Here on Ghacks I have mentioned a few tools that allow you to create various types of Linux CDs. Most of these tools allow you to create Live CDs that are either images of your current working distribution or tools to create a Live CD with special packages. But none of these tools, so far, [...]

Tags: custom CD, customized Linux, live cd, ubuntu
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced

Recently I covered the front-end of the Gnumed software designed for the medical industry (see “Let your medical practice go open source with Gnumed.”) In that article I showed you how to start working with Gnumed, but limited the installation to using the public servers. Because these public servers can not safely and securely hold [...]

Tags: backend server, gnumed, medical practice server, medical software, postgresql
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software

So many tool require databases. If you are a web administrator or a company with large stores of information, then you know the importance of databases. One of the most oft-used databases available is MySQL. But that is not the only player on the court. Another cross platform object-relational database management tool is PostgreSQL. Many [...]

Tags: database, database user, mysql, postgresql, ubuntu server
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, software

I have written a few articles on Samba here on Ghacks. And most people know how to connect to Samba shares via Windows. Generally speaking (when all is set up correctly) it’s just a matter of opening up Explorer and entering \\ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER\SHARENAME to get to your Samba shares. But what about in Linux? How do [...]

Tags: GNOME, samba, samba shares, smb.conf, smbclient
Categories: Advice, Linux, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Windows, software

The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of.  But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]

Tags: media center, multimedia, video playback
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

Tags: Email, email filtering, Postfix, spam, SPAM scoring
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced

By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]

Tags: anti virus, Postfix, virus definitions
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software