This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 11.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and php, (or Perl). It's one of the most popular web hosting platforms. If you're developing websites, it's good to have your own private development environment to use while you build and test your websites. This post will show you how to set up a web development environment on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot to use for testing.

This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on CentOS 6.0. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 11.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

A picture tells the worth of a thousand words they say. Ever wondered where the screenshots of programs included in your package manager in Debian or a Debian-based distro come from? This is the answer. Now, fire up your favorite applications and go make a few representative screenshots. Note the upload rules first. You might want to edit the images in GIMP to use indexed colors to make the files smaller.

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

The main theme of The Linux Week In Review 22 is a message to businesses: please respect the intelligence of your customers. Respect their ability to make decisions for themselves. Don’t allow companies to co-opt your products, no matter how tempting the money that they offer might be.

ModSecurity is sophisticated application firewall that monitors the content of ports 80 and 443. ModSecurity can protect you from hack attacks, zero day exploits, directory traversals, SQL injection and a lot of other bad stuff. This script will help you locate the blocks that ModSecurity is performing for you so you can evaluate.