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LinuxCon and ELC Europe Keynotes Revealed

The Linux Foundation announced keynote speakers for LinuxCon + CloudOpen + Embedded Linux Conference Europe, to be held Oct. 13-15 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Like last year, the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon Europe is being co-located with CloudOpen Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, with a single registration. This year the shows are joined even closer with […]

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Red Hat Delivers Beta of Satellite 6 Admin Toolset

If you happen to manage a Red Hat Enpterprise Linux (RHEL) envronment, you may want to download Red Hat’s new Satellite 6 beta version of its management solution. It’s now available here. You can also find an informational video on it here.

It offers simplified system provisioning, configuration oversight, patch management and content management features.

According to Red Hat:

“Red Hat’s latest beta release of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems management solution delivers dramatic improvements across system provisioning, configuration management, content management, and overall scalability and security. Red Hat Satellite 6 is now ready to download and test, sharing your feedback with Red Hat as you work through the testing process.”

 

 


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10 Important Facts About Data Storage in the Enterprise

Most companies use costly storage for infrequently accessed data. Here’s a look at the state of data storage and what to do with all those petabytes.

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HOW TO SETUP YOUR OWN MAIL SERVER WITH ANTI-SPAM CONFIGURATION

Introduction

This tutorial will teach you how to set up your own robust email server. We are focusing on a small personal server with up to a few email accounts. After following this guide, you will have a fully functional mail server and you can connect with your favourite client to access, read and send emails. The Anti-Spam configuration will drop unwanted messages.

This tutorial will use yourdomain.com as domain name and mail.yourdomain.com as hostname for our mail server. The desired email address will be This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
. We assume that our server has the IP address 1.2.3.4.

Software and technologies used

  • Postfix v2.9.6 as SMTP server
  • Dovecot v2.0.19 as IMAP server
  • We will use Unix user accounts and tunnel the SASL authentication through TLS
  • Postgrey v1.34 – to reject spam from the beginning
    (more about postgrey)
  • SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validating to reduce spam
    (more aboutSPF)
  • SPF DNS entry to prevent spoofing
  • DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) to sign our email messages
    (moreabout DKIM)

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Testing Btrfs On The Linux 3.16 Kernel

When running my initial Linux 3.16 file-system tests on an SSD I had to skip over Btrfs due to initial problems with the experimental kernel code. Fortunately, Btrfs has been fixed-up in Linux 3.16 and can now serve for some benchmarking.

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Managing Passwords the Open Source Way

At this point, I have more usernames and passwords to juggle than any person should ever have to deal with. I know I’m not alone, either. We have a surfeit of passwords to manage, and we need a good way to manage them so we have easy access without doing something silly like writing them down where others might find them. Being a fan of simple apps, I prefer using pass, a command line password manager.

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Install Ajenti Control Panel on CentOS, RedHat and Fedora

Ajenti is a web based control panel for managing systems (like: Webmin, cPanel). It has a very beautiful and user-friendly interface. For personal use Ajenti is freely available for under AGPLv3. For commercial use you have to pay for a small amount regularly.

Below article article will help you to install Ajenti control panel on CentOS, Redhat and Fedora systems.

http://tecadmin.net/install-ajenti-control-panel-on-centos-redhat-fedora/

Mandriva Pulse now on Univention Corporate Server

Univention, the manufacturer of the Linux Distribution Univention Corporate Server, and Mandriva, the supplier of the IT asset management solution Mandriva Pulse, have started a new strategic partnership leading to the expansion of the Univention App Center with Mandriva’s popular Open Source solution Mandriva Pulse.

All information on Mandriva Pulse and UCS including a demo film about the synergies can be found at:

http://www.univention.com/mandriva-pulse

LG is the First Smartphone Maker to Join Google’s Open Automotive Alliance

“Android Everywhere” was the theme of Google I/O this year, and one of the new frontiers the company is tackling is the car. That’s not a brand-new focus, however — back at CES, Google announced the Open Automotive Alliance, its attempt at getting both automakers and technology companies on the same page. The latest company to join up with the alliance is LG — while a number of companies like Panasonic and Nvidia sit alongside automakers like Audi and Honda, LG marks the first handset maker to put its weight behind Google’s initiative.

Google hasn’t yet released details on what specific handsets will work with Android Auto — but it seems like a safe bet that LG’s future smartphones will work with the new system. And if the company keeps…

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Microsoft Backs Open Source for the Internet of Things

Microsoft has joined what began as a Linux Foundation effort to create an open platform for the Internet of Things. It’s a move that may be a telling sign regarding Microsoft’s plans for home automation, and even for the Xbox.

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