Nearly five months after the release of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has completed the updating of its key licenses by the release of the GNU Affero General Public License (GAGPL). The GAGPL is designed for use with software distributed over a network, such as a Web application or software as a service.
SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 7.10
This is a detailed
description about setting up an Ubuntu based server
(Ubuntu 7.10) to act as file- and printserver for Windows(tm)
workstations in small workgroups. This howto uses the tdb backend for SAMBA
to store passwords and account information. This is suitable for workgroups
for up to 250 users and is easier to set up than an LDAP backend.
Rather than choose her current career, it almost seems as if Cathy Malmrose’s career chose her. Malmrose is CEO of ZaReason, an OEM that manufactures and sells desktop and notebook systems with Ubuntu, where she deals with everything from talking with the US Department of Commerce concerning export issues to inspecting the hardware for quality assurance purposes.
Many organizations face a productivity problem with employees who abuse chat programs like MSN Messenger. Some IT departments are instructed to block this kind of traffic for users who either abuse or simply don’t require the software. You can block applications like MSN Messenger in your proxy server, but some clients may still have access to the applications, because there are many versions of MSN Messenger in use, making blocking the application with a proxy server difficult. Instead, block MSN Messenger traffic more easily with iptables.
Fedora’s Pirut is a useful tool for basic software installation and package searches. However, if you really want to take control of package management, you need to get back to basics with yum. Just as, on Debian systems, dpkg is the back end underlying apt-get and graphical tools such as Synaptic, so on RPM systems, yum is the hidden power behind Pirut and the Pup updater. Not only does yum have more options than Pirut, but you can enhance it with additional plugins and utilities, many of which work only with yum.
Intrusion Detection: Snort, Base, MySQL, and Apache2 On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort
(an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis
and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about
possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database
which BASE will use to display a graphical interface in a web browser.
Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 10.3 Desktop (ATI Mobility Radeon 9200)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion
on an OpenSUSE 10.3 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 here). With
Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a
desktop cube on your desktop.
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora 8)
This document describes how to install a mail server based on
Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and
domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the
installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP),
so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database
Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I’ll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately). Passwords are stored in encrypted
form in the database (most documents I found were dealing with plain
text passwords which is a security risk). In addition to that, this
tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses.
Many people still question whether Linux will ever make it fully into mainstream computer acceptance. A $199 computer now available on a major superstore’s shelves just in time for Christmas might change all that. Anyone who wants a computer to just to send email and instant messages and watch YouTube videos should like the Everex gPC, which is powered by a nifty Linux distribution called gOS.