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• Perform Hot Backups of MySQL Databases with Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: backup, linux, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 1 • Published: Sep 30, 2016

  Percona XtraBackup is an open source backup utility for MySQL. It supports all MySQL flavours like Percona Server, MariaDB, and (Oracle) MySQL. Percona Xtrabackup performs a Hot Backup for MySQL. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a hot MySQL database backup with the OpenSource tool Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).

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• How to Install Nagios Server Monitoring on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, monitoring, networking, server, ubuntu • Comments: 0 • Published: Sep 29, 2016

  Nagios is an open source software for system and network monitoring. Nagios can monitor the activity of a host and its services, and provides a warning/alert if something bad happens on the server. Nagios can run on Linux operating systems. At this time I will use Ubuntu 16.04 for the installation.

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• How to install and use KDEConnect on Ubuntu 16.04LTS

  Author: Ansh • Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu • Comments: 0 • Published: Sep 28, 2016

  In this article, we will discuss one such application - dubbed KDEConnect - that connects your Android or BlackBerry phone to your Linux computer. Suppose you are working on your computer and your phone rings. You pick it up and see that there's a spam SMS. You just ignore it. After some time, the phone rings again. You again pick it up only to see another spam SMS. And this goes on, until you choose not get distracted while you are working.

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• An Introduction to GNOME Boxes (virtualization) on Linux

  Author: Bill Toulas • Tags: desktop, linux, virtualization • Comments: 0 • Published: Sep 27, 2016

  GNOME Boxes is a system virtualization application that is a core part of the GNOME desktop environment. Based on the QEMU machine emulator, it offers a simplified and user-friendly approach to the whole OS virtualization idea. This post is just an introduction to its capabilities and a statement that it finally works in other distributions besides Fedora.

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• How to install OpenSC on IPFire Firewall

  Author: Ahmad • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 1 • Published: Sep 26, 2016

  In this tutorial, support for hardware tokens (such as smart cards) and their readers (CCID compliance) are integrated with the IPFire project. This article is the continuation of our previous work on IPFire firewall.

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• How to install PHP 5.6 as additional PHP-FPM & FastCGI for ISPConfig 3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: apache, control panels, debian, ispconfig, linux, nginx, php, web server • Comments: 2 • Published: Sep 23, 2016

  This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.6 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). Ubuntu 16.04 ships with PHP 7 by default but there are still many websites out there that don't support PHP 7. This tutorial will show you how to install PHP 5.6 as additional PHP version on Ubuntu 16.04 so that you can switch between both versions for each website individually in ISPConfig.

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• How to Install Drupal 8.1 with Nginx, PHP-FPM and SSL on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, mysql, nginx, php, server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 1 • Published: Sep 22, 2016

  Drupal is a well-known open source content management system based on PHP. It is available free of charge and released under the GNU General Public License. In this tutorial, we will install Drupal 8.1 with Nginx web server, MariaDB as the database server and PHP-FPM to handle PHP requests. I will also show you how to install an SSL Certificate to secure the Drupal website.

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• How to extend the functionality of your Linux desktop with PlexyDesk

  Author: Ansh • Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu • Comments: 3 • Published: Sep 21, 2016

  It's always good to look for new ways to increase your productivity, be it your personal or professional life. After all, productivity plays a key role in defining how successful you really are. If your work involves computers, you'll probably be aware that there are several tools, scripts, tips, and tricks that people use to be more productive.

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• Multiple USB Writing on Linux

  Author: Bill Toulas • Tags: centos, debian, fedora, linux, opensuse, ubuntu • Comments: 2 • Published: Sep 20, 2016

  This quick tutorial will deal with the tasks of writing an ISO file on multiple USB pen drives, and writing multiple ISO files into one USB pen drive. These are two different tasks that require the utilization of different tools, but I thought it would be a good idea to cover them both in one article.

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• How to Install Redmine 3.2 with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, nginx, ubuntu • Comments: 4 • Published: Sep 19, 2016

  Redmine is an open source project management and issue tracking tool based on the Ruby on Rails Framework. This tutorial covers the Redmine 3 installation with Nginx as the web server and MySQL as the database on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) operating system.

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