According to this message from Dan Langille, registration for BSDCan is now open. The BSDCan conference this year is once again stuffed full of fantastic speakers from the BSD world including some of the OpenBSD developers and a few OpenBSD specific talks. Just to name a few: Henning...

Highly Available NFS Server Using DRBD And Heartbeat On Debian 5.0 (Lenny) This HowTo explains how I set up a highly available NFS server using Debian 5 (Lenny) and drbd8 with heartbeat. ...

badger.foo writes "The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or other cool stuff before the official release date. You get the chance to s...

Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.7, which is scheduled for release on May 19th, 2010. Fresh from the keyboards of the developers, this release brings us support for a new platform, Loongson, expanded SGI systems support, a large pf rewrite, a collection of new (athn(4), ...

Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10) This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownlo...

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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12 This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across ...

Installation Of ZendOptimizer And IonCubeLoader Using Lighttpd On CentOS This tutorial explains how to enable ZendOptimizer and IonCubeLoader in PHP on a Lighttpd web server on CentOS. ...

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2010.0 x86_64) This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and c...

A short while ago, Marc Espie (espie@) wrote to the ports mailinglist with a short rant about autoconf. His mail gives good insights into the problems porters face when dealing with GNU software, especially those using autoconf. Please read on for Marc's post: Read more... ...