In part 2 of my Nagios & Ubuntu 9.04 guide, I will show you how you can turn your basic and insecure installation into one that isn’t so blatantly dumb. Anyone who wishes to delve into the world of internet technology should always be reading and keeping up with the latest news

I’ve recently set-up CouchDB on the Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) virtual machine I use for development. This was a relatively pain-free experience and I thought I’d outline what I did here for the benefit of others

Here’s a few tips and tricks about how to speed up your Flash and Firefox on Ubuntu

I’ve dabbled in Ubuntu before. Several times, in fact. I never stuck with it for very long, however. One thing or another always soured me on the whole OS, and it was quickly replaced with the Windows OS of choice at the time.

OpenSIPS will be best deployed on Sun machine running Solaris OS to obtain it’s best performance. But installing on Debian or Ubuntu machine will much easier. OpenSIPS modules depend on various package which is hard to get for Solaris. Debian or Ubuntu will be the best OS for installing practice.

Active Media Products (AMP), manufacturer of SSDs and WWF series USB drives, today announced immediate availability of a bootable Linux USB (BLU) drive that is compatible with Windows® 7 and benefits WWF.

You might have heard about two other operating systems though, one being Macintosh OS-X and the other being Linux – specifically Ubuntu LInux. Today we’re going to talk about Ubuntu LInux and it’s use as a personal operating system.

Now, over the past few years, some of us had begun to believe that we could see a bright light forming at the end of that confused and heterogeneous tunnel. Out of the ferocious Linux distribution wars, one contender has emerged with the seeming strength to take on the rest–at least when it comes to [...]

This chapter discusses some of the methods you can use with Ubuntu servers to make them more fault-tolerant, starting with some general fault tolerance principles, then covering ways to add fault tolerance to your storage and network with RAID and Ethernet bonding, respectively, and finally explaining how to set up a basic two-server cluster.

After powering the PC down, I noticed it could not find a a working Linux image to boot off of. I had trouble restoring Ubuntu Linux 9.04 so I loaded a copy of Fedora which is the open source version of Red Hat Linux.

As you all know that the process is an instance of a computer program and one process may consist of many threads. Process Management is one of the most important responsibility of the operating systems

Today however, I intend touching on some ten reasons why in my view, despite Linux’s set backs, it is still worth a try especially by my African brothers and sisters. The distro I am going to base my assertions on is the Ubuntu Linux variant (thats my primary OS) all the assertions are equally applicable [...]

At Debconf 9, Steve Langasek delivered a talk on pam-auth-update, which included a tongue-in-cheek slide about how it had come to be. He pointed out that this project had required about six years of “thinking” and two months of actual development…

Lethe makes the partitions behave like a Live CD: all changes made on the file system will not be saved on the disk but in RAM and when the system restarts, all the content saved in the previous session is “forgotten” and lost and the disk / partitions are restored to their original state.

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Netbook-Remix, but these programs shoudl be platform independent. I will go with the pre-set menus that Ubuntu gives us all.

Gnome system restrictions utility Lockdown Editor lets you create a profile that limits a user to a set of application that a system administrator allows. It has a nice, logically structured GUI that allows administrators to choose and click checkboxes on the options that you want to deny for user access.

The Console is one of the more interesting parts of the Ubuntu system. It is where the Command Line lives and where instructions can be passed to the machine using any number of commands and scripting formulas.

Here’s a short guide to how to finetune your PostgreSQL installation

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #152 for the week July 19th – July 25th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Karmic Alpha 3 released, Launchpad is now open source, Ubuntu-US-NY is now an approved Ubuntu LoCo team…

Liferea developers have announced the availability of the first stable version of the 1.6.x series. Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds.

Want to keep a style for your Ubuntu that has the style of Windows? Well, then what are the benefits for doing that? Most of all, the basic function that you could get by doing this is making it working just like you did back then when you started using the computer with Windows.

A Launchpad spec targeting Karmic Koala (the next release of Ubuntu) describes specifications for a unified application for installing software on Ubuntu. To be clear, everything will still be based on Apt, so this isn’t a significant backend change, but rather a focus on a better user layer.

Some people have seen me mention some ideas about how we can effectively access data on the Ubuntu Desktop. Making it much better than even MacOSX for standard data types.

This chapter covers some of the general steps you can take to isolate the cause a wide range of Ubuntu Server problems and work out their solutions.

By happy coincidence, the next version of Ubuntu, the most popular distribution for those who do switch, is launching exactly one week after Windows 7 hits the shelves. Codenamed Karmic Koala, we’re loving the alpha version already, but here are some things that Windows does that Ubuntu should (but probably won’t) do, to help woo [...]

You can enable auto login in Ubuntu using the following 3 simple steps. Please understand that it is not security best practices to enable the automatic login. Do this only if you are in a controlled environment and very confident that nobody will have physical access to the system except you.

System restrictions utility Lockdown Editor lets you lock down your Gnome desktop, removing access to the command line, specific panel items, or even prevent locking the screen.

A National Science Foundation grant project developed largely by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has resulted in Eucalyptus Systems, a three-month-old startup which has produced new open-source cloud infrastructure software that is a key component in Ubuntu 9.04 and its upcoming 9.10 edition.

Getting Linux on a computer without dumping Windows right off the bat is the first step. The next is to become proficient with the apps you’ll use in Linux. Fortunately, the learning curve is small, and there’s a variety to choose from. You also may need to share data between the two platforms, and that [...]