This tutorial will walk you through the process of installing a CentOS 6 LAMP server, LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP and is often refereed to as a “LAMP Stack“. CentOS is a popular choice for web servers as it’s based on RHEL (Redhat Linux), this tutorial will use YUM to install the required packages. This…
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Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE-p1
Enhancements GUI Selecting reboot now causes the screen to turn red during the confirmation dialog, adding emphasis to the fact that this operation will affect availability. Bugfixes OS/Third party Samba has been upgraded to 3.6.4 to address CVE-2012-1182 which is a critical vulnerability. All FreeNAS users who are using CIFS are urged to upgrade. Create…
Installation of OpenSIPS on RedHat Rel5…
The following document will guide you through the installation of the newly released OpenSIPS version 1.5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 along with mysql. I will divide this process in 2 phases: – Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 – Installation and configuration of OpenSIPS, webmin and mysql The following components and parameters…
Thunderbird as a Microsoft Outlook replacement to talk to Exchange.????
This morning a friend was complaining on Twitter about using Evolutionon Linux to talk to his company’s Exchange server. Evolution is the default answer to the question “how do I talk to Exchange from Linux”, but my past experience has been much like my friend’s – it’s really not a very good answer. I suggested Thunderbird to him. In my…
Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE
Enhancements GUI Rename ‘loaders’ to ‘tunables’ to target the FreeBSD concept under inspection (kernel tunables) (SF r10235, r10236). Bugfixes OS/Third party Remove sane caps for minimum ZFS requirements for lower spec’ed home user machines added in 8.0.4-BETA1. A better solution will be devised in 8.2.0 with automatic system tuning, similar to legacy’s zfskerntune (SF r10271)….
Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.4-BETA2
Enhancements OS/Third party Update transmission to 2.42 (SF r10093). Add MegaCLI tool (SF r10072, r10073). Disable periodic tasks in the base system that would negatively impact system performance on NAS boxes with large directory structures (SF r10113). Bugfixes Middleware Fix handling for ‘every day’ SMART tasks created in the GUI (SF r10088). Add in several…
m0n0wall 1.33 released
There are ready-made binary images for embedded computers from Soekris Engineering and PC Engines, a CF/IDE HD image for most standard PCs (other embedded ones may work, too) with either keyboard/monitor or serial console, a CD-ROM (ISO) image for standard PCs, a VMware image, as well as a tarball of the root filesystem. Refer to…
Snapshots of FreeBSD 8.2 based m0n0wall available
Development is currently being done on a FreeBSD 8.2 based version of m0n0wall that brings better support for current hardware (especially new WLAN and Ethernet controllers), as well as massive improvements to the IPv6 support. Snapshots Snapshots are built whenever there is a commit to the repository. The version number format is 1.8.0bXXX, where XXX…
Kubuntu going away? Doubtful.
I’m sure everyone has seen the proverbial “nail-in-the-coffin” for the big blue gears, but Kubuntu is a largely populated distribution that I think it going to bounce right back. Kubuntu is a Ubuntu based distribution that opened it’s doors seven years ago with version 5.04. It has often been on the bleeding edge of KDE…
Ubuntu 11.10: Post Install Guide
Everyone has there little rituals they do when installing a fresh operating system of there choice. Here is mine. Updates and Proprietary Drivers When I have Installed a fresh copy of any Operating System the first thing I do is install any updates that are required. You can either use the GUI…