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If you fancy Zope getting up and running on Ubuntu takes no time. Install in the usual simple and lovely way:

sudo aptitude install zope3

 
and you’ll get Zope 3.3.1, and of course, all the dependencies. To create an instance run:

/usr/lib/zope3/bin/mkzopeinstance -d instancename -u adminuser:adminpass –service-user=youruser:youruser

 
The first two parameters are optional. It is going to ask interactively […]

Ubuntu, like many other free operating systems, have a beautiful package management system that will track what depends on what, what is installed, what is not, what is not longer needed, which versions of each. If you tamper with it, you are asking for trouble. If you do a manual upgrade, from sources, eventually a […]

This article is like a second edition to Encrypted home in Ubuntu (or Kubuntu… or Debian…). Important changes include that I have tested it for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn and it works, but the devices are sd instead of hd due to all hard disk being viewed as SCSI (I am not sure why). Also […]

If you are looking for a rant about how Evolution is better than KMail, look elsewhere. I am running Evolution because I am giving Gnome another chance and I like using all the standard tools to get an integrated desktop.
Either my mails became corrupted or KMail on Ubuntu 7.04 is not as stable as it […]

I have just installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn and my previous instructions to get an encrypted home worked. The only difference is that I had to change "hd" for "sd" due to all hard disk are seen as SCSI, even if they are IDE. You are probably likely to need to make the change as […]

Note: Ported from old blog.
The explanations you’ll find here have been tested with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), they should work without any problem in other members of the Ubuntu family and with minimal changes in other Debian-based distributions like Debian itself or Mepis. In other distributions it might require even […]

Note: Ported from old blog.
I’ve recently switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu. The main reasons is that in Ubuntu I have less things to take care about that I don’t really care about (like compiling Linux1). In the switch I also lost some interesting features.
The most interesting feature is to be able to easily tell the […]

Note: Ported from old blog.
There’s an excellent article by Don “dons” Stewart called The lambda revolution which explains how to build a Haskell library in way that it is easy to download, compile, install, test, distribute, etc. I believe all those qualities are essential for successfully software. The next logicall step is to make […]

Note: Ported from old blog.
My little article Cleaning up a Debian GNU/Linux was published at Debian Administration where lot’s of people replied with other ways to achieve the same goals. It was very nice to see all the different approaches with all the different pros and cons.
In the end I ended up changing my own […]

Note: Ported from old blog.
You arrive at a Debian GNU/Linux server which has some history of neglect. Let’s suppose someone else neglected it but if your new-year resolution is to stop neglecting your beloved server, this applies as well.
One form of neglect is to install, install, install and never un-install any package. The common utility […]