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Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data
are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication
can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This…
Creating A Portable MySQL On CentOS 6 And Ubuntu 11.10 Linux From Sources
This tutorial shows how to create a portable MySQL installation on GNU/Linux. At the end of this guide you will obtain a portable MySQL installation on a target
directory with…
Installing Subversion And Configuring Access Through Different Protocols On Ubuntu 11.10
Subversion
(svn) is an open-source version control system (VCS), used in the
development of many software projects. This tutorial shows how to
install Subversi…
Tag Sound Files With Easytag (Linux Mint 12)
This tutorial is supposed to show you how to change your sound
files’ information like artist or title, also called tags, in a fast
way using Easytag. I am using Linux Mint 12 as an operating system, howev…
Canonical has unveiled a revolutionary concept called Ubuntu for Android. The idea is for Ubuntu to reside along side Android in your high-end mobile phones thus bringing a complete computing experience to the end user.
Has this stirred your interest …
The Perfect Media Server – Ubuntu 11.10 [Sabnzbd+/Sickbeard/Couch Potato/Headphones/Serviio]
This tutorial shows how to install Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and
all the programs needed for the perfect media server to download all
your media and str…
Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop
This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features
of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint’s new desktop
environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on
holding on to classic desig…
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.10
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install
Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5…
Icinga Configuration For Nginx On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10
Icinga is an
enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over
networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of
errors and recoveries and generate…
Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an
Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM)
and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI
implem…
Installing Opera Widgets On Ubuntu Unity Desktop (Ubuntu 11.10)
Opera Widgets, unlike most other browser plugins, can be downloaded
to serve as browser-independent desktop widgets. These are managed
through Opera Widget Manager, so the Opera process r…
How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network
This tutorial will show you how to reroute all traffic for a virtual
machine through the Tor network to ensure anonymity.
It assumes a standalone machi…
Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (prono…
Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine…
Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)
This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on
the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux.
Relinux is a fork of the recentl…
Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12
Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot
from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint
12 alongside Windows 7 – the procedure how…
VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1
on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage y…
How To Set Up Multi-Master Replication Using Tungsten And MySQL-Proxy For MySQL High Availability On Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
This tutorial is based on my experience setting up Tungsten Replicator and MySQL-Proxy for a client’s production setup.
BeOS was a much loved and highly advanced desktop operating system that ceased active development in 2001. ZevenOS is a Ubuntu 11.10 based system (with a bit of help from Xubuntu) that attempts …
Securing Your ISPConfig 3 Installation With A Free Class1 SSL Certificate From StartSSL
This tutorial shows how you can use a free Class1 SSL Certificate from StartSSL
to secure your ISPConfig 3 installation and get rid of self-signed
certificate wa…
Use Minitube To Watch YouTube Videos On Your Desktop (Linux Mint 11)
This article is about how to watch YouTube videos on your desktop
with a tool called Minitube.
Minitube is a piece of software with a nice GUI that lets you enter
keywords into a se…
Ubuntu 11.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as …
[Ricard Dias] wrote in to tell us about his guide for developing Linux applications on a Mac. He really enjoys the development environment provided by XCode, and it doesn’t take much to make it work as an all-in-one solution for Linux development. The real trick here is the use of SSH to access a Linux [...]
Running TYPO3 4.6 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how you can install and run a TYPO3 (version 4.6) web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx…
Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10)
This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE managers. I will install Enlightenment …
Configuring CAS On Ubuntu For Two-Factor Authentication With WiKID
Single sign-on is a great technology. Requiring users to login to
multiple applications is huge hassle, encourages password reuse and
simple passwords. Security needs to focus on …
Setting Up Unison File Synchronization Between Two Servers On Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Ubuntu 11.10 servers with Unison.
Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, but the big
diff…
Finding Out Package Dependencies With apt-rdepends On Debian/Ubuntu
Sometimes you need to find out all the dependencies of a package.
This tutorial explains how to use apt-rdepends to recursively list all
dependencies of a Debian/Ubuntu package.
Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 12 (GNOME Classic)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint
12 Lisa desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful…
Running Joomla 1.7 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Joomla 1.7 web site
on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed
instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pron…
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