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This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). ownCloud enables universal access to files through the widely implemented WebDAV standard, providing a platform to easily view and sync contacts, calendars and bookmarks across devices while supporting sharing, viewing and editing via the web interface. It offers the ease-of-use of Dropbox and box.net without vendor lock in. ownCloud users can run its file sync and share services on their own hardware.

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The goal of this tutorial is to harden the mail server Postfix used by ISPConfig for internet mail servers where authenticated users are trusted. With this setup you will reject a great amount of spam before it passes into your mail queue, saving a lot of system resources and making your mail server strong against spammers and spam botnets.

http://www.howtoforge.com/hardening-postfix-for-ispconfig-3

[Ed. Note: An important message posted by Ben Hutchings into the debian-devel-announce mailing list.]

Debian 7.0 'wheezy' will include Linux 3.2. This is currently in unstable and will soon enter testing.

The kernel team is open to backporting some features from later kernel versions, particularly to support newer hardware.

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The only featureset provided will be 'rt' (realtime), currently built for amd64 only. If there is interest in realtime support for other architectures, we may be able to add that. However, we do need to consider the total time taken to build binary packages for each architecture.

If there are particular container features that should be enabled or backported to provide a useful replacement for OpenVZ or VServer, please let us know. We cannot promise that these will all be enabled but we need to know what is missing.

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This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys.

http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-your-own-distributable-ubuntu-dvd-relinux

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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released press@lists.debian.org
January 28th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120128
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The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename "squeeze" ). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 6.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 6.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.

New installation media and CD and DVD images containing updated packages will be available soon at the regular locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:

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Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and readability is not that good. Recently this lead me to put together a Open Source code project and develop simple BASH scripts that do the job nicely. The code and tar ball can be downloaded from both google code or from SourceForge's website and the project website has links to documentation, help, installation and code.

http://www.howtoforge.com/simple-linux-auditing

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.

http://www.howtoforge.com/dualbooting-windows-7-and-linux-mint-12

As announced last December, a bug squashing party is organized at IRILL's office, in Paris.

The event will happen from February Friday, 17th. to Sunday 19th.

The principle of a BSP is to gather Debian contributors to tackle a maximum of bugs in the Debian distribution.

This event is also the opportunity for new potential contributors to meet Debian Developers or Maintainers. Numerous regular contributors will attend to this BSP and will help newcomers to fix their first bugs.

For organization reasons, an inscription on the Debian wiki is mandatory.

More information:
* http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2012/02/fr/Paris
* http://www.irill.org/events/debian-bug-squashing-party-wheezy
* http://www.irill.org/about/access

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. By using AVG Antivirus with your Postfix mail server, you can ensure virus-free inboxes.

http://www.howtoforge.com/avg-antivirus-for-linux-freebsd-plus-postfix-mail-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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