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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.

ha/doozerd – GitHub

John Allen — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:15:21 +0000

ha/doozerd – GitHub.

OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

John Allen — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:17:22 +0000

Backed by Rackspace, NASA, Dell, Citrix, Cisco, Canonical and over 50 other organizations, OpenStack has grown to be a global software community of developers, technologists, researchers and corporations collaborating on a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating system. Our mission is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware.

via OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software.

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.

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

John Allen — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:23:32 +0000

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome.

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.

Xfce 4.8 updates open source Linux desktop

John Allen — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:31:17 +0000

Xfce 4.8 updates open source Linux desktop

Alioth: Welcome

John Allen — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:29:27 +0000

Alioth: Welcome.