project like OI, contributors come and go all the time, but Alasdair’s reasons for quitting paint a very dark picture for the future of the project, certainly not a good advertisement for OI. From his email of resignation Alasdair sees the project as worthless and as good as dead, writing that:
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How to Select Linux Compatible Wireless Network Cards
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If you are buying a new computer, it is best to select one with a wireless component that is designed for free software like Linux. A card designed for free software gives you improved support. Free software compatible devices also work out of the box.
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Preview of ROSA Desktop 2012
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The alpha version of what will become ROSA Desktop 2012 has been made available for download. It comes about a week later than planned, but that is no big deal. The most important thing is that it is here. Let the bug hunting begin!
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 17
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
Read more »Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0 is released
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The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of:
Lazarus 1.0
At this important stage the current team would like to thank all the past and current people who were involved in getting us here.
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EFF's 2012 Pioneer Awards
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of its 2012 Pioneer Awards: hardware hacker Andrew (bunnie) Huang, anti-ACTA activist Jérémie Zimmermann, and the Tor Project – the organization behind the groundbreaking anonymity tool Tor. September 20 at Project One Gallery in San Francisco.
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Community: Taking the Next Step Forward
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Sean Tilley of the Diaspora Project explains a strategy to move over to an Open Governance model, and how it can affect community developers in a positive and empowering way.
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Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.3 (x86_64) (Paravirtualization & Hardware Virtualization)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 4.1.x) on a CentOS 6.3 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).
Read more »Postfix: SMTP Options with Webmin
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Webmin can be used to create and edit mail aliases which can be used to send mail to individuals, groups, lists or even applications. Webmin is a web based front end used for monitoring Linux servers which have no GUI.
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Every distribution should have its own Kapudan
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One of those utilities, Kaptan, was one I suggested long ago that every distribution should have. Kaptan’s main purpose was to offer users a means of customizing their installation of Pardus. It was not perfect, but it is better than any similar tool on any other distribution.
Read more »Time saving automation of Ubuntu with cuttlefish
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CuttleFish is an Interesting application for ubuntu users , if you want to set a trigger and automate tasks based on the result of a prior action.
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Squeeze
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Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd 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.
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Chakra Linux 2012.08 preview
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Sadly, even this latest release does not ship with a graphical package manager. All package management tasks have to be accomplished from the command line. Aside from that, I think this release has a lot of goodies to offer, and is what a detailed review.
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