Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It ca…

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Five days after the announcement of Voice and Video Chat service in Gmail for Debian-based Linux distributions, Google unveiled a Gmail phone call service for Windows, Mac, and Linux. more>>

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How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On
Debian Lenny

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL
using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for
hackers to sniff out passwords and d…

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The Linux community had two birthdays to celebrate recently. Debian GNU/Linux turned 17 on August 16 and openSUSE has been providing an excellent desktop Linux for five years. more>>

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In a study not likely to cause controversy, Christian Perrier has published the results of his analysis of the number of Debian developers per country. He ran the analysis last year for the fir…

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Installing A Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS And
MySQL Database Servers On Debian 5.0 With ISPConfig 3

This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3
multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS
ser…

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After several delays and many months behind schedule, Debian 6.0 appears to be one step closer to release. As of August 6, the testing branch is now frozen except for fixes and translation upda…

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In the tradition of Nimblex and SUSE Studio comes an alternative for those who prefer Debian. Debian Live Studio allows users to build their own Debian Live system with just a few mouse clicks….

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Installing A Web, Email And MySQL Database Cluster (Mirror) On Debian 5.0
With ISPConfig 3

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered Web, Email,
Database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and
load balancing o…

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Caching With Apache’s mod_cache On Debian Lenny

This article explains how you can cache your web site contents with
Apache’s mod_cache on Debian Lenny. If you have a
high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries on
each re…

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Install Imule On Debian Lenny

When I write these lines, the latest
version of Imule is 1.4.6. But … It relies on packages version
(libgcj10, libstdc++6) that are released with the unstable (sid)
version of Debian. So either you upgrade Debian to un…

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Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian
Lenny

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver
(with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian
Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-p…

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Considering how hackable the Nexus One is already, we can only imagine a whole new host of interesting things thanks to Ubuntu running on the device. [Max Lee] set his heart out on getting not just Ubuntu on the Nexus One, but also Debian, and he wrote a perfect install guide to help out those [...]

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Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Lenny (Virtual Users/Domains
With Postfix/MySQL)

This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard,
a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Lenny mailserver.

Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and m…

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Many Linux projects use Debian Linux as their code base for developing their distributions. Perhaps as many as 120 distributions are based on Debian and some include SimplyMepis, sidux, KNOPPIX…

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Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny

This tutorial describes how you can monitor your server with the tool
Bijk. Bijk creates
online 30 graphs about load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, NginX,
PostreSQL and others with alerts. Bijk …

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Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian
Lenny

This tutorial explains how you can generate statistics for your web
site with AWStats
and JAWStats on a
Debian Lenny web server. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful …

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Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

Amanda is an open source client/server
solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup
server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion
lists are located on the client.

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Installing Nginx With PHP 5.3 And PHP-FPM On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
(10.04) Without Compiling Anything

Since Apache is most of the time a memory hungy process, people
started to look for different ways to host their website. Apache is
clearly not the …

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Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny

This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver
with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly,
monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received…

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Using DPKG To Install OpenVZ On Debian

To use the DPKG package manager to install OpenVZ, all you need to do
is download the OpenVZ components, and let DPKG do the rest.

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Protect phpMyAdmin On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian)

With this small howto I explain how to protect your phpmyadmin
installation on your Debian server with ISPConfig3 against hack attempts
as much as possible. I assume that you already have an ISPC…

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Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE)

SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the
Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source
or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky s…

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Nginx Catch-All Host As Front End To Apache For ISPConfig 3 On
Debian Lenny
Apache has always been the web server of choice for me. It is a real
beast when it comes to resources usage specially in a resource limited
environment such as a VPS. I star…

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The Perfect Subversion Server – Debian Lenny [ISPConfig3]

Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is,
Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them,
over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data, or
examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many
people think of a version control system as a sort of “time machine”.
This guide will help you setup the subversion system, and integrate it
with your existing ISPConfig3 installation allowing you control over
disk usage, quota and other factors in a very familiar way. Perhaps one
day, somebody can use this process to create a plug in for ISPConfig3
that does all of this automatically.

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HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached “Built-In Server Side
Replication” On Debian Lenny

People probably know about memcached
and its high performance name-value based memory object cache
interface. Its main purpose is to provide an easy to use distributed
caching engine in a multinode environment. Have you ever wanted to let
memcached handle replication?

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How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny With Coloured Interface

rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system – contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the “screen” program provide you all the tools you need. This howto works for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and for Debian 5 Lenny. The difference is that commands that contain sudo must be executed as root.

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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny

This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Debian
Lenny server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at
unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier.
Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of
images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails.
FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that
have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding
unnecessary work.

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Processing 10000 Pictures Using Many Computers With Oropo
(Debian/Ubuntu)

Have you ever had a lot of data to process ?
In such a moment after a while of processing we realize that it will
take ages to complete.
It would be faster if we could use two or three or even more computers.
Let’s use some computers – you think it is a lot of configuration ? You
are wrong.
With Oropo it’s easy.
Let’s discuss a problem of processing large number of pictures.
First approach for solving this problem is to process pictures
sequentially on one computer.
Second approach is to process pictures parallelly on many computers.

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Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On
Debian Lenny

When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give
you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider’s backup
systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and ftplicity
to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server
can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider’s
remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us
to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in
any passwords).

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