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• Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12

  Author: CSch • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 14

  Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12 Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other.

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• AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server

  Author: dervis • Tags: antivirus, email, freebsd, linux, postfix • Comments: 3

  AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to a Postfix mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 1

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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• RedHat Cluster Suite And Conga - Linux Clustering

  Author: sudhagud • Tags: centos, high-availability • Comments: 7

  RedHat Cluster Suite And Conga - Linux Clustering This how to describes an easy step by step installation of the RedHat Cluster Suite on three CentOS nodes and prepare them as nodes of a cluster. You will also install the Management suite which is web based and is known as Conga.

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• The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3]

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server, nginx • Comments: 7

  The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.2 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache.

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• How To Set Up Multi-Master Replication Using Tungsten And MySQL-Proxy For MySQL High Availability On Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

  Author: hbalagtas • Tags: mysql, ubuntu, linux, mysql, high-availability • Comments: 5

  How To Set Up Multi-Master Replication Using Tungsten And MySQL-Proxy For MySQL High Availability On Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS This tutorial is based on my experience setting up Tungsten Replicator and MySQL-Proxy for a client's production setup.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 16 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, fedora, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 2

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 16 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server • Comments: 31

  The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.2 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.

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• Ubuntu 11.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: samba, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 1

  This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.1 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, centos, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 5

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.1 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.1 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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