MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDMS) available. While it’s an ideal RDMS for both small and large-scale applications, being free and open-source (before Oracle acquired it) made it even more popular and versatile. If you are running web applications or database applications on linux servers, then most likely you… Read More »
Intel Quick Sync Video is the technology used in intel integrated gpu’s to enable hardware accelerated encoding and decoding of videos. It supports multiple codecs like H.264(avc), H.265 (hevc), MPEG-2 etc. In this quick tutorial we take a quick look at how to use this technology inside ffmpeg to encode and decode videos. Install non-free… Read More »
Dpkg Dpkg (Debian Package) is a package management system in Debian and debian based linux distributions like Ubuntu. Dpkg is actually a low level command line utility to manage packages. It is different from tools like apt-get and gdebi. Apt-get and Gdebi are more advanced tools that can resolve dependencies and install them so that… Read More »
Spam free email with SpamAssassin If you are running your own mailbox on a server using Postfix and Dovecot then it is imperative to install an anti-spam software to protect your mailbox from getting bombed with incoming spam mails. And for this SpamAssassin is one of the best solutions available out there. It is quite… Read More »
The top command is a useful command line tool to monitor processes on Linux. This post shows simple examples of how to use the top command on Linux.
Monit is a powerful tool to monitor background services and processes on your linux server. This post shows how to setup and configure Monit on Ubuntu and Debian based servers.
wxWidgets is a cross platform gui library for developing native desktop apps. This quick tutorial shows you how to compile and install it on Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint
This tutorial shows you how to install and configure a mail server with Postfix and Dovecot on a Ubuntu or Debian based linux server. Postfix is the SMTP server and Dovecot is the IMAP/POP server.
Quick tutorial on how to enable the testing and unstable repositories with apt pinning on Debian Linux and install newer version of packages from them.
How to setup and configure Postfix mail server to forward emails on Ubuntu or Debian based Linux servers.
Step by step guide on how to install Virtualbox 4.3 on Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora linux and derivative distros.
Step by step guide on how to setup and configure a Debian 7 webserver with nginx, php fpm and mariadb. Also called a LEMP web server.
Virtualbox guest additions in Debian Debian 7 wheezy has virtualbox guest additions inbuilt. So after installing debian on virtualbox the guest addition features are immediately available. However the guest additions bundled with debian is general of older version compared to the latest virtualbox version. So its a good idea to install the latest virtualbox guest… Read More »
This tutorial shows you how to install wine on Debian 7 (Wheezy). Wine is used to run windows applications on Linux.
Step by step instructions to install the Cinnamon desktop environment on Debian 7 wheezy.
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 »
Guide on how to setup apache and php using CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on Ubuntu
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 »