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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Fedora 11 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 2

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Fedora 11 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Fedora 11 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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• Paravirtualized Gentoo 2009 domU Using Debian Lenny

  Author: jahil • Tags: debian, virtualization, xen • Comments: 0

  Paravirtualized Gentoo 2009 domU Using Debian Lenny This guide will help you to create gentoo paravirtualized xen guest under Debian Lenny. Since Gentoo 2008.0 release is deprecated, so we will use current gentoo stage.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2 On A Headless Debian Lenny Server

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

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2 On A Headless Debian Lenny Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2 on a headless Debian Lenny 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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• How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Ubuntu 9.10)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 0

  How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Ubuntu 9.10) This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

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• How To Upgrade From Fedora 12 To Fedora 13 (Desktop & Server)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora • Comments: 6

  How To Upgrade From Fedora 12 To Fedora 13 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 12 system to Fedora 13. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

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• The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 10.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 14

  The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 10.04 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 10.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 10.04 is derived from Ubuntu 10.04 and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

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• The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 7

  The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 9 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.

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• HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached "Built-In Server Side Replication" On Debian Lenny

  Author: MarcusSpiegel • Tags: apache, debian, high-availability, programming • Comments: 5

  HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached "Built-In Server Side Replication" On Debian Lenny People probably know about memcached and its high performance name-value based memory object cache interface. Its main purpose is to provide an easy to use distributed caching engine in a multinode environment. Have you ever wanted to let memcached handle replication?

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• The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 10.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 1

  This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 10.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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