Ubuntu Development Special Edition

Full Circle Magazine – Ubuntu development Special Edition
The single-topic Special Editions continue with Daniel Holbach’s behind-the-scenes run-through of the Ubuntu Development Process; the collected articles parts 1 through 4
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Ubuntu Development Special Edition

Full Circle Magazine – Ubuntu development Special Edition
The single-topic Special Editions continue with Daniel Holbach’s behind-the-scenes run-through of the Ubuntu Development Process; the collected articles parts 1 through 4
Go get it from:…

Fedora Weekly News (FWN): Issue 295

Fedora Project welcome you to the Fedora Weekly News(FWN) Issue 295[1]. The dynamic stream of FWN 295 covers few breaking news for the community worldwide. Spherical Cow- the release name of Fedora 18 followed by the most spreading and expecting event FUDCon which will be held in Paris in 2012 & in Lawrence, Kansas in [...]

Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.5 released

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename `squeeze’). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available. Please note that this update does [...]

How To Manage Your Servers With Rex – Best Practice

How To Manage Your Servers With Rex – Best Practice

(R)?ex is a server orchestration and configuration management tool.
With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through
the complete process of configuration management and softw…

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (LAMP)

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL su…

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

mylvmbackup
is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM’s
snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a
read lock on all tables and flus…

EA Games and Ubuntu

Electronic Arts are delivering two games into Ubuntu, Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances and Lord of Ultima. They are currently available in the Ubuntu Software Center. While some may focus on the fact that these are loading web apps, the really exciting opportunity here is that EA have identified Ubuntu as an exciting channel to [...]

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is
based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a
MySQL database. …

Monthly Stats – February 2012

Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $500 (2nd donation), Mike Shimanski $300 (4th donation), Terry Mansfield aka “tmansfield” $202, Patient’s Guide $108 (2nd donation), S R W. $100 (3rd donation), Larry B. $100, Jon Hulka $100, Timothy W. L. $100, Vlad aka “Monsta” $63.8 [...]

Monthly Stats – February 2012

Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $500 (2nd donation), Mike Shimanski $300 (4th donation), Terry Mansfield aka “tmansfield” $202, Patient’s Guide $108 (2nd donation), S R W. $100 (3rd donation), Larry B. $100, Jon Hulka $100, Timothy W. L. $100, Vlad aka “Monsta” $63.8 [...]

Monthly Stats – March 2012

Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $259.44 (3rd donation), Hendrik S. $129.72, Erwin F. $100 (11th donation), Andreas S. aka “Unforgiving67“ $100 (3rd donation), Jan C. $100 (2nd donation), Mohammed A. $100 (2nd donation), Vlad aka “Monsta” $100, Charles R. H. $100, Tim Y. [...]

Monthly Stats – March 2012

Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $259.44 (3rd donation), Hendrik S. $129.72, Erwin F. $100 (11th donation), Andreas S. aka “Unforgiving67“ $100 (3rd donation), Jan C. $100 (2nd donation), Mohammed A. $100 (2nd donation), Vlad aka “Monsta” $100, Charles R. H. $100, Tim Y. [...]

Monthly Stats – April 2012

Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $259.44, Christian D. $259.44, Richard G. $200, Thomas O. $100 (8th donation), Jordan S. $100 (5th donation), Richard H. $100 (4th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“ $100 (3rd donation), Mohammed A. $100, Hans S. $100, William W. $100, [...]

Monthly Stats – April 2012

Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $259.44, Christian D. $259.44, Richard G. $200, Thomas O. $100 (8th donation), Jordan S. $100 (5th donation), Richard H. $100 (4th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“ $100 (3rd donation), Mohammed A. $100, Hans S. $100, William W. $100, [...]

Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)

Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)

EncFS
provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any
special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to
provide the filesystem interface. It is …

Interview with Salih Emin of Utappia

Linux ecosystem consists of so many people doing a great job, and it is only natural for someone not to know everyone out there. Many worthy developers are unknown to the majority of users and sometimes their magnificent projects are unused, or underused due to low publicity. Salih Emin is one of those, and his [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 264

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #264 for the week April 30 – May 6, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Quantal open for development Ubuntu Developer Summit: May 7-11 Ask Mark & Ubuntu Open Week Days 1-3 Welcome New Members Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Serbia [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 264

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #264 for the week April 30 – May 6, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Quantal open for development Ubuntu Developer Summit: May 7-11 Ask Mark & Ubuntu Open Week Days 1-3 Welcome New Members Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Serbia [...]

Cloud Storage Options for Linux Users: Now’s the Time

One of the biggest stories of this week was Google’s announcement of its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage solution. You can sign up for 5GB of free storage from Google, use it efficiently with your Android device, and find out more about it here. However, many Linux users were more than annoyed that the cloud [...]