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Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’: What’s New?

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With its extremely long release cycle (this one took two years), Debian 6.0 Squeeze was rolled out on February 6th, amidst jokes like, "See...

KGDB with VirtualBox: Debug a Live Kernel

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Debugging an application live has always been easy for application developers, but debugging a live kernel has never been a simple option for kernel...

DeleGate — A Multi-platform, Multipurpose Proxy Server

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A proxy server works as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. There are various types of proxy servers. In...

lighttpd & SQLite: A Lightweight Web Server and Database Platform

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This article demonstrates the setting up of a lightweight Web server and database platform, using the lighttpd Web server and the SQLite database management...

CRASH Your System (and Debug Kernel Panic)

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Aimed at Linux kernel developers and just about anybody who would like to debug a kernel panic with the Crash utility, this article assumes...

Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 4: Classes & Modules

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We learned about some of the interesting ways Puppet helps automate things in Part 3. In the final part of this series, we look...

Gitolite: Administer a Central Git Repository without Going Insane

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Over the past few years, centralised version control systems like SVN have steadily given way to distributed systems like Git or Mercurial -- the...

Understanding a Kernel Oops!

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Understanding a kernel panic and doing the forensics to trace the bug is considered a hacker's job. This is a complex task that requires...

Device Drivers, Part 3: Kernel C Extras in a Linux Driver

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This article in the series on Linux device drivers deals with the kernel's message logging, and kernel-specific GCC extensions. Enthused by how Pugs impressed their...

Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 3: Resource Types & Example...

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The previous article in this series focused on creating users, groups and files (based on home directories). Let's now look at the various types...