Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Preise Pangolin has been released and many of you have already upgraded or plan on upgrading, so I've made yet another post that you'll hopefully find useful, with things that you may want to tweak, fix or install in Ubuntu 12.04.
Read more »Things To Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how to do data striping across four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »Manual disk partitioning guide for Linux Mint Debian
Though the default disk partitioning scheme works, you may find yourself in a situation that requires creating partitions manually. At such times, you need to have a good knowledge of disks and disk partitions in Linux to create the partitions you need.
If you did not know how already, this tutorial gives you a step-by-step guide on how to proceed.
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The 16 Linux Shell Commands Every Desktop Linux User Should Know
True, you don't NEED to know Linux shell commands these days; you can get along just fine with a GUI interface. But the command-line tools can still come in darned handy sometimes. Here’s the commands with which Linux desktop users should be most familiar, and guidelines about when to use them.
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Newscoop 4, open source CMS for news released
Sourcefabric today announced the launch of Newscoop 4, an open source content management system for news, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Developed and used by news organisations like Switzerland’s TagesWoche, ElPeriódico de Guatemala and Yemen Times, Newscoop 4 aims to help independent news organisations manage online publications, enrich content and find new audiences.
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THE ‘TUBE’ OPEN MOVIE PROJECT
The Tube Open Movie is a new experiment, this time in distributed collaboration — a love letter to free software and open culture that marks their convergence with independent filmmaking. The finished film and its mountain of data assets will be released under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
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Gameplay 1.2, open source game development framework, released
Gameplay 1.2, a cross-platform, C++ game framework designed for learning and writing mobile and desktop games, has been released. Gameplay is an open source project hosted on Github and developed by Sean Paul and Steve Grenier, both graphics and game developers at Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry® smartphone and PlayBook tablet computer.
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Maintaining Remote Web Sites With sitecopy (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)
sitecopy is a tool for copying locally stored web sites to a remote web server (using FTP or WebDAV). It helps you to keep the remote site synchronized with your local copy by uploading modified local files and deleting remote files that have been deleted on the local computer.
Read more »Getting Help With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
This coming Thursday marks the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Many users will download Ubuntu, try it and give up because of some small technical problem. Here is a list of tutorials and resources for Ubuntu beginners that I have found to be useful.
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How programmers can easily choose strong passwords
Choosing a password is always a trade-off between security and usability. Programmers can shift this compromise thanks to some qualities of their work. The idea is to use lines of code as passwords.
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Chakra Archimedes-2012.04 review
Aside from the usual kernel and software updates or upgrades, there is very little difference between Chakra Archimedes-2012.04 and Chakra Archimedes-2012.02. So this review will not be as comprehensive as the one published in February, but for those new to Chakra, here are the major features of this distribution:
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Monitoring OSX and Linux with Nagios and SNMP
OSX is somewhat unique both in the fact that this is not a common server which is monitored and also your actually working with two operating systems, FreeBSD under the hood and OSX built on top. However, these examples could also be used for Linux distros with a few modifications.
Read more »Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)
This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive. Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern browsers. Features include an SQL editor with syntax highlighting and built-in profiling of SQL queries.
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How to install Takeoff Launcher on Kubuntu 12.04
Published articles on this subject include how to compile and install it on Linux Mint 12 KDE and how to install it on Fedora 16 KDE. In this article, the steps required to replace Kickoff menu with Takeoff Launcher on Kubuntu 12.04, are presented in an easy to follow manner.
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Testing Codeigniter with Firebird
I’ve been using Codeigniter as my development platform and framework of choice since last year. Being a ten year PHP developer, Codeigner was a refreshing way of coding web apps with PHP.
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