Articles by Neil Golden
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Configure Postfix to use Gmail as a Mail Relay
Author: Neil Golden • Tags: centos, debian, email, fedora, freebsd, linux, opensuse, server, suse, ubuntu • Comments: 62If you have a Gmail account, you can configure your MTA to relay outgoing mail through Gmail. This gives you the benefit of Gmail's reliability and robust infrastructure, and provides you with a simple means of sending email from the command line. In this tutorial, we will use Postfix as our MTA. Postfix is a free, open-source, actively maintained, and highly secure mail transfer agent.
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Configuring a single Ubuntu installation as a dual-boot option and a VirtualBox appliance under Windows 10
Author: Neil Golden •
Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 15 I often need to use Windows 10 and Ubuntu on the same machine within a single login session, so I run Ubuntu as a virtual machine in Oracle VirtualBox. But I also like to be able to boot my computer natively into Ubuntu, so a dual-boot configuration is optimal. To get the best of both worlds, I install Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration alongside Windows, and configure VirtualBox to access the Ubuntu disk partitions as a raw disk image. This allows me to boot directly into Ubuntu, or boot the same Ubuntu installation from within Windows using VirtualBox.
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Replicating a master database using MariaDB 10 on Debian 8
Author: Neil Golden •
Tags: debian, linux, mysql, server •
Comments: 1 Replicating databases creates redundancy which can protect against data loss, and permit optimized performance for applications. This tutorial will cover the basics of replicating an existing MariaDB 10.0 master database to one or more slaves. In the following examples, the host operating system is Debian 8.
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Run your own cloud: Installing OwnCloud 9 on Debian 8
Author: Neil Golden •
Tags: debian, linux, server, storage, web server •
Comments: 20 OwnCloud offers you the ability to run a cloud storage service that you administer and control yourself. The latest version, ownCloud 9.0, was released on March 8. Let's look at the process of installing ownCloud 9.0 on a system running Debian Jessie.
