Ubuntu 12.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

June 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Ubuntu 12.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Ubuntu 12.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a
standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup,
every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol
and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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The Perfect Desktop – Pinguy OS 12.04

June 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The Perfect Desktop – Pinguy OS 12.04

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Pinguy OS 12.04
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04

June 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server.
It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP,
CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication,
on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and
much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an
Ubuntu 12.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL
support.

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Distribution Release: Pinguy OS 12.04

June 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Antoni Norman has announced the release of Pinguy OS 12.04, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with a customised GNOME Shell user interface: “Here is the final release of Pinguy OS 12.04 LTS. We have fully embraced GNOME Shell here and wanted a modern, updated site to go with….

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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04

June 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.04) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network. If you lose one server from replication1 and one from replication2,
the distributed volume continues to work. The client system (Ubuntu
12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local
filesystem.

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High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04

June 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 12.04) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Install Compiz On The Unity Desktop On Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

June 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Install Compiz On The Unity Desktop On Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

This tutorial shows how you can configure Compiz on an Ubuntu
Linux 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) Unity desktop (the system must have a
3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz
you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a
desktop cube on your desktop. Ubuntu (Unity 3D) must be selected as your desktop environment.

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LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta 1 Released [Ubuntu 12.04 PPA]

June 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
libreoffice 3.6.0

LibreOffice 3.6.0 beta 1 has been released with many new features and improvements, including contextual spacing for Writer, DOCX import improvements, support for importing Smart Art, label / business card wizard improvements, widescreen format for Impress slides and more.

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High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04 – Automatic File Replication Across Two Storage Servers

June 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04 – Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 12.04) that use GlusterFS.
Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and
files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The
client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage
as if it was a local filesystem.

GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several
peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or
TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system.
Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64
servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

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Running Shopware Community Edition (Version 3.5.6) On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.04

June 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Running Shopware Community Edition (Version 3.5.6) On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Shopware Community Edition (version 3.5.6) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 12.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP).
Shopware is a feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Community
Edition here which is free. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less
resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially
static files.

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Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server

June 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: “But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?” The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and distributions in a guest, just like virt-manager. This article shows how you can use it on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM server.
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Fedora 17: Beefier Than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

June 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Proper and extensive benchmarks of Fedora 17 against Ubuntu 12.04 LTS are forthcoming, but here’s a preview of some results…
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