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  Wanted to test out Nginx, I heard that it is very lightweight and fast.   Do a basic installation of Centos 6   Make sure that everything is up to date. # yum update   Enable Additional Repositories # rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt  # rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm If above doesn't work then go to the ..

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  So you want to install MariaDB 5.5 on Centos 6 x86_64. This is the process I used. MariaDB can be a replacement for MySQL.   Login to Centos 6 server you want to install MariaDB. Create a repo file. # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo and add the information below. [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64 gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB ..

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Installation and setup of Joli-OS 1.2.1   Running this on my Mac Mini, MacOSX 10.8.2   Download ISO image from http://www.jolicloud.com/jolios   Once the ISO image is downloaded. Then lets setup the virtual. Since Joli-OS is based on Ubuntu 32-bit , so we will base the configuration on that.   Startup VMware Fusion and create a ..

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Debian 6 Download ISO from Debian, click here   Debian 6 setup and configuration Do a default install, or change to your requirements.   Update server # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade Install sudo # apt-get install sudo   Static IP address setup Edit the nano /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on ..

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Do a basic installation of Centos 6 Normally I will go with the defaults.   Once the server is installed, make sure and do all updates. # yum update click the enter key.   You will need to install Apache, PHP and MySQL # yum install httpd php php-mysql mysql-server mysql-client click the enter key.   ..

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For a GUI installation use PCBSD (Tried and like) or DesktopBSD (Have not tried). For server installations use the regular FreeBSD Some of the options below cover both PCBSD and FreeBSD   PC-BSD updating and installing software with Freebsd ports Make sure you have /usr/ports/security/portaudit and /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade installed.   If you want to install a application, ..

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OpenVZ container based Virtualization is easier on system resources compared to full virtualization. Performance seems much better than full virtualization. So here are the steps I took for the setup on Centos 6 X86_64.   1. Do a minimal Centos 6 x86_64 installation. Click here to download the minimal install ISO.   2. Do all ..

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I was testing out this virtual solution as I am always interested to see how other company's setup virtualization. I have been using VMware and VirtualBox for a long time. Of course the setup below it just a test setup and you can take it a lot farther then I have.   Proxmox VE 2 ..

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If you are using Ubuntu or one of the Ubuntu based Linux Distro's you may not want to install or see that there is a new release version.   What I found is that if you update a Ubuntu based distro's with the new release version it could break some of the custom changes the ..

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Want to get some more performance from Firefox Start up Firefox Type in  about:config where your URL would normally go. Click on I'll be careful, I promise! In filter type, type in pipelining Double click on network.http.pipelining which turns the entry to True. Double click on network.http.pipelining.maxrequests change the entry to 8. Double click on network.http.pipelining.ssl which turns the entry ..

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