Submitted by “This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).” On a related note, OSVids has some videos of Dapper, including an Xgl video.
It’s really nice to see a good (I am pretty new, and I did understand it
) howto for setting up a server with dapper.
But I still miss some (rather special) things, which I’m interessted in: are there any working backports (I allready checked the official repositories) for setting up a XEN or OpenVZ virtual machine? I’ve allready tried to install a VServer, but it complained about a missing patch (the howtos I found where all about Breezy)
I’d like to run a web server and a LAN Fileserver on one machine (FreeBSD Jails would’ve been nice I guess, but my nForce 410 SATAII didn’t seem to work there)
OpenVZ requires that you run a patched host kernel in order to create/start a VPS. I haven’t done it on Ubuntu (I probably will very shortly), but I imagine that when you installed the OpenVZ package, Ubuntu created a new entry in your bootloader menu for the OpenVZ kernel. If so, just reboot with that kernel are you should be all set. If not, check to see if the OpenVZ kernel image is installed in your /boot directory (add it to grub.conf if it is), check to see if there is a separate openvz-kernel package (it should have been a dependency of the userspace package…), and failing that, grab the latest OpenVZ patchset and roll your own kernel.
Definitely try OpenVZ. I use it on Gentoo, it’s pretty simple to use (excellent documentation), really flexible in terms of how you can preconfigure your VPSs, and offers the lowest overhead of any virtualization software I’ve seen for Linux on available commodity hardware (pre-Vanderpool/Pacifica). You shouldn’t confuse it with XEN, which offers significantly more flexibility (i.e. it can run completely different operating systems) and features (i.e. preliminary support for live migration across physical nodes), but it definitely has its place.
I would like to see some commercial offers for ubuntu VPS’s, either XEN or OpenVZ/Virtuozzo but it seems there aren’t any.
On the XEN side, running ubuntu as client still doesn’t “just work”, though there seems to be some work beeing done to import Xen packages into universe, from what i’ve read on the mailing lists.
OpenVZ requires something called a “OS template” for the client (basic install, modified kernel and the likes) but again, it doesn’t seem like there are any.
The best thing is, that all videos are in quicktime format. Of course, it is “free” and “available” on all platforms (especially x86-64).
I talked to the guy. He’s moving the front page to flash as we read this, like his linclips archive is now. That’ll be (more) cross platform.
“He’s moving the front page to flash as we read this, like his linclips archive is now. That’ll be (more) cross platform.”
Remind him not to encode it in Flash video *8* (7 and less is OK). There is no Flash plugin higher than version 7 for Linux yet (apprently Macromedia/Adobe is working on version 9 for Linux right now).
The video of Xgl in Dapper is amazing. I’ll have to upgrade my install from Breezy soon for that.
Well worth upgrading for. Takes a while, though. Took me two hours of downloading and 4 to 5 hours of installing and configuring (on a Pentium III-750 with 320MB RAM).
Of course with only a GeForce 2 MX400 Xvideo was very choppy, so my next upgrade will be an FX5200 or FX5500.
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The FX5200 is extremely poor and won’t be much of an upgrade at all. Just a warning from someone who (used to) have that card.
FX5500, then. The 6-series would be overkill; might as well get a whole new PC to go with it.
Hmmm, m-player loads 99% then quits and no further shall she go. I have the flashplayer installed and mozilla m-player. Whattup?
OK, Ubuntu 6 is just garbage. The X Server configured by Ubuntu on my Nvidia 440MX + a Compaq P700 Monitor left the display using 640×400 and guess what?. The size of the installer window is larger that than 640×400 which means I couldn’t get to the <Next> button on the bottom of the screen.
My solution (and since I’m an expert Linux hacker) was
1) switch to console (Ctl-Alt-F1)
2) change the root passwd first
3) edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
4) change the server from NV to VESA
5) switch back to the X server (Ctl-Alt-F7)
6) press <ctl><alt><Backspace> to kill the window and
restart the installation
Now I proceed and get further along. Sorry but idiots shouting about Ubuntu is ready for the desktop need to do some more Q/A –
Shuttleworth should put his money where his mouth is and setup a huge hardware compatibility lab – Microsoft spends upwards of 100million on hardware to ensure that Vista works and installs correctly on every single PC hardware combination.
Did you… file a bug report? One of the problem/advantages of all Linux distributions is that they’re community developed and tested. You use your Microsoft example as if Windows works “out of the box” on all hardware. Trust me, it doesn’t. Not even close. In fact, not but a couple months ago I had the EXACT same problem you’re describing (Screen too small to click on the actual dialogs) installing XP Pro 64-bit on an nForce4 with a 6600 GT. Where was Microsoft’s hundreds of millions of dollars on that one?
As a contrary example, I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on a Compaq laptop with an ATI 345M IGP, probably one of the least Linux-friendly GPU’s out there, and it worked Out-of-the-Box with 3D acceleration (Though I did have to switch it from the ati to the open-source radeon driver and enable some tweaks to boost it’s performance)
Not my job to file a bug report when SuSE/Redhat/Debian etc all work just fine. If they want to pay me fine I’ll file one but just so that users out there don’t get a one-sided view of Ubuntu.
So, you want to be paid to tell somebody else that the stuff they gave you, and the rest of the world, for free, has a problem. Interesting philosphy. Does that work for you in the rest of your life?
I’m no “fanboy” or anything, but I do have the sense to realise that it takes no longer to file a bug report, and possibly get the problem fixed, than it does to browse OSNews and post a rant on how much something “sucks” just because it didn’t work on your particular system. Especially when you’re clearly in the minority; pretty much everything I’ve read, and my own personal experience, praises Ubuntu for “JustWorks(tm)”, even if they don’t care for much else about it.
No it’s a fundamental problem – they should have designed the installation window to be 640×480.
When you cannot think in the most basic terms, why should Ubuntu get rave reviews at the expense of other distros.
Didn’t they take extra time to bake Ubuntu 6?