Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features. Note: This is still an alpha release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in October 2007.
Read more »Interoperability Without Patent Agreements. Really.
I got the word yesterday that Zenoss, which has a nifty network and server management tool (cleverly named Zenoss Core), was planning to announce the launch of its new Zenoss Enterprise product today.
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Set Up OpenLDAP On Fedora 7
This document describes how to set up OpenLDAP on Fedora 7. OpenLDAP is a directory server based on the LDAP protocol, that same protocol MS Active Directory is based on. OpenLDAP is an open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
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Securing your Linux server with iptables
Everyone in the IT industry is concerned with security, especially Linux administrators. Many Linux distributions come with several services that you may not use or ever need, but they're running on your server anyways. This can cause many security threats.
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Separate form and function in PHP applications with Smarty
The ease of mixing PHP and other Web-page markup leads to a morass of program logic, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript, making maintenance a hair-pulling task. The Smarty template engine separates form from function.
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Industrial-strength Linux lockdown, Part 2: Executing only signed binaries
For technical and non-technical users alike, maintaining a large installed base of Linux machines can be a harrowing experience for an administrator. Technical users take advantage of Linux®'s extreme configurability to change everything to their liking, while non-technical users running amok within their own file systems.
Read more »Open source software on the Nintendo DS (Lite)
The Nintendo DS is an excellent gaming device, but that's not all you can do with it. The machine's "hackability" makes the Nintendo DS a great platform for running open source software and even Linux, if you want to run a slimmed down version of Linux.
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Linux: 2.6.23 Stability
In response to another merge request, Andrew Morton retorted, "argh. I have a backlog of maybe 300 patches here which I am cheerfully ignoring while concentrating on preventing 2.6.23 from being less of a disaster than it has already been."
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Ready, steady... Sprint! Creating open-source ECM
Holding focused meetings, also known as "sprints," over several days to develop, test and document software, is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software.
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Video tip from RHCEs: Use Linux and OpenVPN to create a secure tunnel
We bring the advice of experts straight from San Diego to your desktop.
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Application-wise network filtering on Linux?
Recently I was asked if Linux supports application-wise network filters. Despite the debatable sense behind such a function I was interested in the technical possibilities and current implementations. It turned out that there is no currently active project atm.
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Kernel Update Breaks Ubuntu?
If you are suffering a mouth breathing moment like I did today, happen to be using Ubuntu Edgy and found that after an update, that your GUI has suddenly left the building - don’t panic. Just try this.
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Manage Apache Pluto within Geronimo
Portal and portlet technology development is a hot skill to have, especially when developing Web 2.0-enabled applications. The Apache Pluto project is the reference implementation of the Java™ Portlet Specification, which was originally created through the Java Community Process and Java Specification Request (JSR) 168.
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Linux thin clients support virtualization
Igel is readying Linux-based thin clients capable of hosting VMware virtual machines. The company will ship Linux-based thin client firmware next week that adds support for VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and optionally includes Leostream's VDI Connection Broker.
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Debian Software RAID Setup
Over the past few years space on my server would increase based on the deals found on sites like Slickdeals. After some time this lead to a mishmash of two PATAs and one SATA at 120Gb, 160Gb, and 200Gb respectively on my personal media server. Glad as I was to have all this space it started to become disk management issue since I wanted the bulk of the space consolidated for media.
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