Share a Directory Quickly on Ubuntu Using Boa Webserver
When it comes to HTTP servers, there are many options to choose from. Apache and Nginx are two of the most well known names. Boa is a lesser known lightweight (only ~300 KB) webserver that delivers...
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How to Fix a Mangled Partition Table on Linux
Well there I was, rebuilding a router and having a good time when I accidentally damaged the partition table on my main Linux installation, which is a GUID partition table, or GPT. Figure 1 (above)...
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Easy Steps to Make GNOME 3 More Efficient
Few Linux desktops have brought about such controversy as GNOME 3. It’s been ridiculed, scorned, and hated since it was first released. Thing is, it’s actually a very good desktop. It’s solid,...
View ArticleXen Hypervisor: Assign Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine
Dealing with our daily admin tasks we face lot of requests where we need to assign virtual disks or additional disks to Virtual Machines running on Xen hypervisor . Xen hypervisor have lot of “xm”...
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How to Simplify Linux Package Installation With Yum Groups
Most Linux admins are aware of the yum (Yellow Dog Updater Modified) utility for package management in Red Hat-based distros such as RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Few, however, are aware of the power,...
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How to Set up Server-to-Server Sharing in ownCloud 7 on Linux
Most of the buzz around The Cloud is devoted to commercial services such as Google's online apps, Amazon's cloud services, and tablets and smartphones that are shortchanged on storage because they...
View ArticleHow to Perform Graphical Installation of “Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS 7.0″...
This tutorial concentrates on how to perform a graphical installation of Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS 7.0 from a remote point in VNC Direct Mode using Anaconda included locally VNC server and how to...
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How to Choose the Best Linux Desktop for You
With Linux comes choice. Along with that choice, comes debate. Which desktop is the best? Which offers the most user-friendly experience? The questions are not only never-ending, but date back over a...
View ArticleHow To Install Drupal On Ubuntu 14.04
How To Install Drupal On Ubuntu 14.04 This document describes how to install and configure Drupal on Ubuntu 14.04. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites...
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How to Image and Clone Hard Drives with Clonezilla
Clonezilla is a partition and disk cloning application for Linux, Free-, Net-, and OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Windows, and Minix. It supports all the major filesystems including EXT, NTFS, FAT, XFS, JFS, and...
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RAW Sharpening and Noise Reduction With Raw Therapee on Linux
The full power of digital photography lies in knowing how to manipulate RAW images. When you shoot RAW you get the highest-quality images, and the most editing headroom for repairs and enhancements....
View ArticleHow to Create a Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Tunnel Using Openswan in Linux
A virtual private network (VPN) tunnel is used to securely interconnect two physically separate networks through a tunnel over the Internet. Tunneling is needed when the separate networks are private...
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How to Control a 3 Wheel Robot from a Tablet With BeagleBone Black
Give the BeagleBone Black its own wheels, completely untether any cables from the whole thing and control the robot from a tablet. The 3 Wheel Robot kit includes all the structural material required...
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How to Install the Netflix Streaming Client On Linux
Netflix is one of the biggest video streaming services on the planet. You’ll find movies, television, documentaries, and more streamed to mobile devices, televisions, laptops, desktops, and much more....
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Photo Editing on Linux with Krita
Krita is a wonderful drawing and painting program, and it's also a nice photo editor. Today we will learn how to add text to an image, and how to selectively sharpen portions of a photo. Navigating...
View ArticleSplitting a File Elegantly
In a previous Linux Rain article I compared different ways to delete blank lines, and showed that the AWK way was the simplest and most thorough. Here I show how to split a text file into multiple...
View ArticleUnderstanding Exit Codes and How to Use Them in Bash Scripts
Lately I've been working on a lot of automation and monitoring projects, a big part of these projects are taking existing scripts and modifying them to be useful for automation and monitoring tools....
View ArticleHow to Limit CPU Usage with CPULimit on Ubuntu Linux
How to limit CPU usage with CPULimit on Ubuntu Linux This document describes how to limit CPU usage in Ubuntu 14.04. I will use CPU-limit utilty for this purpose. Cpulimit is a tool which limits the...
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Running Your Business on Linux (No, You Don't Need Windows)
Believe it or not, my dear Linux friends, a lot of IT pros still believe they need Windows servers. They have this goofy idea that Active Directory, SharePoint, Exchange, Windows Server, SQL Server,...
View Articlesystemd vs sysVinit Linux Cheatsheet
LinOxide: systemd is the new init system, started with Fedora and now adopted in many distributions like Red Hat, Suse and Centos. Here's a cheat sheet comparing commands in systemd to sysVinit. Read...
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