[HowtoForge] Newsletter 12/03/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 12/03/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
* The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME)
* The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
* Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 (LAMP)
* iRedMail 0.5.1: Full-Featured Mail Server With LDAP Postfix RoundCube/SquirrelMail iRedAdmin On Ubuntu 9.04
* Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny
* Expanding A Root-FS
* Adding DNS Servers In One Step With DNS-add

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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 8 (Helena) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 8 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 9.10 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-linux-mint-8-helena

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 12 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-12-i686-gnome

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
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This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 12 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of Fedora 12, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora-12-x86_64-ispconfig-2

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-opensuse-11.2-lamp

iRedMail 0.5.1: Full-Featured Mail Server With LDAP Postfix RoundCube/SquirrelMail iRedAdmin On Ubuntu 9.04
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iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, iRedMail supports Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 (it supports both i386 and x86_64). Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple and easy to use. iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. This tutorial shows how to use the OpenLDAP backend.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/iredmail-0.5.1-full-featured-mail-server-with-ldap-postfix-roundcube-squirrelmail-iredadmin-on-ubuntu-9.04

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny
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iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on Debian Lenny, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-mail-and-ftp-hosting-with-iredmail-and-pure-ftpd-on-debian-lenny

Expanding A Root-FS
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There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root filesystem. The only way to enlarge the root filesystem is to boot from a kind of rescuesystem, Live-CD or the like, and then to expand the root filesystem. The following tutorial describes, how this is achieved by using Systemrescue-CD.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/expanding-a-root-fs

Adding DNS Servers In One Step With DNS-add
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I will present to you a nice tool called DNS-add to add DNS servers to your Unix box, it works with all Linux and Unix machines.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/adding-dns-servers-in-one-step-with-dns-add

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