Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL
Surprisingly, many members of the open source community are not opposing the shift in MySQL ownership that would come with the close of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire current owner Sun Microsystems Inc., contending that it would not wound the open source database.
Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more.
Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL
Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, according to Richard Stallman, a developer and prominent activist for free software.
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.1 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.1 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
Installing a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database.
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