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I totally agree on the testing front - although its quite difficult to cover every test case, so I appreciate what the team does.

Each to his own - but when it comes to a server system, stability...

'fraid not. Centralised authentication is actually quite a big deal. If you think about it, its only possible in Windows through Active Directory which is just another implementation of LDAP. The...

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/

It started as a Fedora project but it'll work on Ubuntu too - even if it's a bit more tricky.

I know this isn't exactly very helpful... but why would you 'upgrade' a server to non LTS? On the desktop, I can see why people would want to upgrade... but server? really? I know I'll be sticking...

Check out '389 Directory Server' for LDAP and consider using kerberos.

Thats where I'm heading too. I'm a bit sad about that because I was a big fan of Ubuntu.

F15 is *very* polished even though its Beta.

You need to disable some IP spoofing protection to make this work:

Modify /etc/sysctl.d/10-network-security.conf and change:

net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=1
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Isn't that directory normally root:www-data by default? If so you can just make your user a member of the www-data group. I'm fairly sure thats what I've done previously.

I've had a couple of freezes since the last kernel update on my HTPC. Until the update 10.10 was as good as gold. These are full on freezes too, not a standard panic or segfault. I've checked the...

I have a Lucid server running NFSv4 (v3 to start with but transitioned very quickly to v4). I'm serving Lucid and Maverick client machines. As far as I can tell I've yet to have a single issue - and...

No worries.

Out of interest, which i7 do you have?

I think I saw something similar myself on some Westmere kit. I loaded the live CD on a DL380G7 and noticed a few cores working hard with no associated processes. I didn't look into it as I was only...

"random" crashes are *normally* the result of an underlying hardware problem - there are other possibilities, but its far more likely to be a problem with a bad memory DIMM for example.

I'm using SP/DIF optical out direct off of my motherboard. I'm using a pretty vanilla install - ie PulseAudio is still installed.

PA does not as yet support passthru, but ALSA, which is still...

Flash is supported on 64 bit. No hacks at all. I've had flash working for ages on 64-bit Linux installs.

My advice is if your hardware supports 64-bit, use a 64-bit install.

+1

This is what I do these days too.

My recommended approach is Linux as host and windows virtualised unless there is a specific need or requirement to have it the other way round. Bare metal virtualization was mentioned earlier (eg...

I'd go with ext4. Don't get me wrong, NTFS is very good... on Windows. But I'd rather use an FS built for Linux when using Linux. And performance wise ext4 beats NTFS.

deCSS isn't shipped with Ubuntu because, well, its a whole can of worms. Depending on where you stand on the planet its either completely legal or highly illegal.
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I didn't know that! Its still needed for WMVs though right - surely I can't be that out of date?

No distro is really going to be better than any other when it comes to those. The D-Link one is a Broadcom chip who have only very recently decided to commit to producing linux drivers. The other is...

Look at adding the Medibuntu repos too: http://medibuntu.org/

or you could do that - good point, well presented :-)

The *first* thing to check with random crashes is memory. It is the #1 reason for an OS to fail. There are plenty of tools available to do a proper test.

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
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In the home directory there is a directory called ".tsclient" if you remove its contents then all the information pertaining to previous connections will be lost.

I would look into why the host is...