Bundling Debian 7.x image for OpenStack

30/07/201330/07/2013 Johnson DLeave a comment

The following procedure was tested using Debian 7.1.0 on Grizzly version of OpenStack.

Create an image which emulates the Hard Drive

kvm-img create -f qcow2 debian.img 5G

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Samba – A short guide for sharing files and printers

31/12/201231/12/2012 Johnson DLeave a comment

Introduction

Samba is a service in Unix like operating systems which can be used to share folders across a Windows Network. Samba is a standard service among almost all the Linux distributions.Samba can perform the following operations.

Act as file server among Windows and Linux machines
Act as a printer sharing service
Act as a domain controller for a Windows network
Act as a client under a Windows domain

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CUPS · Debian · Fedora · Linux Distribution · OpenSUSE · Print Server · Ubuntu

Printer sharing using CUPS

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Introduction to CUPS

CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system for UNIX Based operating systems. CUPS stands for Common Unix Print System. It serves as the default print server for almost all the linux distributions. It consists of the following components
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BSD · Debian · Fedora · FreeBSD · Linux Distribution · Ubuntu

Command line Audio Players for FreeBSD and Linux

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A FreeBSD or a Linux system in which GUI is not installed can play audio files with the help the following tools:

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Debian · LAMP · Linux Distribution · Web Server

LAMP server with FFmpeg-PHP on Debian 6

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The following procedure will install a LAMP server with FFmpeg support for PHP on a Debian 6 machine
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