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Here's several tutorials, mini-howtos and technotes. You can use thoses documentations in your procedures at work if you like but please mention author's copyright according that BSD Documentation Licence. I particularly recommend those ones,

      •  Configure mail virtual hosts with the Postoffice SMTP Daemon
      •  How to configure the NetBSD system
      •  How to configure the pkgsrc portable package system
      •  How to configure and use XEN
      •  How to configure and use XEN : Redhat specifics
      •  How to configure and use XEN : NetBSD specifics

Take your pick ! (feedback is appreciated)

Audio The FLAC audio format How to make MP3 audio files on Windows and UNIX A list of MP3 players The Winamp audio player Benchmarking A list benchmarking tools for UNIX Communication programs The original terminal IRC client : ircII The usable terminal IRC client : Irssi Communication Notes on IMPI Databases How to configure MySQL The OpenLDAP server and tools Notes on Oracle (draft) Configure phpMyAdmin Development AWK notes How to install Bugzilla Notes on making a shell CGI .NET tips Korn Shell programming Notes on sofware licencing KSH / ImageMagick powered Photo gallery Some sed examples Editors The original VIsual editor : vi Emulators for other operating systems NetBSD/vax on SIMH Games UNIX philosophy & sayings Electronic mail How to configure fetchmail How to configure getmail How to configure UW-IMAPD Configure mail virtual hosts with the Postoffice SMTP Daemon How to configure Procmail : the autonomous mail processor Tips on using the sendmail SMTP server and tools How to optimize Mozilla Thunderbird Miscellaneous How configure the screen terminal window manager Multimedia MPEG4 encoding Networking Links about BIND IP calculations The NetBSD FTP Daemon (tnftpd, formaly known as lukemftpd) How to configure an FTP mirror Nagios installation and configuration How to configure NFS How to make a PXE install server Notes on using Rsync Samba configuration Security Security Advisories How to configure the IP Filter firewall Notes on configuring netfilter/iptables on Redhat systems tcpdump & nmap Shells How to configure the Bash shell Configure the KSH Shell Note on KSH88 How to configure more specificly KSH93 How to configure more specificly PDKSH How to use a proxy at the UNIX prompt

System (cross unices) How to organize simple backups Note on bits versus bytes Some inter-UNIX tips Notes on installing Cygwin Install from scratch A little list of log rotation techniques How to configure Logwatch on Redhat systems How to initialize the MBR from a UNIX prompt How to use the pwgen Password generator (FR) Recuperation mot de passe UNIX System - AIX Some notes and tips on maintaining AIX systems System - BSD How to configure the ccd concatenated disk driver A few notes on using FreeBSD How to configure the NetBSD system OpenBSD Kernel compilation How to configure the pkgsrc portable package system A few notes on configuring RAIDFrame System - HP/UX Notes on using HP/UX System - Linux Network interface bonding Boot recovery A few inter-Linux tips Notes on configuring HBA fibre channel cards How to configure Redhat systems Notes on configuring Slackware Linux Notes on using Novell SLES System - Solaris Notes on using Solaris Notes on maintaining Solaris 10 System - VMware (FR) Proce'dure de mise `a jour de VMware ESX (FR) Virtualisation P2V Linux (FR) Notes et recette VMware VI Notes about VMware ESX Notes about VMware server version 2 Tips on installing and configuring VMware Workstation virtual machines (FR) How to configure VMware Consolidated Backup System - Windows A list of recommended software for Windows Windows Notes System - XEN How to configure and use XEN XEN Gentoo specifics How to configure and use XEN : NetBSD specifics How to configure and use XEN : Redhat specifics XEN Novell SLES specifics How to migrate a Linux physical machine to a XEN virtual machine X11 window managers, configurations, and themes The BBDock application launcher The Blackbox window manager How to configure the TWM window manager The World Wide Web How to configure Apache Content Management Systems List of .NET frameworks and CMS engines Embedded web tools Notes on configuring Mozilla Firefox Web design tips & examples How to configure the Wordpress CMS The X window system How to configure the X11 resources

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