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Linux and Free Software: 5 tips for Windows users

12-Dec-08

The large movement of users knowing and having contact with Linux for the first time creates a real whirlwind of feelings in users. The main excitement of whom are former Windows users are dissatisfied and despair and even satisfaction for those users more open to observers and changes of [...]


Installing packages in graphics mode in Ubuntu

27-Sep-08

The installation of packages and applications on Linux has left something to be a very complicated time. With the wide popularization of the Desktop Linux distributions install applications on your operating system is a task junk. The wide range of applications found ready to install (more than 20,000 in ubuntu, debian and [...]


Comparison of Linux Distros for LAMP Server - Results

20-Sep-08

To achieve an effective comparison between the distributions were established some "criteria of comparison" that were points of agreement with the performance of each distribution. Each criterion has a weight according to their importance against the background comparative and other situations inherent in the use of a system [...]


Sharing disks with ATA over Ethernet on Debian

17-Sep-08

Share file when USA Linux is not a difficult task, but no doubt the various options may embarrass the administrator's time to make a correct choice. Some months ago I know the technology AoE (ATA over Ethernet) [1], a lightweight protocol that enabled by loading a kernel module, allows [...]


Comparison of Linux Distros for LAMP Server - Implementation

14-Sep-08

Currently the major distributions have a very similar facility, so there will be a detailed description of each step to not make the full text or tiring. These notes of implementation will focus only on details most relevant to the context proposed. The procedures for installation were [...]


Comparison of Linux Distros in LAMP Server - Background

05-Sep-08

LAMP is a nickname used to describe a Linux Server with Apache to support the MySQL database and the PHP language (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP, a server LAMP can also include the languages Perl or Python, and PHP the most popular. ). This combination is extremely powerful and successful. Apache is the HTTP server but [...]


Comparison of Linux Distros for LAMP Server - Presentation

30-Aug-08

In this series present the implementation and outcome of a comparison test between Linux distributions. This comparison takes into account the installation and configuration of a Linux server minimum, with no graphical interface and support for Apache, PHP and MySQL, and use of virtual domains in Apache. Distributions [...]


Freeing SNMP for remote collections in Ubuntu / Debian

27-Jul-08

The SNMP is very important for monitoring and managing any network. If you want to use any software for monitoring equipment and network servers using the SNMP is essential. But to use SNMP to collect a small remote is necessary change in the default protocol [...]


How to limit the rate of download apt in Ubuntu / Debian and company

12-Jul-08

USA Linux and many who use the network, especially Internet, knows the great efficiency of Linux in the use of bandwidth for data traffic. This is very interesting when we make any comparison, for example choosing a large file any Time and time to download this file in Linux and Windows, you will [...]


Creating a new super user in PostgreSQL

01-Jul-08

The administration of PostgreSQL [1] requires some care with security. One of them is to allow only certain users to connect and from certain hosts on the network. Well today I will explain what I do to create a new super user in PostgreSQL when I do a new installation on Debian systems. This procedure is usually [...]


Debian-BR-CDD is now BrDesktop.org, long life to Debian!

30-Mar-08

As I did not know! In a post on the forum I learned linux-mg.org the return of distro that did very very successful and helped the spread of Linux in Brazil. The Debian-BR-CDD is starting a custom distro of Debian official. "A custom Debian distribution (Custom Debian Distribution - [...]


Protengendo the HTTP with antivirus - clamav HAVP + + Squid

24-Feb-08

In the previous post in this series explained how to install the package HAVP directly from the official Debian archive. Commented on the dependencies of clamav, but I forgot to say that we essentially only the packages (basic) clamav, clamav-freshclam and libclamav3, and the equipment package clamav-daemon. This [...]


Protengendo the HTTP with antivirus - HAVP in Debian "etch"

11-Feb-08

Recently deploy a solution of virus in Debian etch to share internet with Squid integrating it with HAVP + clamav. The HAVP (HTTP Anti Virus Proxy) is an HTTP proxy, antivirus and the solution was chosen because it seemed the most simple and easy to integrate. But the problem is that in the official repositories of Debian [...]


Volatile: clamav and Spamassassin updated in Debian 4.0 "etch"

04-Feb-08

Debian is recognized for its stability and its innovations in terms of Linux distributions. It is no coincidence that Debian is the basis for more than 180 distros (including derivatives as Kurumin, Knoppix and Ubuntu), or more than half of all distros listed on the site DistroWatch.com. All this popularity and strength were [.. .]