Developers from Debian and Ubuntu met and discussed ways to improve boot performance at Canonical’s London headquarters.

July 2nd, 2009 by cj2003

FrostWire is an open-source, free Java-based peer-to-peer client with support for the BitTorrent protocol, skins and iTunes. The latest release, 4.18.0, contains many improvements, bug fixes and several changes.

July 2nd, 2009 by cj2003

As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (”Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.

July 2nd, 2009 by cj2003

In this tutorial we’ll cover many topics that will allow you to build your own custom firewall machine from scratch using standard PC hardware and the Linux operating system. I’ll present everything from the basic topics of firewalls, DHCP, and DNS, up to advanced features such as VPN and IDS.

July 1st, 2009 by cj2003

I use flexbackup to run my tape backup and on the older Debian installation, flexbackup would correctly set the block size of the tape and run the backup. On the latest installation, running flexbackup gave an error message…

July 1st, 2009 by cj2003

hus, free applications do not normally implement “features” which allow their users to do less. One might think that the consensus against “antifeatures” in free software is nearly universal, but, as the case of the okular PDF reader in Debian shows, there are still exceptions.

July 1st, 2009 by cj2003

GNBD is some kind of alternative to iSCSI and to a lower extent to sshfs or other filesharing system (NFS, Samba, etc.). Unlike iSCSI, there’s no authentication or such, I invite you to read the documentation to learn more about GNBD.

July 1st, 2009 by cj2003

Damn Small Linux, as its name says, is an extremely small linux distribution.It will take around 51MB disk space.We can port the DSL just like that in a pen drive.Also we can store the worked files in the usb pen drive itself. It is just like we have a fuly installed computer in hand in [...]

June 30th, 2009 by cj2003

With the laptop finally showing its age I decided to go with Debian, first Etch but soon enough Lenny was released so I upgraded to it and installing some additional software and such.

June 30th, 2009 by cj2003

Instead of a review of what everyone already knows, this week I thought we’d take a look at how the newly released Xubuntu 9.04 compares to Debian Lenny with an Xfce desktop.

June 30th, 2009 by cj2003

Lately, the typical flamewars that consume the Debian mailing lists have spilled over into the Linux subreddit. Like a moth to a flame, I am attracted to such flamewars, simply because I find them amusing for brief periods of time. No, they don’t provide information–flamewars are utterly devoid of such things.

June 30th, 2009 by cj2003

I’m currently working on rebuilding a server on a project, and went to hit the tab key to auto-complete1, when I was presented a delightful error…

June 29th, 2009 by cj2003

The founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, has termed Debian’s decision to include Mono as part of its default desktop task a move that “leads the community in a risky direction.”

June 29th, 2009 by cj2003

“We would do it again,” said the vice director of the Munich project, Florian Schießl. Pictures of penguins, the Linux mascot, adorn the walls of the Munich city IT department. By mid-2012, at the latest, 80 percent of the 14,000 computers in the city administration will be moved to be Linux

June 29th, 2009 by cj2003

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated – The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename “lenny”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with
a few adjustment to serious problems.

June 28th, 2009 by cj2003

Monit is a system monitoring utility which allows an admin to easily monitor files, processes, directories, or devices on your Debian system. It can also be used for automatic maintenance/repairs – by executing particular commands when errors arise.

June 28th, 2009 by cj2003

There are two main reasons for using a separate server for static files. The first is to offload the main server, e.g. Apache with mod_php, letting it only handle the dynamic requests. The second is to allow browsers to download files in parallel and without the overhead of cookies etc.

June 28th, 2009 by cj2003

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire REVO for the purposes of a Development server that I can keep running 24/7 without the fear of racking up electricity bills. The trouble is, it has no cd-rom, so I set about looking to install from a USB disk.

June 28th, 2009 by cj2003

Debian GNU/Linux was first announced in 1993. Its founder, Ian Murdock, envisaged the creation of a completely non-commercial project developed by hundreds of volunteer developers in their spare time. With sceptics far outnumbering optimists at the time, it was destined to disintegrate and collapse, but the reality was very different.

June 28th, 2009 by cj2003

On this post I will be discussing howto install Damn Small Linux on your Hard Disk, since DSL is meant to be run as live CD you will need to prepare your disk using fdisk or cfdisk before you will be able to install Damn Small Linux now lets begin.

June 25th, 2009 by cj2003

This tutorial shows how you can set up journaled quota on a Debian Lenny system. With journaled quota, you don’t need to run quotacheck after an unclean shutdown. Journaled quota works on ext3 and ext4 file systems.

June 25th, 2009 by cj2003

Read on to learn how to install Ruby Enterprise, Phusion Passenger and El Dorado from scratch in a sort of “one-off” setting where you’ve got one server and you want it to run one site.

June 25th, 2009 by cj2003

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Debian Lenny) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS.

June 24th, 2009 by cj2003

So, I decided to raise the topic of our New Maintainer process again. To summarize it, our process is the following….

June 24th, 2009 by cj2003

Given the regular questions appearing on the forum about using Debian/Ubuntu with EC2 I thought it might be a useful exercise to post a complete HOWTO should people wish to roll their own AMI rather than use my public one.

June 23rd, 2009 by cj2003

This article outlines some updated steps to running progeCAD without buying a Windows license (although some free libraries will be needed). Understand that progeCAD is at this time not officially supported on Linux, either using Parallels or WINE emulation layer

June 23rd, 2009 by cj2003

DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. It was at first just a personal tool/toy.

June 22nd, 2009 by cj2003

Approx is like the equivalent of Microsoft’s WSUS or SUS on a Debian system. It’s a proxy service that runs on a server to save on bandwidth and time for installing programs and updates.

June 22nd, 2009 by cj2003

DSA is currently playing around with a patched version of bind9 (based on a patch we received from kernel.org people) to implement GeoDNS for security.debian.org.

June 22nd, 2009 by cj2003

Very simple, and hinted at in the Debian APT HOWTO. I think I used to use a different package for this, but I think I like the simplicity of this method better.

June 21st, 2009 by cj2003