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Reclaiming disk space on Debian and Ubuntu by stripping the translations, documentation and package files you will never use.

How to join an Ubuntu 10.04 machine to a large Active Directory domain for centralised users, groups and resources.

The single command that installs Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL on a Debian-based system, in under a hundred characters.

If you use memcached to cache contents among different servers and apps, and you want to get statistics for what is happening inside the memcached-sever you can use one of the available interfaces for programming languages but there are simpler ways to do that.

Making Munin usable once you are monitoring more servers than you expected: a cleaner layout and the plugins worth adding.

mabishu-apache-autoindex, a set of templates, CSS and icons that makes Apache's mod_autoindex directory listings look like something you meant.

A crontab workaround for automatic package upgrades on Ubuntu, for the case where unattended-upgrades won't cover your own repositories.

Using Grub2's basic authentication to lock individual boot entries behind a user and password, and the regression that made it necessary.

Why a heavily used MySQL database stays fragmented even after you delete data, and how to optimise tables that are full of VARCHAR columns.

De un Debian recién instalado a una máquina con Apache, MySQL, SSH endurecido e iptables, sin tocar el teclado del servidor. Capistrano no es sólo para desplegar aplicaciones.