While working on my new server configuration I needed to be able to check to see what packages I had instaled to know what I will need to add to the instructions I was following. While doing so I found a neat little trick I thought I would share with you.

To create the list use this command.


After creating the list it will be located in the root home directory folder of the user you used to create it. So you can veiw the file with the following command.


If you would like to compare two lists I would sugest using the You must be registered to view this link program/package.

You can download it now, but the real deal is not for another week or so. The newest "long term support" version of Ubuntu will be released within the month! Personally I have been running the "precise" release of Ubuntu for more than a month and can say that there will be a lot of worthwhile changes to come. You can download at the following locations.

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The release schedule;

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Another thing that makes me proud to run Linux is the fact that Linus is still in active development after all this time. You can check for yourself at the following link.

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Lately I have totally gave up on Window$, for the last month or so the only thing I have been running on my computer(/server) has been Ubuntu. While I have been hacking hard on Ubuntu the last couple months I have been noticing a few limitations in the way the software itself is designed and the packages provided. Honestly I almost find it hard to believe how far behind everyone else Ubuntu is in terms of development, and I have no idea why either. I have been noticing how much of the code I run on my server I needed to manually compile to do what I needed it to do whereas other distributions already have what I need in their repo's...

The straw that finally broke the camel's back was this; You must be registered to view this link which would be exactly what I would need to watch Netflix. (in theory, as Ubuntu is not listed as a supported OS) Visiting Netflix on a Ubuntu machine (11.10+all-extras) will promptly leave you staring at the picture I have attached below.

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Just thought I would mention to everyone looking for more understanding of the Ubuntu operating system and all of the programs available in the repositories thereof. If there is something that is perplexing you the first place I would recommend looking is the "manpages" the Ubuntu man-pages contain samples, commands, and a lot of other useful information to help you do whatever it is you want to do with this powerful system.


For example one "manpage" that you will almost certainly want to bookmark is the "Bash manpage"

Another good example if you ever have one of those dreaded Grub2 errors is the "Grub ManPage"

This forum is here for you! If you gotta question, or maybe just a comment feel free to sign up and post!

At this point I am more worried about the success of this website to worry about spam, or really anything that is posted here. The only thing I ask is that anything you post is worded in a way that it can be discussed here. I absolutely do not mind if you post a link to your website here to talk about and promote Especially if you are just promoting a blog, or something interesting that is free. At this point I will even allow commercial links as long as they are meant to be discussed and do not seem over-advertised or over-linked. Personally I am very good with websites and can offer you a lot of insight about your-own, so feel free to ask!

The general subject nature of this forum is "Open Source Software" but don't let that fool you into thinking that is the only thing you can talk about here. There is a "general discussion" section you are abl ...

So do you want to set up a web server? Setting up a web server is a fairly easy thing to do in this post I will give some help to get an Apache web server running for anyone that might be interested. The information here will not help you if IIS7 is what you want to use for your web server. Apache will be the basis of instruction contained here due to it's superior security, ease of use, and cost of ownership over Microsoft IIS.

Apache is best when installed on a Linux operating system, so if you are unfamiliar with Linux/Unix operating systems I would recommend that you check out some of the other threads here on this forum. This tutorial will assume that you have a rough understanding of how to install Ubuntu and how to use terminal commands. I plan on adding a lot of instructional material to this forum to help people that do not know a lot about the Ubuntu/Debian operating system and how to use it for enterprise level networking.

So to start this tutorial on how to set up a web ...

I found an awesome tutorial explaining how to install Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Ubuntu or any Debain derivative using WINE. This is an absolutely awesome tutorial that I will be attempting myself.


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The narrator certainly has a voice though!! haha! Should be doing horror films!

This time around it is serious, Anonymous hacked Facebook, and this is a pretty big worm, from what I have been seeing. Basically, they are saying that this worm will bypass any app privacy settings, basically take control of your profile, and it seems it can wreak havoc on your Windows based computers, key logging, access to hard drives, and complete control of your system. If you need to access FB from a desktop system, my recommendation would be to use a Linux based system, like Ubuntu. It's hard to say how far they are going to take this, but I am not taking my chances. I will get the video links up in a few.


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Samba is a fairly easy to set up utility used for file-sharing on Lunix/Unix systems. Most people are afraid of the complexity of it to set it up, however it is actually really easy. In the following video made by kaltag @ OCF you will find that setting up Samba on Ubuntu is nothing to be scared of.


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Also I will include the instructions you will need to enter here.

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Then edit, to include the folders you want to share. ("guest ok" if you don't want a password on the folder you add/edit.)




(Almost done) Even if you don't want passwords you need to add one.



Finally, restart samba.


Done!

Have you ever asked the question "What is Open Source?" or have you ever heard of this thing called "Open Source" it is hard to explain. In this short article I hope to explain to you what Open Source is and how you can use it to learn from it. Open Source is not really a person, place, or thing either but is more or less a mentality and structure that brings people with common interests together. If you have never heard or noticed this thing called "Open Source" you really are missing out, it has almost certainly effected things that you may use on an everyday basis.

One of the most common misconceptions of "Open Source" is that it is inclusive only to computer software, however that is not the case; Open Source can be any idea or thing that is openly discussed among common peers. As I mentioned earlier, you should really think of Open Source as more of a mentality than a thing. This mentality is a sharing and 'open' mentality that almost alway ...