Xfce Desktop Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment system for linux, and is a good alternative to the complex and clumsy gnome. If you are running Debian linux on your computer, then you can easily install the Xfce desktop. In this post I am going to show you how to install xfce on debian. Install… Read More »
KDE In this post I will show you how to install the kde desktop on Debian 7 (wheezy). The packages for the kde desktop are available in the default repository of debian and can be installed directly from synaptic or apt-get. There are 3 different sized kde desktop packages that can be installed depending on… Read More »
Launchpad ppa On ubuntu, lots of software can be installed from the launchpad ppa repository. The repository url has to be added to the apt sources list on ubuntu and then the software can be installed from the package manager like synaptic. However for Debian there is no such ppa repository. But since ubuntu is… Read More »
Quick tutorial on how to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.5 on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) using apt-get
Virtualbox If you are a blogger, doing experiments with various oses on virtualbox and writing tutorials and posts, then you will need to take screenshots of the guest os things inside virtualbox. For normal screenshot tasks a tool like shutter works very well. But with virtualbox you get the screenshot of the entire virtualbox window… Read More »
Htop on centos When it comes to monitoring the cpu and ram usage on your linux machine, htop is the best tool to use. It is an ncurses based commandline too that does not require any gui like desktop, but still provides a very interactive and featureful interface to monitor processes running on the system… Read More »
In this tutorial we shall learn to use the ncdu command to check disk space usage on a linux system or server.
Dolphin and Konqueror are the main file system browser on the kde desktop on linux. And they can open remote ftp file systems with the “ftp://” urls. By default they use passive mode ftp, but can be configured to use active mode ftp as well. The ftp protocol operates in 2 modes. Namely passive and… Read More »
Tutorial on how to Use SSH to browse remote file system in Dolphin and Konqueror on KDE on Linux
Guide on how to setup apache and php using CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on Ubuntu
Quanta Plus Welcome to another great post on how to install quanta plus on ubuntu. Quanta plus is my favorite php web development tool simply because its too simple compared to all the alternatives out there. But most important is that its built with qt, which makes it a native, fast and efficient application on… Read More »
Php-FPM Php fpm is the new way to setup php to run with your webserver. Php-fpm is a fastcgi process manager for php that is totally separate from the webserver. The webserver communicates with fpm through a socket and passes the name of the script to execute. So fpm can run with any web server… Read More »
Mod Fcgid Mod Fcgid is an apache module that enables it to talk to fastcgi enabled application. It can be used to setup with apache to run php over fastcgi. It is an alternative to the older mod_fastcgi and has some differences with it. In this post we shall be setting up apache with php… Read More »
This tutorials shows how to setup and configure Apache web server with Php using mod fastcgi as the handler, on Ubuntu or Debian based linux servers
Apache + Php When setting up an apache+php server to run your php applications, there are lots of configuration parameters to deal with. The most important is the php Server Api (sapi). It determines how exactly is apache going to run the php scripts. Along with the php sapi another important thing to select is… Read More »
Tutorial on how to enable key based ssh authentication in openSSH on a linux server.
Kali linux Kali Linux comes with a hacked version of the gnome 3 desktop. It has been made to look like gnome 2 but lacks many features of the old version. If you want other desktops then can install kde, xfce or lxde from the repository. However if you want to get the good old… Read More »
Tutorial on how to setup password-less login to ssh server using key based authentication on Linux.
Tutorial on how to install and enable ssh (secure shell) server OpenSSH on Ubuntu to get remote shell access.
Quanta Plus Quanta Plus is web development tool for the KDE desktop that resembles dreamweaver of windows. But it is a dead project now and is not being developed anymore for years. However it is still my favorite because it works very well. Remarkable features are : 1. Group files into projects. 2. Auto-suggestions for… Read More »