Free Software Linux

Installing FreeSWITCH is fairly easy if you follow the FreeSWITCH Download & Installation Guide. But the instructions are not step-by-step. Following is an attempt to rectify this. More here

We have two databases open source environment that is very reliable, namely PostgreSQL and MySQL. Both these databases have some significant differences either, PostgreSQL is an Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMB). While MySQL is RDMS. More here

In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. 
The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX. More here

I have chosen Debian for the operating system of choice to load on the embedded hardware because of my prior experience with it and because it is a free distribution that continues to be actively maintained and supported

Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. More here

For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web based tools like phpMyAdmin which will also be installed in this howto. phpMyAdmin is a comfortable graphical interface which means you do not have to mess around with the command line.

Actually Debian has the python-wxgtk2.8 package which you can simply apt-get if you wish to have it installed as part of Python 2.5 which is the stable version for Lenny. I’m adding wxPython 2.8 to Python 2.6, which I installed from source. More here

I mostly followed what the official wxPython installation guide says. It was not a smooth installation for me, so this is my own installation note. The version is 2.8.10.1.

I was looking for a way to easily share documents between machines, since WebDAV shares can be accessed by Windows, Linux or Mac machines out of the box, I choose WebDAV over SSL More here

I don’t use SSL for anything so WebDAV is served from DocumentRoot. I’ve been using it for a few days, so far it beats carrying USB sticks around.

After a fresh installation of Debian Lenny, I wanted to use a quite very recent version of VirtualBox. One solution is the Debian backports : Here are the VirtualBox packages available More here

I’m doing some comparative analysis of various distributed non-relational databases and consequently wrestled with the installation of Riak on a server running Debian Lenny. More here

I relied upon the standard “erlang” debian package, which installs cleanly on a basically bare system without a hitch (as one would expect).

Maybe you had this problem already: you use Debian or Ubuntu Linux and a software package that you like to install is only available in RPM format. The solution is a handy tool called alien, which converts .rpm files to .deb. Installing alien: More here

This short guide shows how to authenticate Apache 2 with Radius on Debian More here

A great Utility for Ubuntu / Debian Users. Miro is a free, open source, video player and podcast client It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts. More here

Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

You never know what is dirtying up your Linux system. Your Bash history, temporary files, usage history, clipboard, free disk space…there’s always a chance something is there that you don’t want. But how do you go through it all More here

Bleachbit easily clears out free space, removes junk, and helps to guard your privacy. Bleachbit goes beyond just deleting files. You can set this tool up to shred your files as well…so when they are gone, they are really GONE!

X Rezise and Rotare (xrandr) is a utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. It is a command line utility. so if your display disappeared ?? More here

Notes taken from another blog post on installing xen 3.2 on Lenny. More here

Some of you might know Nagios, some of you might not. Nagios is a network and server monitoring system. It’s open source and widely used (at least that’s my impression). I now use Nagios to monitor all of my network, and my server it self. More here

It’s my impression that most people install Nagios by downloading af tarball and do: `./configure && make && make install`. However, I might be wrong. Unless it the only option, I think that it is a bad way to install software.