Archive for the ‘Servers’ Category

Setting Up Feisty Fawn Server

Posted by Rom Feria on April 20th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Fast on the heels of Thursday's Ubuntu 7.0.4 release, Falko Timme releases a tutorial on how to setup a Feisty Fawn-based server over at HowToForge.

The tutorial teaches you how to install a web …

Lighttpd: the little known web server

Posted by Rom Feria on April 5th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

We all know that Apache web server powers a majority of today's internet. An alternative lightweight open source web server, lighttpd, is fast gaining popularity specially with the Web 2.0 folks s…

VirtualBox on Dapper Drake

Posted by Rom Feria on April 4th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Last January, I featured VirtualBox, another open source virtualization software, along with a link to a Tutorial on how to install it on Edgy Eft.

Here's another tutorial on how to install Virtu…

Working with Zimbra on Ubuntu

Posted by Rom Feria on March 8th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

First – what is Zimbra? According to their website,

Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration – email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management …

Be a Linux Puppetmaster

Posted by Rom Feria on March 4th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

What is puppet?
Puppet is an application that "lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements…

Linux Server Market Increases

Posted by Rom Feria on March 1st, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

InternetNews covered a Gartner report citing an increase in world-wide server growth. On a related note, LinuxElectrons reports on an IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker stating a 5.2% growth…

Largest Open-Xchange deployment?

Posted by Rom Feria on March 1st, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

iTWire reports of the largest open-source deal ever with the deployment of Open-Xchange by internet service provider 1&1.

In what they claim is the largest-ever open source deal, collaboration de…

Guarding the Web

Posted by Rom Feria on March 1st, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Keith Winston of Linux.com provides a tutorial on filtering web content using open source tools like squid and squidGuard.

Content filtering for the Web can be a messy proposition. A business may nee…

Basic Linux server connectivity troubleshooting

Posted by Rom Feria on February 21st, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Normally, these tools are often taught at basic linux server administration courses. However, for those who do not want to go through the rigors of a formal training, this basic introduction on how to…

Linux on "Spotlight"

Posted by Rom Feria on February 20th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Whilst Apple's Mac OS X comes with Spotlight, Beagle pretty much does it for Linux. With the next version of Spotlight supporting searching across the network for resources, e.g. document files, s…