Category Archives: Linux tutorials

Oracle VM VirtualBox Installation on Fedora 18

Written by Khalid Ahmed on . Posted in Fedora, linux command, Linux distributions, Linux tutorials, opensource, Software

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Today we will be installing Oracle VM VirtualBox which is a cross-platform powerful virtualization solution. I will be installing it on one of my favorite Linux distributions, Fedora 18. It’s such a light weight and neat distribution and I love … Continue reading

Run your own e-Commerce shopping online store using Prestashop

Written by SK on . Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Linux tutorials

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If you are planning to sell products through online and wonder how to create a online shopping cart solution like e-Bay, Flipkart and Snapdeal or where to find the right e-Commerce shopping solution for your needs, well then you should … Continue reading

Create a Live Linux USB with UNetbootin

Written by Ambition on . Posted in Arch Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Linux distributions, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, opensource, Software, Suse, Ubuntu

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Unetbootin is a tool which was created by Geza Kovacs that helps you to create a Live Linux USB flash from an ISO file.

Simple Bash Script for Pinging Hosts

Written by Ambition on . Posted in linux command, Linux tutorials, opensource, Software, Ubuntu

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This is a simple useful script which I learned from “Coding For Penetration Testers” book. It is used to check if a host is alive or not and echoes on user screen a message with the results of the ping … Continue reading

Cherokee – An Open source light weight cross-platform Webserver

Written by SK on . Posted in Hosting, Linux distributions, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

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Cherokee is an Open Source, cross-platform, fast and light weight web server. It supports all major web features such as FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, uWSGI, SSI, CGI, LDAP, TLS/SSL, HTTP proxying, video streaming, content caching, traffic shaping, etc. All the configurations … Continue reading

How to Install Mercurial with Google Code on OpenSUSE 12.3

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in linux command, Linux distributions, Linux tutorials, opensource, Software, Suse

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Many of us like to code and program. It’s an awesome and very satisfying hobby. Yet keeping track of your progress and different versions of files and what modifications have been made to those files is no easy task when … Continue reading

Seafile – Yet another alternative for Dropbox and OwnCloud

Written by SK on . Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Linux tutorials, opensource, Suse, Unix Tutorials

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Seafile is an Open Source file synchronization and collaboration tool. If you are looking an alternative for OwnCloud or Dropbox, this is the tool for you.

Monitor System Processes on Linux with htop

Written by Ambition on . Posted in linux command, Linux distributions, opensource, Software, Ubuntu

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What is htop ? htop is a Linux tool divided into three section ( CPU and Memory usage information,  Load Average Uptime and View of Processes) which allows real time monitoring of the  processes. It was created to replace  the … Continue reading

Audit the security of your Unix/Linux systems using lynis

Written by SK on . Posted in Linux tutorials, opensource, Ubuntu, Unix Tutorials

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Lynis is an auditing tool for unix/linux like systems which is used to scan the entire unix/linux systems for security issues, installed software informations, general system information, configuration issues or mistakes, software patch management, malware and vulnerability, firewall auditing, user … Continue reading