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This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 6.0 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably and where ISPConfig runs out of the box.

"WordPress remains at its core a monstrous amalgamation of PHP spaghetti code. Thus, despite the fact that WordPress is free (beer+speech), easy to use, well supported, well documented, and all that jazz… it still pains my hacker sensibilities to use it. For similar reasons, a lot of hacker types are moving away from WordPress and similar blog software to static site generators like jekyll."

Techworld Australia caught up with lead Syllable OS developer Kaj de Vos to talk about the operating system and its philosophy. The result is a (very) lengthy Q&A.

In this tip we’re going to explore a couple of ways to find open IP (Internet Protocol) addresses on your network. You might need this information if you were going to temporarily set a static IP address for a host. Even after you’ve found an open IP though, you still need to take care to avoid IP conflicts if your network uses DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Please also be aware that one of these techniques uses the nmap network scanning program, which may be against policy in some environments. Even if it’s not against corporate policy, the nmap man page states that “there are administrators who become upset and may complain when their system is scanned. Thus, it is often advisable to request permission before doing even a light scan of a network.”

Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its big break into corporate Linux? All good guesses, but Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, is pretty sure that Red Hat’s biggest competitor in 2016 will be VMware.

Standard backup tools like BackupPC are great for backing-up moderate amounts of user data but they can be impractical with huge data stores such as multi-terabyte RAID arrays as they need a backup store that is larger than the source data. My simple solution is to clone the array with another drive and store it off-site.

Microsoft released on August 29 an integrated environment for developing in Python using Visual Studio 2010. Known as Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), the new, free tools are available under the Apache 2.0 license, and available for download from Microsoft’s CodePlex site. PTVS came out of the Technical Computing Group unit at Microsoft.

With a brief news item, Oracle has retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (DLJ) that was created by Sun in 2006. The non-free licence had allowed Linux distributors to package and distribute Sun's, and later Oracle's, Java versions in their Linux distributions. Sun made this licence available after releasing Java as open source at the JavaOne conference in 2006. It was designed to ensure that users had easy access to packages containing the well-tested Sun Java during the development of the free OpenJDK.

GhostBSD is GNOME implementation in FreeBSD system. Latest version is 2.0. It was released at the end of March 2011. This version is based on FreeBSD 8.2.

Conky is a graphical system monitoring tool for Linux, that can also be used for automatic maintenance and event notification on local or remote computers.

A news aggregator is software which collates news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a central place for fast, convenient viewing. Given the plethora of news sources that are available on the net, news aggregators play a vital role in enabling surfers to find breaking news and articles of particular interest.

Interview with developer Dusty Phillips about his Linux desktop setup.

If you are a Linux geek, and you want to start your own blog, you will want to do it "The Linux way". Here are some tools you may need to start it.

While the Mandriva Linux distribution lost most of its charm when many of the developers left to form Mageia Linux and the remaining stakeholders switched to just doing one official release per year, the 2011 final release was published on Sunday...

Bodhi Linux was recommended to me as a possible solution to try after I mentioned having system resource issues with Ubuntu One. I have to admit I’ve been rather curious about Bodhi as I have read several rave reviews on it.

Hackers GliGli & Tiros developed a Hack which glitches all recent Xbox 360 Kernels to run unsigned code on.

Proftpd is a modular FTP server that runs on Linux. One of the proftpd modules is for MySQL and enables users to be stored in the database instead of the system. Users can have a different home directories as they are set per user in the database, different quotas can be set for users as well.

To access Wireless LAN you usually need to find a so-called hotspot where you can use the local Wireless LAN to access the Internet. Android smartphones however have a feature which enables them to become a wireless hotspot themselves - they use UMTS to connect to the Internet and make the Internet connection available to other computers/devices via WLAN. This article describes how you can configure this feature.

For the story, due to license reasons, the version of Java packaged in Linux distributions is not the same as the one released on the official website. Each time a new version of Java is was released, Sun/Oracle people are were publishing a other distro specific release available on a dedicated website.

Mandriva 2011, the latest desktop edition of the popular Linux distribution, was released yesterday. If you have just installed it, you would have noticed, if you mouseover the update manager icon, this message: “No medium found. You must add some media through ‘Software Media Manager’.” That is just telling you that the package (or update) manager is not pointing to any remote software sources or repositories. As a result, no updates can be applied to the system. If you are new to Mandriva, this brief tutorial will show the simple steps you can take to add (remote) software sources to the system, plus a few other customizations tips, such as replacing the default menu.