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Running LAMP Applications Using Nginx
While playing with WordPress on nginx for my last post, I discovered that a majority of the how-tos out there on running PHP/MySQL applications using nginx left a bit to desired. Here’s the steps that I took to get my application (WordPress, sp...
Linux Vendors: United They Will Stand?
Ever since reading OStatic’s article about how Linux netbook returns really aren’t the problem with Linux market share, I can’t seem to quite get over the conclusion. They make an excellent point. Microsoft has lots of money and can...
2X App Server Client on 64-bit Ubuntu
Today I got to replace my aging Ubuntu desktop with a new machine. We’ve been using 2X for some time to run Windows apps on our Macs and I was pumped a few months ago to figure out that they had packaged a new version of their client for Ubuntu...
More Tab Complete Awesomeness on Ubuntu 9.04
It’s a slightly older post, but after I read Workswithu’s report on the four features that they believed set Ubuntu apart, I had to agree whole-heartedly with the fourth one regarding implementation of auto-complete on the shell. As I was...
Zenoss SSH Troubles on Ubuntu 8.04
Fresh off a stack installer of Zenoss Core on Ubuntu 8.04, I had a little trouble with SSHing to other hosts using the Zenoss user. When I tried to SSH, I got a this error: ssh: /usr/local/zenoss/common/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information ...
Five Reasons I Would Switch (Exclusively) to Linux
Yesterday I took a look at some of the applications that I’d miss if I decided to switch away from Mac OS X to using Linux exclusively. I felt that wasn’t quite fair as there are some really compelling reasons to switch to Linux and I rea...
Installing VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu 8.04
Tonight I wanted to play with a couple of Linux distros on my desktop and I decided to install VirtualBox since it’s free and already has packages in Ubuntu for it. That turned into a much longer process than I thought, but not too bad. There&#...
SSH (and tunnel) In One Click of a Mouse
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this tool before. Worse yet, I can’t believe how much time I must have wasted SSH’ing to hosts. Tonight I discovered SSHMenu for Gnome. I’m a systems administrator on a mostly Linux networ...
What Canonical Is Doing Right To Boost Ubuntu Market Share
No, this isn’t one of those “year of the Linux desktop” posts. Linux on the desktop as well as the community have a long ways to go in usability as well as other issues before it’s ready for mainstream. It’s not that I d...
Umounting NFS Share After Deletion on the ‘Server Side’
Since I like to be an example to others of what not to do, I thought I’d share my fun today. Today I was doing a little cleanup on our systems and removed an empty directory that had been mounted by another system via NFS. (HINT: if you’r...
Canonical Launches Online Sync Service
Canonical has launched a beta service called Ubuntu One which will allow Ubuntu users to keep files in sync across the Internet as well as gain access to their files on other computers via a web interface. The service gives the user 2GB of online sto...
System76’s Ubuntu Netbook Has Arrived
A few weeks ago I commented on System76’s report that their sales were up 61% in Q1 and also mentioned that they were working on a netbook. Well, their netbook has arrived and is one sweet lookin’ little machine. What sets this netbook ap...
Sharing Printer from Ubuntu to Mac OS X
Quite often we read about how small things are so much more complicated on Linux than on Windows. I set out on a journey today to add a printer via USB to my Ubuntu desktop and share it out to my MacBook at my new apartment. If there’s one thin...
Goodbye Windows Small Business Server, Hello eBox
Microsoft Small Business server finally has a competitor. I’ve been looking at eBox for a few years now, just waiting for it to go production. I missed the announcement, but it finally hit version 1.0 in late March. The software is a central ma...
Ubuntu-based PC Maker Reports Huge Growth
As a bright spot in our doom-and-gloom economic news, Ubuntu-based PC maker System76 reported 61% growth in PC sales for Q1 of 2009 over Q1 of last year. And, while other manufacturers are preparing themselves for the launch of Windows 7, System76 is...
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Released
The beta for the next version of Ubuntu, 9.04 was released today. Version 9.04 alpha 1 was released in November of 2008 and has gone through 6 alphas and now in the beta phase of the release. This release focuses mostly on boot speed and the integrat...
Slow Apache Starts on Ubuntu
An Apache server that I was working with was having an issue starting in a reasonable amount of time. This particular server was running on Ubuntu 8.04 on top of VMware ESX 3.5. The service would start eventually, but would hang for a fairly signific...
Could Google Be Linux’s Ticket to the Desktop Market?
Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt let us know that there’s a good chance that Google would be entering the netbook market soon. We’ve already seen Google’s Android OS on its new smartphone and have seen a working model on a netbook...
Ubuntu 9.10 Server to Focus on Cloud Computing
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu foundation, announced today the plans for Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. The server version will focus on developments both in the Amazon EC2 cloud as well as allowing users to build their own ela...
HP Now Supporting Ubuntu on Its Servers
HP has announced that it will be partnering with Canonical, the commercial backers of Ubuntu, to provide certification and support for Ubuntu on its servers. HP already offers Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux on their servers, but will now be offeri...
Ubuntu Takes Over French Assembly
A blog entry at the NY Times site is reporting that the French National Assembly has switched its computers from Windows to Ubuntu and is urging other European countries to do the same. The VP of the Assembly, Rudy Salles has reported the reasons wer...
Ubuntu Offers “Official” AMI’s on EC2
Ubuntu is now offering images of its Ubuntu Server operating system to EC2 users. The program is still in beta, but allows EC2 users to launch “official” images of the operating system created by Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu) running...
Mainstream Media Blames Ubuntu for Problems in School, Caught in Fanboy Cross-Fire
Whether it was a stunt to boost traffic to their website, or legitimately not knowing the can of worms they were opening, a tv station in Madison, WI ran a story about a girl who ordered a computer from Dell with Ubuntu. The short version goes someth...
Ubuntu: So Easy a 10 Year-Old Can Do It
Okay, this “Linux is hard” FUD is driving me insane. I can’t take seeing articles like this anymore. The author claims to want to give Linux a try but clearly wants the experiment to fail. The author tries to pick a distro for the e...
Canonical Announces ARM Support
Canonical has announced that it will be adding ARM support to its mainstream desktop operating system. Ubuntu support for ARM will begin with version 9.04 which will be released in April of 2009. ARM is the architecture of choice for most mobile devi...
Parallels 4 vs. VMware Fusion 2
Parallels recently released version 4 of their desktop virtualization software promising 50% better performance over the old version. I have used both VMware on Linux and Parallels on Mac for some time and decided to put them to test on the same sys...
VMware Server 2 on Ubuntu 8.10
Apparently all the bugs with running VMware on Ubuntu 8.04 have either been worked out on the VMware side or the Ubuntu side with 8.10. I installed today using the Ubuntu 8.10 i386 desktop version with just a few prerequisites to install: sudo apt-ge...
Ubuntu 8.10 To Be Released Today
Ubuntu 8.10 is scheduled for release later today. The new version builds on previous releases with a few new features. Probably the most notable on the server side of things is the new virtual machine builder that now comes with the JeOS (Just enough...
Wikipedia Switches to Ubuntu
Probably one of the most popular research sites on the web is in the midst of a switch to one of the largest growing Linux distributions. Wikipedia will be completing its transition to Ubuntu LTS from a mix of RHEL and Fedora machines. Wikipedia is m...
VMware Hits One Out of the Park.. Almost
I decided today to upgrade VMware server on my desktop to the new version 2.0 (after all I got the email that it was released over 24 hours ago!). I had used the beta and knew that the new version of the software was web-based and was very welcome to...
