Author Archives: Mel Kham

About Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Cuba Says 'No More Microsoft,' Joins the Linux Bandwagon

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Cuba recently launched its own answer to Windows this week, or, in the bigger picture, what the Cubans are calling “US Hegemony.” Nova, the new open source OS being offered by the Cuban government, is being made to boot out … Continue reading

Howto : Add user and Secure your ssh access

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

One of the biggest security holes you could open on your server is to allow directly logging in as root through ssh. This howto shows you how to add a new user to your server  so  that you can su or sudo … Continue reading

Make NFS in RHEL/Centos and Fedora

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This tutorial shows you how to use nfs successfully, you have to configure the server and the client. In this example, the client is 10.10.0.3 and the server is 10.10.0.1. The folder to be shared is

Howto: Install PlayOnLinux ,Games and softwares Part I-II

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PlayOnLinux is sofware which allows you to easily install and use games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®’s Windows®. In this Part I of this tutorial we shows you how to install PlayOnLinux and howto install softwares, games on … Continue reading

Install Squid Proxy Server

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Squid server is a popular open source GPLd proxy and web cache. It has a variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, name server query , and other network lookups for … Continue reading

add NTFS partitons to your Centos or RHEL

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

In this tutorial we will show you how to add NTFS partitions to your centos or RHEL

install vnc-server under Centos/RHEL 5.x

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In this tutorial we will try to show you how to install install   vnc-server  under  Centos/RHEL 5.x

install apache2 php and mysql in ubuntu

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In this tutorial we will try to show you how to install apache2,php and mysql on Ubuntu

Howto install Java Runtime Environment in fedora and Linpus

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To install Java runtime enverinment in fedora or Linpus, please folow the instructions below.

Vi and Vim Macro Tutorial: How To Record and Play

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Vi and Vim Macro Tutorial: How To Record and Play “High Level Steps to Record and Play inside Vim