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Debian: The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename 'squeeze')
HowToForge: mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups.
Debian: The funding campaign was so successful that the book is even published under not one but two free licenses (GPL-2+ and CC-BY-SA-3).
HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 to encrypt your data.
After a successful campaign to liberate the English translation of the French Debian Administrator's Handbook, Roland Mas and Raphaël Hertzog announced its availability under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. You can read it online, download it for free, apt-get install debian-handbook if you're using Debian, or buy a physical copy (or donate for an electronic version). I skimmed through it, and discovered a few debconf and libvirt tricks I hadn't known about within a few minutes. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
HowtoForge: This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a Debian Squeeze system.
LinuxBSDos: One edition of Linux Mint Debian released a few days ago, features two desktop environments – MATE and Cinnamon.
Debian: These days, more and more computing is being moved away from user computers to the so-called'cloud' a vague term often used to refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
LinuxBSDos.com: Though the default disk partitioning scheme works, you may find yourself in a situation that requires creating partitions manually. At such times, you need to have a good knowledge of disks and disk partitions in Linux to create the partitions you need.
HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how you can manage your remote web site from your local Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 desktop with sitecopy.
HowToForge: WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP.
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 201204 "Debian" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 201204. This release features three of the best Linux desktops available at the moment: The traditional and functional MATE 1.2 desktop, the innovative and beautiful Cinnamon....
HowtoForge: "SPDY (pronounced 'SPeeDY') is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web."
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can configure DNSSEC on BIND9 (version 9.7.3 that comes with Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10) on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 11.10."
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Debian Squeeze."
Softpedia: "Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 RC comes packed in two editions, one with the MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4 desktop environments and the other one with the lightweight Xfce 4.8 desktop environment."
The PowerBase: "So, you just had to go overboard with your PPA's, didn't you?"
LinuxBSDos.com: "Where other VoIP services and clients send data in the clear, Jitsi sets itself apart by making use of ZRTP to set up secure communication with SRTP, Secure Real-time Transport Protocol."
HowtoForge: "Horde is a groupware suite that offers email, calendar, task, contact management and more things."
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Debian Squeeze server."
XDA-Developers: Many devices can actually run several distributions of Linux.
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Debian Squeeze."
HowtoForge: "In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Squeeze server with munin and monit."
JavaCodeGeeks: A fast and minimal configuration of how to turn a Debian GNU/Linux box to a Git server that supports read and write actions via HTTP(S).
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can install and run Feng Office (Community Edition) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache."
Phoronix: The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project has been quite interesting as one of the official Debian operating system ports.
Debian: Debian recognizes the threat that patents pose to Free Software, and continues to work with others in the Free Software community on patent defense.
Ubuntu Vibes: "Raspberry Pi Foundation has released first SD card image for $25 computers that will go on sale on February 20."
HowtoForge: "This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel."