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Setup Your Own Twitter like Website Using StatusNet

StatusNet is open-source software used to setup micro-blogging site similar to Twitter. In this article, I use CentOS 6.4 to setup this website. My hostname...

How to Enable Hibernate Feature in Ubuntu 13.04

In Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail', the hibernate feature which enables you to power down your computer while its current state is maintained have been...

Install and Configure Piwik Web Analytics Tool for Your Websites

Piwik is an open-source and free alternative to Google Analytics tool. It tracks and displays reports about the location of user visits, Where they...

Install and Setup Vanilla Discussion Forum Site on CentOS 6.4

Vanilla is an open-source, lightweight, and powerful web based discussion forum software used to build your own forum website. Around 648,352 websites are currently...

10 Easy Steps to Upgrade from MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS...

This article describes you how to upgrade MySQL to MariaDB in ten simple steps. We have already shown you How to Migrate from MySQL...

Meet Puppy Linux

Many geeks know about Puppy Linux and use it for their daily needs, but there are many others that have not heard about Puppy....

Setup Master-Slave Replication in MySQL Server

MySQL replication allows you to have multiple copies of data on many systems and data is automatically copied from one database (Master) to another...

Snowlinux 4 “Frosty” Has Been Released – Download Links and Release...

Snowlinux 4, code name 'Frosty' has been released. It is based upon Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail'. It has MATE 1.6 (default desktop environment) and...

Install and Configure Monit on CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian

Monit is a free open-source tool used to manage and monitor processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a local or remote LINUX/UNIX systems....

Gtypist – Command Line Typing Tutor

Looking for a typing tutor to increase your typing speed and accuracy? Here is a command-line typing tutor (GNU Typist also known as gtypist)....

Schedule Shut Down or Reboot Using Terminal

Shutting down and rebooting the computer is mostly done using GUI, but some of functions can not be done easily from the GUI such...

Proxmox Install Step by Step

ProxmoxVE is a complete open-source virtualization management solution for servers. It is based on KVM and container-virtualization and manages virtual machines, storage, virtualized networks,...

Chakra-2013.05-Benz Released – Release Notes and Download Links

The Chakra team has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.05, an updated release of the project's desktop Linux distribution for 64-bit computers. This new...

Setup Local Yum Repository on CentOS / RHEL / Scientific Linux...

We have already shown you how to create a local repository on Ubuntu systems. Today we are going to learn about setting up local...

Clean Up Your Linux Systems Using BleachBit

Probably, all Windows OS users will know about DiskCleanup utility which is used to remove the unnecessary files in the hard drive to free...

A More Interactive Command Line Player (MOC Player)

I recently posted an article about How to Play Music from the Command Line, but today am...

Create a Local Repository On Ubuntu 13.04 Server

If you have to install software, security updates and fixes often in multiple systems in your local network, then having a local Ubuntu repository...

How To Play Music From Command Line (Terminal)

Most people like me prefer using Command Line in everyday life to Graphical User Interface (GUI) . Today i`am going to show you how play...