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Configuring storage in FreeNAS
An excerpt from Hungry Pengiun's book Learning FreeNAS has been published by Linux.com. The excerpt is called "Configuring storage in FreeNAS"... Here is an excerpt from the excerpt!!!
The essence of the FreeNAS server is to provide storage that is easily accessible from the network. To this end, it is important to understand how FreeNAS handles hard disks and how they can be configured and used to provide the best and most reliable storage for your network.
Go one and read the excerpt Configuring storage in FreeNAS
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Hungry Penguin's PC-BSD 7 review
I (Hungry Penguin) have written another article for Linux.com, this time about PC-BSD.
Until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the PC-BSD project was started to provide just that. This month PC-BSD version 7 was released. I downloaded and installed it to see how it squares up to user-friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu.
I had high expectations of PC-BSD, as much is said of FreeBSD's stability and security, and having used FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD, I knew that FreeBSD has lots to offer... Follow the link below to see what I found out.
Read more here.
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LearnFreeNAS.com
Hi,
To coincide with the release of my "Learning FreeNAS" book I have started a new website LearnFreeNAS.com.
It is a one stop site for tips, articles, tutorials and videos about FreeNAS the Open Source Network Attached Storage OS.
Thanks,
THP |
Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros
The Hungry Penguin's latest article “Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros” has been published on Linux.com.
In the article I review the mini-distros DSL and PuppyLinux and also the full desktop distributions PendriveLinux, Ubuntu and Mandriva Flash.
I also posted a comment/update with a quick look at Fedora 9 USB Live.
You can read the review here. |
File Synchronization with Unison
Linuxjournal.com have an interesting HOWTO on File Synchronization with Unison |
Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All
The folks over at LinuxJournal.com are publishing a list of the all-time favorite articles ever featured on their web site. They will feature the top 25 in this series, presenting us with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com.
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SCO gives up... Almost...
The SCO Group, best known for suing IBM about Linux, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This was widely predicted even during the failed IBM law suit, but the timing as left some surprised as many expected SCO to run out of cash at the beginning of this year.
You can read more over at Hi-Tech Squad. |
A few more new sites I have been working
The thing I love about open source is the vast number of turnkey solutions that are available free... free as in beer and free was in speech. If you have an idea for a web site it can quickly be turned into a reality using open source projects. Here are a few sites I have been working on and they are all powered by open source starting at the server with Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP:
- Dirstop.com - An web directory powered by the open source application "php Link Directory"
- www.glowdir.com - This is similar to Dirstop.com and is also running on "php Link Directory"
- Bonkersnews.com is a weird and odd news site. Although it is a custom script, it is written in the open source language of PHP.
Finally, I have also started another blog called "Review My Site".
Thanks,
THP |
Custom NimbleX 2 RC2 has been released
Custom NimbleX 2 allows you to generate your customized Linux distribution by choosing what packages you want to have. The only requirements from the users are knowledge of English, a web browser (Firefox) and a CD for burning the ISO that was generated.
You can read more here: Custom NimbleX 2 RC2 released
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New Look Linux.com
Linux.com have updated their website with a new look and feel... It also seems has if they have changed their URL structure... This means that many of my past articles have changed their URL... Here is an updated list:
Controlling your Linux system processes
CentOS 5 is a solid enterprise OS
Getting started with the CentOS 4.4 Single Server CD
A look at the FreeNAS server
LDAP in the enterprise
Thanks,
THP |
Controlling your Linux system processes
I have had another article published by Linux.com: Controlling your Linux system processes
All modern operating systems are able to run many programs at the same time. For example, a typical Linux server might include a Web server, an email server, and probably a database service. Each of these programs runs as a separate process. What do you do if one of your services stops working? Here are some handy command-line tools for managing processes.
Thanks,
THP
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Didn't I mention my lens at Squidoo
Looking back over my blog entries it seems that I haven't mentioned by lens over at Squidoo.
It is called Linux Expert and there is some basic stuff about Linux and more links to find out more!
Thanks,
THP |
CentOS 5 is a solid enterprise OS
Recently, two years since its last major release, the CentOS project released version 5 of its enterprise-focused Linux distribution. I downloaded it and put it to the test, and found that CentOS 5 has maintained its tradition of robustness and reliability while adding new features like virtualization.
Read more at CentOS 5 is a solid enterprise OS
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Receiving remote X connections on OS X
I recently needed to display an application from my Linux box to a Mac OS X machine. The Apple X server was running and working OK for local X apps but I couldn't get remote applications to display.
Well it turned out that like SuSE (see Receiving remote X connections) remote connections are disabled by default.
So for OS X to enable remote X connections you need to configure the display server to accept incoming network connections. The nolisten_tcp setting controls this. It must be set to false in order to accept connections.
To do this you use the Mac OS X user defaults system. Use defaults write to change a setting. Type the following in a terminal:
defaults write com.apple.x11 nolisten_tcp -boolean false
Remember, false enables incoming connections, true disables connections. Use the boolean values instead of their numeric counterparts.
Thanks,
THP |
CentOS 4.4 Single Server CD
There is a great article over at Linux.com about the CentOS 4.4 Single Server CD... Of course I am biased as I wrote it!!!
Getting started with the CentOS 4.4 Single Server CD
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