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How To Change Your Login Screen In Fedora 8

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:51:45 +0200

How To Change Your Login Screen In Fedora 8

This is a simple howto on changing your log on screen. This will also work with other distros. This is a very easy way to add more eye candy to your Linux system.

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 9

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:36:39 +0200

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 9

This document describes step-by-step how to set up a Fedora 9 desktop (GNOME). The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment.

The Perfect Server - Fedora 9

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:34:35 +0200

The Perfect Server - Fedora 9

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 9 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5 and Ruby, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Fedora 9, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.

Enforce User Guidelines And Restrictions With Sabayon On Fedora 8 (Gnome)

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:25:20 +0200

Enforce User Guidelines And Restrictions With Sabayon On Fedora 8 (Gnome)

This document describes how to set up and use Sabayon on Fedora 8. Taken from the Sabayon page: "Sabayon is a system administration tool to manage GNOME desktop settings. Sabayon provides a sane way to edit GConf defaults and GConf mandatory keys: the same way you edit your desktop. Sabayon launches profiles in an Xnest window. Any changes you make in the Xnest window are saved back to the profile file, which can then be applied to user's accounts."

Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Fedora 8 & Apache2)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:50:10 +0200

Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Fedora 8 & Apache2)

This guide explains how to integrate APC (Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Fedora 8 system (with Apache2). APC is a free and open PHP opcode cacher for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and XCache.

How To Set Up The Bti-Tracker BitTorrent Tracker System On Fedora/Centos/Redhat

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:35:01 +0200

How To Set Up The Bti-Tracker BitTorrent Tracker System On Fedora/Centos/Redhat

BtiTracker is a complete PHP tracker system for BitTorrent, easy to setup and configure. It comes with full remote admin management. This guide explains how to set it up on a Fedora/CentOS/RedHat system.

Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:13:16 +0200

Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart

This document describes how to set up an installation environment with kickstart and NFS. With the resulting system you will be able run unattended Fedora 8 installations on the client systems in your LAN - additionally, you will save lots of Internet bandwidth. The whole client configuration can be included into the kickstart file (especially the post-installation script) so you, the admin, will also save a vast amount of time.

Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Fedora 8/CentOS 5.1 & Apache2)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:10:14 +0200

Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Fedora 8/CentOS 5.1 & Apache2)

This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Fedora 8 or CentOS 5.1 system (with Apache2). From the XCache project page: "XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load." It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.

How to add two-factor authentication to Google Apps for your Domain using open source software

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:45:47 +0200

How to add two-factor authentication to Google Apps for your Domain using open source software

Everybody loves GMail. With Google Apps for you Domain, you can use GMail with your own domain, allowing organizations to outsource their email - and the requisite anti-spam filtering to Google. Webmail is very convenient, but for frequent travellers and those who use public wifi, it can be quite dangerous. Logging in from a kiosk or shared computer is a sure way to get your username and password stolen by a keystroke logger. Using a public WiFi system can lead to a man-in-the-middle attack. In this document we will take advantage of two open source projects to add two-factor authentication to Google Apps. The first is Gheimdall, a a TurboGears project for Google Apps SSO service. Gheimdall supports PAM and LDAP authentication natively. It also includes sample code to add new authentication methods, which made it very easy to add two-factor authentication from WiKID. WiKID is a dual-source two-factor authentication solution that uses public key cryptography to strongly authenticate users.

Protect Your Files With TrueCrypt 5 On Fedora 8

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:39:44 +0200

Protect Your Files With TrueCrypt 5 On Fedora 8

This document describes how to set up TrueCrypt 5 on Fedora 8. Taken from the TrueCrypt page: "TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc)."

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:18:10 +0200

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Fedora 8). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

Setting Up LVM On Top Of Software RAID Subsystem - RHEL & Fedora

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:03:47 +0100

Setting Up LVM On Top Of Software RAID Subsystem - RHEL & Fedora

Here is a quick look how to build an LVM on top of RAID 1 array, so that we combine the power of these two. This kind of setup is extremely useful in situations where we want a file server to store large amounts of data which provides a centralized backup, storage space for downloadable files via ftp/http, and that may grow enormously in the coming years after the initial setup.

Installing The Open Source Ticket Request System (OTRS) On Fedora 8

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:37:52 +0100

Installing The Open Source Ticket Request System (OTRS) On Fedora 8

This document describes how to set up the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) on Fedora 8. Taken from the OTRS page: "OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries."

Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:35:13 +0100

Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8

This document describes how to install preload on Fedora 8. Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon - it will monitor which programs you use at the most. Parts of these programs will be cached to speed up their load time.

VMware Server v1.04 On Fedora 8 With Kernel 2.6.24

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:52:14 +0100

VMware Server v1.04 On Fedora 8 With Kernel 2.6.24

This document describes how to set up VMware Server v1.04 on Fedora 8 with the brand-new kernel 2.6.24 (2.6.24.3-12.fc8).