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If you want to have a server with multiple installations of Wordpress maybe for your family and friends, and want to be sure it will support the load now, and any future load if one or more of the hosted blogs become popular. Then, you want to prepare the infrastructure to be able to handle a big load.

LXDE is a desktop environment, which aims the low-performance hardware and old computers. However, you can use it on with modern computers and accessories too, making them flashing fast. LXLE is an Ubuntu based distribution using LXDE desktop with the LTS kernel. It has some added features not found in Lubuntu. We will try to mimic them in Debian.

Which one should you choose if you are planning to setup a Web Server. Debian or CentOS? Here some points to consider.

The value of free software is a lot more than just monetary, it is actually an incredible tool that helps small developers all over to world to achieve their goals.

Ubuntu is not a consensus-based community. Consensus communities rarely work, and I am not aware of any Open Source project that bases their work on wider consensus in the community. It would be impossible and impractical to notify our community of every decision we make, let alone try to base a decision on a majority view, but we do try to ensure that major changes are communicated to our leaders first (this is something we have been driving improvements in recently). We always need to find the right balance between transparency and JFDI, and sometimes the balance isn’t quite there, but that does not mean there is some kind of illuminati-ish scheme going on behind the scenes.

An Open Letter to Richard Stallman, proposing to name the GNU/Linux just GNix, to make it easier to say, and to write. Instead of the long GNU/Linux or the plain Linux where GNU gets no credit.

Quo Vadis Ubuntu? Is Ubuntu following the same steps that Microsoft and Apple?

And if that is true, is that really an issue?

It’s been years since I’ve used Windows on my own computer. But my wife, well, that’s a different story. She’s not the kind of user who likes how “hard” is to use my machines running Debian or Arch. So I had Windows installed for her on the home PC and on her laptop. I was constantly cleaning, re-installing, fighting viruses, etc. due to Windows’ infamous weaknesses in these areas. Well, a year ago, when she needed to travel to Buenos Aires for six months, I had Ubuntu 11.10 installed on her laptop alongside Windows, and asked her to see if she could use just Ubuntu, reassuring her that this way she wouldn’t have to worry about getting it fixed because it wouldn’t be able to break. Her basic needs for the laptop were Skype (to stay in touch), Gmail, Office documents (via LibreOffice), and browsing the internet.

I can say, at least is my opinion, that despite the fact that a some Netflix engineers may want to see Netflix on Linux this is not going to happen.

Arch Linux is Simple. Arch Linux is "easy".

Read this review to know more about Arch Linux. Once you meet Arch Linux, you'll never look back.

If you put just a little effort in your server configuration to support Wordpress. It can easily handle big amount of visitors, without the need to spend too much money on the server. It's all about caching. In this approach I focus on the server, Wordpress remains standard and vanilla. No addition of any cache tools in Wordpress side.

scp stands for secure cp (copy), which means you can copy files across ssh connection. That connection will be securely encrypted, it is a very secure way to copy files between computers You can use scp to copy files from or to a remote server. You can also copy files from one remote server to another remote server, without passing traffic through your PC. You can use scp on Linux, Mac and Windows

"This is a small manual of iptables, I’ll show some basic commands, you may need to know to keep your computer secure." This article is a small compendium of my most used iptables command, and a compilation of some of my previous posts about iptables.

Small VPS if well configured can easily handle big sites, even if they are powered by CMS platforms like Drupal. It may worth the time to make a good configuration when starting a new site, you will be able to save money at the end of the day. Read here how Varnish can help you do just that.

If you need to run a command every X minutes or hours, you can use cron, and here is a small guide to it.

This month Arch Linux is turning 10: "I can only add Thanks Judd for this great piece of software, and to all the contributors out there, thank you too for your time and effort, making Arch Linux one of the most used Linux Distributions."

Two days ago, Google announced that now, using Chrome, you can use Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs while off-line. This is something specially good for Chromebooks, now they are not just new toys, they can be real productive tools.

If you are a Linux geek, and you want to start your own blog, you will want to do it "The Linux way". Here are some tools you may need to start it.

"...At least in my opinion, a review of something, being it a movie, a Linux distribution, or even a Hotel, the review should be written in such a way, that a reader can have a good idea of what he is going to find, once he decided to test the reviewed object by himself..."