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Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian

Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian

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 only webserver available. A few good examples are
lighttpd and nginx. In this tutorial I will show you how to install it
on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial also applies to Debian, though.
There is only a very small difference.

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How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10

How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10

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 data transferred between the master
and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a
database from a master server on another server (slave), and all
updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated
to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync.
This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE
command will also be carried out on the slave; but replication can help
protect against hardware failures though.

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Red Hat Exchange Is Dead

darthcamaro writes “In 2007, Red Hat launched the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) — an appstore, if you will, of open source partner applications sold from a Red Hat website. Sounds like a good idea, right? While an appstore works well for Apple, turns out that an appstore for open source (from a Linux vendor) isn’t such a good idea. ‘When we came out with RHX we were hoping for more ambitious adoption but we’ve learned that selling third-party applications via a marketplace is challenging,’ Mike Evans, Red Hat’s vice president of corporate development said. ‘When you’ve got marketplaces that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marketplace or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marketplace was, there isn’t a real efficient marketplace.’”

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Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition

uneuser writes “Digitizor reports that the Ubuntu developers have dropped OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 and replaced it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default.”

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How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny

How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny

Debian Etch is soon
to be unsupported by the Debian team, there for all Debian Linux
Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny, I work for Netzen (an IT Support
company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the
past month, So I am providing this guide on how to upgrade Debian Etch
to Debian Lenny to the HowtoForge community.

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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12

Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12

Nginx (pronounced
“engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx
is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and
low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx
on a Fedora 12 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL
support.

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How To Add Two-Factor Authentication To Openvpn AS With The WiKID Strong Authentication Server

How To Add Two-Factor Authentication To Openvpn AS With The WiKID Strong Authentication Server

It’s been a while since our last tutorial on how to add two-factor authentication to OpenVPN using the WiKID Strong Authentication System.
The people at OpenVPN have been very active lately and it seems like a
good time to take a look at what they’ve done. It’s still dead simple
to configure, but it is mostly done via the new slick web interface.

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Android and the Linux Kernel Community

An anonymous reader links to Greg Kroah-Hartman’s explanation of a rift (hopefully mendable) in the development culture of Google’s Linux-based Android OS and the Linux kernel itself. “As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I’m starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android. So here’s my opinion on the whole matter …”

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Trafficanalysis Using Debian Lenny

Trafficanalysis Using Debian Lenny

By using my Network Monitoring Appliance we noticed a link in MRTG
always under heavy load. On this link a lot of different traffic
aggregates, so we decided to analyze of what quantities of protocols
and therefore applications the cumulative traffic consists.

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ARM Exec Says 90% of PC Market Could Be Netbooks

Barence writes “ARM chief executive Warren East has claimed that netbooks could dominate the PC market, in an exclusive interview with PC Pro. ‘Although netbooks are small today – maybe 10% of the PC market at most – we believe over the next several years that could completely change around and that could be 90% of the PC market,’ he said. East also said ARM isn’t pressuring Microsoft to include support for its processors in Windows, claiming progress in the Linux world is ‘very, very impressive.’ ‘There’s not really a huge amount of point in us knocking on Microsoft’s door,’ he said. ‘It’s really an operational decision for Microsoft to make. I don’t think there’s any major technical barriers.’”

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