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Linux Mint Debian Edition Review | Desktop Linux Reviews

John Allen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:34:53 +0000

Linux Mint Debian Edition Review | Desktop Linux Reviews.

ClearFoundation develops ClearOS, a Linux Network, Gateway, Server

John Allen — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:45:38 +0000

ClearOS Core now based directly off upstream vendor rather than going the CentOS route. ClearOS Enterprise will in future be based of ClearOS Core.

ClearFoundation develops ClearOS, a Linux Network, Gateway, Server.

» Linuxaria – Everything about GNU/Linux and Open source Monit – your best employee

John Allen — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:48:38 +0000

» Linuxaria – Everything about GNU/Linux and Open source Monit – your best employee.

VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Squeeze Server | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

John Allen — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:40:30 +0000

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless Debian Squeeze 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.

via VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Squeeze Server | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.

Debian Squeeze as an OpenZV Template | Shadows of epiphany

John Allen — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:40:40 +0000

OpenVZ is used for Virtualization and is both light weight (minimal software on the host, guests have small footprints on the hard drive, and minimal use of RAM) and fast (native speed).

Although I have been using Ubuntu as an OpenVZ guest, I have decided to give Debian a try.

Debian has a few advantages and Debian Squeeze seems “stable enough”.

via Debian Squeeze as an OpenZV Template | Shadows of epiphany.

ShipIt comes to an end « Canonical Blog

John Allen — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:14:43 +0000

It’s with some regret that we are announcing the end of the ShipIt Programme and the CD distributor programme. When we started ShipIt in 2005 broadband was still a marketing promise even in the most connected parts of the most developed nations. We knew that this represented a significant stumbling block to the adoption of a new technology like Ubuntu. So we invested in making the CDs free and freely delivered to anywhere in the world. Since then we have shipped millions of CDs to every country in the world and brought Ubuntu into the lives of millions of individuals, we hope making them a little better.

via ShipIt comes to an end « Canonical Blog.

Paravirtualization With Xen 4.0 On Debian Squeeze (AMD64) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

John Allen — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:01:55 +0000

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 4.0 on a Debian Squeeze (6.0) system (AMD64) and create paravirtualized guests (don’t mix this up with fully virtualized guests, i.e. hardware virtualization (HVM)).

Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called “virtual machines” or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers’ web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware. This saves money, and what is even more important, it’s more secure. If the virtual machine of your DNS server gets hacked, it has no effect on your other virtual machines. Plus, you can move virtual machines from one Xen server to the next one.

via Paravirtualization With Xen 4.0 On Debian Squeeze (AMD64) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.

FreeBSD 8.0 ISO images

John Allen — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:09:59 +0000

FreeBSD AMD64 8.0

FreeBSD i386 8.0

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) freeze postponed

John Allen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:32:48 +0000

The proposed freeze of Debian 6.0 in Dec 09, has been postponed till Mar 2010, and while this is disappointing, I’m glad they postponed it.

I don’t want Debian to become Ubuntu. The solid, rather than regular releases are far better, and hopefully we’ll get a 2.6.33 or newer kernel too.