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Automatic Installs Of Turnkey Linux Appliances On Virtual Private Servers

(or How to set up a fully working Joomla, Drupal, LAMP, LAPP, Zimbra, Torrent server etc., in a couple of minutes)

Turnkey Linux comprises a set of free, Ubuntu-based software appliances that are primarily available for server-type usage scenarios, such as setting up database, web, forum, wiki and photo gallery servers. Each appliance is preconfigured to work out of the box, with ease of use being the primary goal behind the Turnkey Linux project.

This is extremely useful in itself, but if you wanted to experiment with these appliances, potentially to evaluate or otherwise test them, it would be great if you could perform installations with the absolute minimum of effort.

A number of hosting providers out there provide Linux VPS services, which usually enable users to have their own virtual server with automatic provisioning of major Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS. GigaTux has been working with the Turnkey Linux team and have managed to take the automatic installation concept one step further to enable this to work with all Turnkey Linux appliances. This is made possible by using frameworks provided by the excellent server open source control panel DTC.

Turnkey Linux appliances enable users to easily deploy primarily web-based applications within an entire Linux kernel and Ubuntu-based package set. Once a distribution is chosen within the control panel, the install is fully completed within a few minutes and ready to be customised. This enables a rapid deployment of a tested setup, with full update and security support provided by the Turnkey Linux and Ubuntu package maintainers.

Our efforts are available to all using the DTC control panel, with Debian packages for Lenny being provided. Additionally, scripts have been written such that when new or updated appliances are released, new deployable packages for the DTC control panel are created and made available in our repository automatically.

It is not actually too difficult to configure images to work for automatic deployment, but performing this manually for every appliance is a time consuming process. The scripts we have written will automatically perform the following steps for each appliance:

It’s as simple as that. If you are interested, you can download the raw scripts. They will need some customisation for your setup as there are hard coded directories in there.

If you are happy playing with just one appliance, you can of course just download it from the Turnkey Linux website and install it on your PC (or use a Virtualisation solution like Xen or VMWare).

However, if you want to rapidly try out a variety of appliances using the setup we have made, the quickest way would be to rent a VPS. Alternately, you can install the DTC control panel yourself and add our Debian repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list. This setup requires you to run a fully featured Xen setup and requires significant configuration.

Feel free to get in contact with us at info@gigatux.com with any questions.

Install Linux on PS3


ps3magic.org – Install Linux and Windows on Your PS3 with PS3 Magic guide step by step easy to follow. Here goes my review about this great product.

Learn Linux Chapter 30 of 40


Series of videos that walk you through what Linux is, how to get it, try it out in Live CD mode, install it as a dual-boot operating system with Windows, and how to use it, including how to set up the most common applications such as email and instant messaging. The benefit of this demonstration video is that it is a real world recording that takes you through all the steps, so you can later follow along to try out Linux yourself as a Live CD. If you decide you want to install Linux as a dual-boot operating system with Windows, (meaning when your computer starts, you are presented with a menu choice to run Linux or Windows) you are shown how to install Linux. Linux was installed for free using the steps performed in this video. Linux is all about choice, and the best way to decide if Linux is right for you, is to try it out. site: tomlinux.ca

The Basics of The Palm Pre Linux

Written by: Alexandr Dodatko, Junior Software Developer of Device Team

Apriorit Inc.

Table of content

Introduction

1. SDK Installation

2. Start to work with Linux

3. Program Installation

4. System foldes review

4.1 Standard system directories

4.2 Specific Directories of Web OS

5. Work with FTP on the Palm Pre

5.1. Data exchage procedure

5.2 Work with console client ncftp

Referrences

Palm company released (http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/) the new smartphone managed by GNU Linux based operating system. This product becomes more and more popular due to the cute GUI, well-documented SDK and easy start on the development. But nevertheless many low-level features of this system is poorly documented.

This article will be useful for those who start working with the console interface of GNU Linux generally and Palm Web OS in particular. It may be useful also for the developers who need more capabilities than Mojo SDK provides to solve their task.

In this article we’ll consider such questions:

This article is some kind of review.

I used emulator from the Palm Mojo SDK package to research the features of Web OS.

You can download it from the official site: http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_ajaxregister&view=register&sdkdownload

Or use this link (no registration): http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1788

Choose the platform you need on the download page (Fig.1) and then follow the instuctions on the site and in Install Wizard. It’s better to install Java first, thenVirtualBox, and thenSDK. Such order decrease the possibility of errors.

Figure 1: Choosing platform

During the installation the virtual machine for Palm Web OS will be created. You don’t have to create it manually.

To start work with Web OS Linux start the emulator. You can use either the shortcut created by installation program (fig.2) or VirtualBox interface(fig.3).

Figure 2: Start with shortcut

Figure 3: Start from Virtualbox

If verything is ok then you’ll see the Emulator window (fig.4). We’ll need the Internet connection for the further work. It should be configured only in the host system (in our case it’s Windows) . You can check ff there is Internet on Emulator simply starting Web Browser. To do it choose Programs (right bottom icon) => Web. After that try to open some site just like on the computer. Search something for example (fig.5).

Figure 4: Palm Emulator

Figure 5: Palm Web Browser

Now we should use the novacom.exe utility to connect to the device. To get the full information about this program options enter

The command

opens the Linux terminal window.

Figure 6: Linux Console

Note: like in the usual Linux, more than one terminal can be opened in Web OS.

First lets browse the file system. ls command is used for this. After entering it we see the content of the current directory (root by default).

Figure 7: Results of the ls command

To distinguish files from directories we an use option ls -F

Figure 8: Results of the ls -F command

Directories now have / symbol at the end. So as you see we have only three files in the root directory: wget, log.txt, md5sums.

When using ls -F some other symbols can occur at the end of the file names.

Suffics

Meaning

@

Symbol link

*

Executable file

/

Directory

=

Socket

You can see the examples by entering commands:

More detailed information about the file system element type can be obtained by means of file utility. This utility is disabled in Palm Web OS by default. Later we’ll consider how to install it.

To browse the file content use the command cat .

For example,

To obtain the full information about the command enter –help, or search the Internet with keywords “man “. You can also read the help in the full Linux version entering “man “.

I propose reader to learn also such commands as rm (remove files\directories), mkdir (make directory), touch(create file), cp (copy), pwd (get current path).

The process of the program installation for Linux is a bit different from this process in Windows. Unlike other systems Linux has repositories. Repository can be considered as the database that contains program, libraries, and relations between them. There is some special software that manages repositories and install software on the local computer. Such software is called “package manager”. The package manager compares software versions on the computer and in the repository, download software, resolve conflicts between packages. More information about package managers can be found in the articles [4],[5],[6],[7].

By default, Palm Web OS does not have a package manager. To install it use the guide

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Next_steps.

The script optware-bootstrap.sh performs the following:

In the original script some of the mentioned actions cannot be performed on the emulator (for example (4)). It’s also required to have /dev/hdb device. By default, there is no such device on the emulator so you should add it manually. Detailed instructions can be found here:

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Adding_Disks_to_the_Emulator

I’ve put the fixed version of this script into the attachments to this article. It lets user to change disk for installation and also is free from the limitations for the emulator.

To start the fixed script you shoud get it on the device using the wget command. To organize file exchange with the device you can install ftp server on your computer or other computer in your local network.

After entering the command

the file will be uploaded to the device ???? to the current directory (ip adress should be of the computer with ftp server of cause). DON’T use symbol names of the machines (for example

) as far as Web OS won’t be able to convert them to the address correctly.

So, we have executed the script and installed a lot of useful programs. Now we have package manager and so we’ll be able to install all missing programs. To do it, use the following command:

For example

The list of the packages can be browsed by the command

or by following the link:

http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/i686g25/cross/unstable/Packages

Developers and enthusiasts may want to install gcc compiler, gdb debugger, make utility, python interpreter and other great things. The presence of these utilities allows program installation by means of building from the source texts.

Let’s start from the folders that are common for all Linux systems.

1. /bin, /lib, /home,

These are folders for standard utilities from Linux package, shared libraries (Windows *.dll analogues) and user files correspondingly.

2. /mnt, /media, /lost+found

The access points to the external data storages (floppies, hard disks, optical disks) are stored in these directories. In the Palm memory card (micro sd) can be mounted to this directory. And there is nothing interesting there on the emulator.

Note: The lost+found directory is specific for the extX (ext1, ext2, ext3, ext4) file systems.

3. /dev

Device files are stored here.

/dev/hd[a..z][1..N] – logical partitions of hard disk

/dev/hda1 – root file directory

/dev/hdc – bootloader

/dev/hdb – the section we created earlier or the physical data storage of the real device – 8GB (~7GB user available)

ttyN – console devices.

null – «black hole», eating all information that is entered into it.

1. /var/luna/data/dbdata/

There are databases used by high-level applications of Web OS.

Bases PalmDatabase.db3 and PalmAccountDatabase.db3 is in sqlite format. There are data of such applications as mail accounts, notes, calendar, chat, memo stored in them.

They can be browsed by any sqlite viewer (see [9]). I would like to advise this one http://link.osenxpsuite.net/?uid=homepage&id=sqlite2009pro.zip

We will discuss how to exchange files with Palm Pre in the next section.

2. /var/luna/data/mediadb.db3

The data about the locations of images, music, movies etc. are stored here. After analysis I can say that these data are stored in the directories: /media/internal/, /usr/palm/ and their subdirectories.

3. /var/luna/data/emails

The text of email messages is stored in this directory in html and ascii formats.

4. /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services

Here you can find Java services (or, if yo like, deamons). Using them the application developed with the usage of Mojo SDK can get access to the low-level components of the system.

5. /usr/lib/luna/java

Here java library files (*.jar) are stored, they are used by services.

Well, now we know what and where is situated. But it’s not very convenient to research file content directly on Palm Pre. So we have a task of getting files from the device.

One of the methods is FTP protocol. And so you should:

To connect to the server enter ncftp .

Or

Remember that

When the connection is established the current local directory is «frozen». Instead of working with the directory all commands of navigation in the file system are translated in the commands of the FTP and processed by the server.

Figure 9: Server navigation with ncftp

Now, after you choosed the necessary remote directory data exchange can be performed:

You can also use some mask instead of the argument. For example, put *.txt

Figure 10: Transmission of the several files using the mask

To send the directory use the command put -R

Figure 11: Sending the directory with ncftp

Ncftp also supports such commands as mkdir, rm, rmdir, pwd.

The same commands but with l- prefix are used to navigate in the local file system: for example lmkdir, lls, lpwd etc.

You can find the full list of the commands on the official program site:

http://ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftp.html

Download scripts sources.

http://developer.palm.com/

http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Next_steps

http://www.control-escape.com/linux/lx-swinstall.html

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/64958-how-install-software-linux.html

http://www.linuxcenter.ru/lib/articles/system/rpm_howto.phtml

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.ru.html

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/PalmDatabase.db3_File

http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ManagementTools

http://link.osenxpsuite.net/?uid=homepage&id=sqlite2009pro.zip

http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/i686g25/cross/unstable/Packages

http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server

http://filezilla-project.org/download.php

http://www.perpetualpc.net/srtd_commands_rev.html

http://ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftp.html

Learn Linux Chapter 39 of 40


Series of videos that walk you through what Linux is, how to get it, try it out in Live CD mode, install it as a dual-boot operating system with Windows, and how to use it, including how to set up the most common applications such as email and instant messaging. The benefit of this demonstration video is that it is a real world recording that takes you through all the steps, so you can later follow along to try out Linux yourself as a Live CD. If you decide you want to install Linux as a dual-boot operating system with Windows, (meaning when your computer starts, you are presented with a menu choice to run Linux or Windows) you are shown how to install Linux. Linux was installed for free using the steps performed in this video. Linux is all about choice, and the best way to decide if Linux is right for you, is to try it out. site: tomlinux.ca

Beginning the Linux Command Line

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Dingux — Linux on the Dingoo (A-320)


Me showing Dingux — the Linux port to the Dingoo. You only need 3 things in order to install Linux on the Dingoo: 1) A computer. 2) A Dingoo. 3) A Mini-SD card. Once you meet these requirements, you can follow the instructions at the following link to install Linux on your Dingoo! www.dingoo-scene.com Also, check out the dingoo forums at: a320.freeforums.org

Learn Linux Chapter 10 of 40


Series of videos that walk you through what Linux is, how to get it, try it out in Live CD mode, install it as a dual-boot operating system with Windows, and how to use it, including how to set up the most common applications such as email and instant messaging. The benefit of this demonstration video is that it is a real world recording that takes you through all the steps, so you can later follow along to try out Linux yourself as a Live CD. If you decide you want to install Linux as a dual-boot operating system with Windows, (meaning when your computer starts, you are presented with a menu choice to run Linux or Windows) you are shown how to install Linux. Linux was installed for free using the steps performed in this video. Linux is all about choice, and the best way to decide if Linux is right for you, is to try it out. site: tomlinux.ca

N. Korea develops operating system with Windows-like GUI, Linux guts

N. Korea develops operating system with Windows-like GUI, Linux guts
The North Korean government appears to have developed its own graphical Linux-based “Red Star” operating system, though its people still prefer that symbol of Yankee high-tech imperialism, Microsoft Windows.

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How To install Linux Ubuntu on VMware fusion on The mac


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