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While the concept of containers was introduced more than a decade ago to manage shared hosting environments securely (e.g., FreeBSD jails), Linux containers such as LXC or Docker have gone mainstream only recently with the rising need to deploy applications for the cloud. While Docker is getting all the media spotlight these days with strong […]Continue reading... The post How to create and manage LXC containers on Ubuntu appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to manage Linux containers with Docker on Ubuntu How to run Docker containers on CentOS or Fedora

Mozilla Distinguished Engineer Robert O’Callahan reports that the Spidermonkey JavaScript engine, used by the Firefox web browser, has surpassed the performance of Google’s V8 engine (used by Chrome) and Apple’s JavaScript Core (used by Safari) on three popular benchmarks: Mozilla’s own Kraken, Webkit’s SunSpider and Google’s Octane.…

OpenStack is powering the next generation of cloud services – are you ready to work with them?

Fedora Magazine is written for a general Fedora audience and typically focuses on content for users rather than for contributors. This article is aimed primarily at contributors, but covers an important topic which ultimately affects everyone: the practical goals we aim for as a project, and how (and why) we select them.

While the choices appear infinite, they are in fact narrowing quickly.

Nextbit unveiled a cloud-based “Baton” service for CyanogenMod’s Android builds that enables sync and handoffs between devices, plus backup and restore. Half Moon Bay, Calif. based startup Nextbit unveiled its Baton service with an private beta release at the Recode Code/Mobile conference. The cloud-based synchronization and backup software, which sinks its hooks deep within the […]

The Perfect Server -- CentOS 7 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 7 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3 and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more.

Karen Borchert gave a talk at the All Things Open conference on October 21 about how 'open' changes products. I am a Community Moderator for Opensource.com and covered the talks I attended at the conference this year. I will be sharing my recap of the presentations on the site over the next several weeks. read more

The LEMP stack is an increasingly popular web service stack, powering mission-critical web services in many production environments. As the name implies, the LEMP stack is composed of Linux, nginx, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP. nginx is a high performance and lightweight replacement of slow and hard-to-scale Apache HTTP server used in the traditional LAMP stack. MariaDB […]Continue reading... The post How to install LEMP stack (nginx, MariaDB/MySQL and php) on CentOS appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to install and configure Cacti on Linux How to monitor common services with Nagios How to set up MailScanner, Clam Antivirus and SpamAssassin in CentOS mail server How to set up a primary DNS server using CentOS How to set up a lightweight web server on Raspberry Pi

Version 12 first major-number Suse release since 2009 Suse has kicked out a new version of its enterprise-grade commercial Linux distribution, Suse Linux Enterprise 12, more than five years after the last major-version release.…

Mozilla released an experimental “PiFxOS” build of Firefox OS optimized for the Raspberry Pi, with an early focus on robotics and media players. At the Mozilla Festival (MozFest) in the UK, held Oct. 24-26, Mozilla revealed a version of Firefox OS for the Raspberry Pi single board computer, and said it would “prepare and maintain […]

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) minimal server installation tutorial This tutorial shows how to install an Ubuntu 14.10 minimal server. The purpose of the guide is to show a basic installation of Ubuntu 14.10 that can be used as basis for the other Ubuntu 14.10 tutorials here at howtoforge like the perfect server tutorials.

Microsoft joins a push towards ARM servers that have been building up for years.

Amazon has launched the Fire TV Stick for $19, soon to rise to $39. This HDMI stick media player runs on a dual-core SoC and offers mirroring support. Amazon’s Fire smartphone may have been a $170 million bust, but its similarly Android-based Fire TV has done well.

Project to port Firefox OS to Raspberry Pi is under way The Mozilla Foundation staged a Mozilla Festival in the UK over the weekend, and one of the projects developers delivered was a port of Firefox OS working to the Raspberry Pi.…

You do not have to be a criminal or work for the CIA to use encryption. You simply don't want anybody to spy on your financial data, family pictures, unpublished manuscripts, or secret notes where you have jotted down startup ideas which you think can make you super rich. I have heard people telling me […]Continue reading... The post How to encrypt files and directories with eCryptFS on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to password protect a folder or directory on Linux How to PGP encrypt, decrypt or digitally sign files via GnuPG GUI How to create an encrypted disk partition on Linux How to set up a secure FTP service with vsftpd on Linux How to create a cloud-based encrypted file system on Linux

Before I started volunteering with Code for America as Chicago’s Brigade Captain, I worked in a field office for the Illinois Department of Employment Security. I was hired at the start of the recession to help the state deal with the massive number of people who had been laid off in our city. read more

Game designer for Borderlands, The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us builds the droid we’ve been looking for

Review For a celebratory 10th birthday release, Ubuntu 14.10 is a bit of a damp squib.…

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week.