So what if Ubuntu is a fast operating system?… There is always room for some more tweaking… and I am talking here about some aspects that are NOT useful for the end-users (yes YOU, the regular Ubuntu user). The hacks presented in this guide will greatly improve the overall performance of your Ubuntu 8.04 Linux OS.
This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.
This tutorial shows how to configure Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) and Samba to act as a primary domain controller (PDC) that uses LDAP as a centralized database for authenticating users on Linux and Windows desktops.
2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we’ve seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install.
This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) based server that offers DNS services. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but should apply to the 64-bit version.
This document describes how to install the Internet Explorer (different versions) on Ubuntu 8.04 with IEs4Linux. Some users – especially web developers/designers need different versions of the Internet Explorer to test their pages.
f you install Ubuntu from the live cd or alternate install cd, the ‘generic’ kernel would be installed by default. The ‘generic’ kernel focuses on i586 and i686 CPU architectures. But if you have a newer CPU, like Pentium 4 HT, Dual Core or Core2Duo, you might want to install the ‘server’ kernel to improve your PC performance. The ‘server’ kernel focuses on i686 architectures and posses some unique advantages over ‘generic’ kernel in case of task management. Here is the steps to switch to server kernel.