As most of you know, Ubuntu 8.10 is set to be released next week.
As usual at Ubuntu upgrade time, we’re here to help with questions and issues.
Drop us a line at support@imapenguin.com anytime.
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Help in upgrading to Ununtu 8.10
Friday, October 24th, 2008We’re switching to passenger
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Mongrel has served us well for the past year or so, but the simplicity of deployment in passenger along with the ever reliable apache has lured us into extensive testing. We’re getting slightly better performance numbers from passenger over mongrel with about 2/3 of the memory footprint. Please let us know at support@imapenguin.com if you see any wonkyness with any of our services. As we migrate over night.
Logical Volume Manager(LVM) Primer
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Ever wonder what the mystery behind Logical Volume Manager is on your Linux box? Linux.com has a primer on LVM that’s worth 2 mins of your time.
Quick and Dirty RAID 1 on CentOS 5.2
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Had this question a couple of times this week so we decided to do a quick screencast. In this setup, there are 3 SCSI drives:
sda = 20GB
sdb = 40GB
sdc = 40GB
The OS will be installed on the sda as / and the 2 40GB drives will be setup as RAID 1 and mounted as /vmware
Need help with your setup? Email us at support@imapenguin.com.
We’re still playing with the resolution settings on Vimeo, the source video will be available for download soon…
Ubuntu Ruby Vulnerabilities Officially Patched
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Ubuntu pushed patches for the aforementioned Ruby vulnerabilities last night. apt-get to get them in a snap. Thanks for the quick response Ubuntu team!
Nate’s How-To Update Ubuntu Servers to Close Ruby Vulnerabilities
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Nate Clark is right. The risk of the recently announced Ruby vulnerabilities may or may not be high, but let’s not take any chances.
He’s done a quick and good how to on upgrading Ubuntu servers. Check it out. Nate Rules.
CentOS 5.2 Released
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
New stuff includes Firefox 3, Thunderbird 2, OpenOffice.org 2.3 and Evolution 2.12 on the Desktop side, Samba 3.0.28, xen-3.2 and an upgraded kernel with lots of driver updates on the server side of the system.
Grab it from centos.org and email us at support@imapenguin.com if you need help installing or upgrading.
Ubuntu 8.04 this week
Monday, April 21st, 2008Email us at support@imapenguin.com if you need help upgrading.
Ubuntu 8.04 Beta working well for us
Thursday, April 10th, 2008We’re active open source developers and we’ve upgraded some laptops and a server to help look for bugs in the software we often use. Both the server and desktop versions of Ubuntu 8.04 have been very stable for us thus far. We’ll be providing support for upgrades as usual, but it’s normally pretty trivial to upgrade from one version to the next.
Connecting to Apple Remote Desktop from Ubuntu
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Apple uses the tightvnc protocol for remote desktop. So install tightvnc:
sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
Then update your default programs to use it instead of what’s included in Ubuntu Desktop:
sudo update-alternatives --set vncviewer /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer
That’s it. In ubuntu’s RDP client, select the vnc protocol when connecting to a mac.