I’ve done a number of articles on using Ubuntu 10 as a server recently, but haven’t actually looked at doing the base installation of an Ubuntu 10 host. In this example, I’ll look at using Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop. In many of the previous examples I’ve been looking at Ubuntu 10.10 Server; the reason I’m using 10.04 Desktop here is because I believe there is a smaller learning curve and that inherently Mac OS X Systems Administrators who might be following this thread actually like a GUI. There are a number of aspects of this type of setup that are simply not GUI oriented; however, the base OS can easily be,…
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QuickTime Streaming Server on Ubuntu 10
OK, so you don’t necessarily call rtsp on Ubuntu QuickTime Streaming Server. Instead, you call it Darwin Streaming Server (DSS). But the end result is basically what you have exposed in Mac OS X Server, but running on Linux. You don’t have the same functionality in Server Admin, but it does work. And the key to what it does is use the rtsp protocol to stream supported files from the server to clients. It is a little tougher than just clicking on the start button, but too much tougher provided you follow these directions (thanks to the good folks of the DSS list that I’ve been a member of for…
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Enable Jumbo Frames in Ubuntu Server 10
Jumbo frames can completely suck. But they can also boost network throughput performance. The MTU in networking terminologies is the Maximum Transmission Unit in bytes that protocol data can send over the wire. MTU is configured per interface and needs (er, prefers) the network infrastructure to match about the same MTU sizes. By default, eth0 (en0 in Mac OS X) is set to 1500. But increasing that to 9000 means that you’re sending less error correction and addressing data and more payload (but as usual the payload can get messy if all parties aren’t knowledgeable that they’re taking it). Before you get started, install ethtool: apt-get install ethtool Then run…