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(R)?ex is a server orchestration and configuration management tool. With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment. In this guide I will show you with the help of a project how to use (R)?ex to configure your servers and how to deploy software.

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-manage-your-servers-with-rex-best-practice

This tutorial shows how you can install and run OXID eShop Community Edition (version 4.5.9) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). OXID eShop is a feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Community Edition here which is licensed under an open source certified license (GPL v3.. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Squeeze. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Xubuntu 12.04 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.

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-xubuntu-12.04

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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
May 14th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/10/
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Welcome to this year's tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

* Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.5 released
* Deadlines reminder for DebConf12
* General Resolution about diversity statement
* First alpha release of the installer for Debian Wheezy
* "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" freed!
* An ever growing mirrors network
* Bits from the DPL
* Other news
* Upcoming events
* New Debian Contributors
* Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
* Important Debian Security Advisories
* New and noteworthy packages
* Work-needing packages
* Want to continue reading DPN?

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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-12.04-lts-lamp

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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.5 released press@lists.debian.org
May 12th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120512
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The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth 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 for 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.

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mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Squeeze server.

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-back-up-mysql-databases-with-mylvmbackup-on-debian-squeeze

The Debian Administrator's Handbook is now available in an online format, as a 495 page paperback book, and also as an e-book in PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket formats.

The handbook's authors are two Debian developers ? Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas ? so you can have some assurance that they probably know what they're talking about.

If you decide to download the Debian Administrator's Handbook, please make sure you thank the authors for their work and/or send them your thoughts and feedback about the text.

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server 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, 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. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface.

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