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C.3. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
For new users, personal Debian boxes, home systems, and other single-user setups, a single / partition (plus swap) is probably the easiest, simplest way to go. However, if your partition is larger than around 6GB, choose ext3 as your partition type. Ext2 partitions need periodic file system integrity checking, and this can cause delays during booting when the partition is large.
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Securing Debian Manual - Introduction
Firestarter is an Open Source visual firewall program. The software aims to combine ease of use with powerful features, therefore serving both Linux desktop users and system administrators. Every time firestarter starting GUI it will prompt for root password may be this is bit difficult for this you can do the following steps to avoid password. Finally you need to add firestarter to startup programs list from system---> Preferences--->Sessions you should see the following screen in this you need to click on startup programs and click on add you should see a popup box prompting for startup command in this you need to enter the following command and click ok two times.
Secure Ubuntu Desktop Using Firestarter Firewall
Ubuntu (Gutsy): DynDNS Client Setup « Ivan Torres (mexpolk)
We, need to change the ddclient configuration file ( /etc/ddclient.conf ) in order to use ssh to send the username and password, and to properly check the IP adrress. From the command line open ddclient configuration: $ sudo vim /etc/ddclient.conf In the generated configuration file you’ll probably see something like the following (The parts in italics will be different, the bold parts are going to change so special attention on this):
Once you use the apt-get utility to install a package, sometimes it seems to disappear into nowhere. You know it’s installed, you just have no idea where. If you know the name of the executable, you can use the which command to find the location of the binary, but that doesn’t give you information on where the supporting files might be located. Well, now I don’t have to wonder anymore. The conf file is clearly /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf.
See Where a Package is Installed on Ubuntu - How-To Geek
How to setup a Ubuntu development server - Part 1
Since I'm starting some real work on my final school project, I want to install a Ubuntu development server here at home. I have a Pentium 4 box here that will perform that task. In this first part I will show you how to install Subversion over WebDAV. All of this will be done in such a way that it's easy to serve multiple projects at once. In future parts I will tell you more about installing Trac, FastCGI (with Apache) to host Rails applications and how to use Capistrano to deploy your app properly.
As a follow up to my previous post which gave an overview of various security technologies that can help greatly fortify Linux against attacks, I decided to provide a little tutorial aimed at putting one of these technologies to practice. Specifically, I will give an overview of how to use the Mandatory Access Control system known as AppArmor.
Tutorial: Secure Ubuntu With AppArmor - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net
Dear all, I have an nvidia card (9400, i believe) in my 13.3" macbook pro and am frequently changing my monitor setup, i.e. at my office and at home i have an additional 22" monitor hooked up to the dvi port (actually apples weird port with a dvi connector) while on the road I have not. I don't have the twin view configuration set in the xorg.conf config file as this behaves funny if you don't have a second monitor connected (your mouse cursor and windows might be beyond what you can see on the small monitor). So what I do each time that I connect an external monitor is to run the GUI of the nvidia-settings tool and enable twin view for the external monitor and position it where I want it. Annnooooyyyying!!! especially if you do it several times a day.
[all variants] Dynamic twin view with nvidia-settings from the command line? - Ubuntu Forums
Overview This article is part one of a two part series that covers setting up a hosting server using gitosis for your central repository, and in the next article, taking an existing SVN repository and running the appropriate scripts and commands necessary to migrate it into something git can work with. So this article is how to setup and manage a git repository. There are some great services out there than can do this for you, but why pay money for something you can easily do for free? This article shows how to setup and manage a secure and private git repository that people can use as a central sharing point. Setting Up Gitosis
Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Your Distro is Insecure: Ubuntu | Linux Magazine
Ubuntu Server has one of the cleanest and easiest Linux distribution installers. However, in many cases, its designers choose to ignore security in favor of ease-of-use. The result? An install that is not secure by default.