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This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup. This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 12.10.

This is the best iteration of Fuduntu I have seen since it became independent from Fedora, so it is a shame to see this amazing distribution go into that good night.

The GNOME 3.8 desktop environment has been officially released on March 27, 2013, and it brought lots of nice features.

In the article about the tips to use the command line faster, I mentioned about bringing a command or a script to background if it takes a long time to run. In today's article, I will give some examples in details of how to manage background jobs in Linux.

This year, the Fest will be held on April 27th & 28th in 2013, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days. People often arrive early to chat over coffee or to help with Fest set-up. There's even an after-Fest party on Saturday. Stay informed by subscribing to the Fest mailing list.

Inforce Computing has unveiled a $149 Linux- and Android-friendly Pico-ITX boardset based on a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 processor. The tiny IFC6410 module is equipped with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and provides HDMI, LVDS, a MIPI-CSI camera interface, built-in WiFi/Bluetooth, and numerous other functions.

This time around, we have two release VOTEs in progress, which means that 4.1.0 is just about out the door. The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 has been announced for June 23rd through 25th. You'll also want to check in on the discussions about the length of the release cycle, Chip Childers and David Nalley appearing on FLOSS Weekly, and much more.

A lot has happened since the last issue of the CloudStack Weekly News, and not just because the community's been busy -- we missed getting last week's issue out. Sorry about that! If you'd like to see consistent weekly delivery, check the end of the newsletter to see how you can help.

Virtualization is now a staple of the modern enterprise. As more and more shops switch to the virtual paradigm, managing those new virtual resources is a critical part of any deployment. For admins using Microsoft- or VMware-based hypervisors, powerful management tools are available to keep their virtual houses in order.

Holy cow! Jagged Alliance: Flashback has just been put up on Kickstarter with Linux support right in!

I really do think that OpenSuSE 12.3 is the best in the OpenSuSE 12.x range. But that's far not the best operating system. And, I should admit, this is not the honest operating system. It's a cheater!

An alpha version of Fedora 19 has been released, so it’s a good time to take a sneak peek at what Fedora 19 will have to offer users. As always you should note that alpha releases like Fedora 19 should be considered for testing purposes and fun only. You should not rely on it as your daily desktop distro.

Introduction to the open source peer to peer cryptocurrency, why get involved, how to buy it, how to sell, and where to spend.

Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention framework written in the Python programming language. Fail2ban’s main function is to block selected IP addresses that may belong to hosts that are trying to breach the system’s security. It determines the hosts to be blocked by monitoring log files (e.g. /var/log/pwdfail, /var/log/auth.log, etc.) and bans any host IP that makes too many login attempts or performs any other unwanted action within a time frame defined by the administrator. Today I want to show you some configurations that you can use to improve the security of your Apache.

While they may or may not be reliable, there are reports showing up online claiming that the first Firefox OS phones could go on sale this week. The Verge and The Next Web have been providing updates, and the big surprise is that while companies ranging from ZTE to Alcatel, LG, Huawei and Sony have committed to producing Firefox OS phones, the first company to offer them out of the gate is a small Spanish player called Geeksphone. Whoever ships these phones first will get a leg up on what could become a big trend, and possibly the key to Mozilla's future. Here is a look at how Firefox OS phones could transform Mozilla.

When Oracle bought Sun, one of the reasons was to gain control of MySQL, the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS). It didn't work. Some of MySQL's founders and top programmers had already left to create the MySQL fork, MariaDB, while others started SkySQL, a MySQL and MariaDB support company. Now, the old core MySQL developers have rejoined forces.

Everyone seems to agree that the Cloud is the place to go.Ten years from today, what percentage of all that matters will live within an increasingly smaller number of ever more enormous data complexes?  And what will have been done to protect them from physical, as well as cyber, attack?

For most home-based situations, you won’t have to bother with the security of your Linux machine. It is pretty secure by default. However, if you are using your computer as a server, either SSH server or Web server, or you are the system administrator for your company, then you will have to step up on the Linux security.

Intel has used the Chinese leg of its IDF (Intel Developer Forum) event to lift the wraps on its new HTML5 Development Environment. The environment is available free of licensing fees and other costs.

Detractors of open source software often point to its broad developer base and open source code as a potential security risk. But that's not a fair assessment, according to Dr Ian Levy, technical director with the CESG, a department of the UK's GCHQ intelligence agency that advises UK government on IT security.

Fedora 19 Alpha is the second of the three major releases this week, and this development release marks the beginning of public testing for the next major version of the distro