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How to Install HTTP Git Server With Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Hitesh Jethva •
Tags: linux, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 5 Git is a free and open source version control system that can be used to track changes of code. Git allows you to create many repositories for the same application and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for source code management in software development.
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Linux dir command for beginners (10 examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 4 At any point in time while working on the command line, you are always inside a directory. There may be times when you'd want to list information about all files and subdirectories within a directory. This is where the dir command helps. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command as well as the features it provides.
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) - OpenFlow and OVSDB connection
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, networking •
Comments: 0 This article is based on OpenFlow and OVSDB connection between SDN controller and OpenFlow-based switches and provides details on connection lifecycle. We will use open source SDN controller i.e. Opendaylight (ODL) Carbon release and OpenFlow virtual switch i.e. OpenVswitch (OVS) version 2.6.0 to describe OVSDB and Openflow connection.
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How to Install Apache Cassandra on CentOS 7
Author: Liptan Biswas •
Tags: centos, linux •
Comments: 0 Apache Cassandra is a free and open source distributed NoSQL database management system. It is used to store large data in decentralized highly available clusters. In this tutorial, we will be installing Apache Cassandra on CentOS 7 server.
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How To Install Gibbon on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Hitesh Jethva •
Tags: linux, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 6 Gibbon is a free and open source web-based Educational Management system that can be used to solve teachers and students daily problems. Gibbon is very flexible, extensible and themable application with many features, including online application forms, messenger, planner, external assessment, and much more. In this tutorial, we will go through step by step installation of Gibbon on Ubuntu 16.04 server.
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Linux Date Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 3 While working on the Linux command line, you might find yourself in situations where-in you need to display (or even change) the current system time. Not only that, if you work in a team with members in different timezones, you may want to keep yourself updated with time-related information for zones in which other members are sitting. If you're looking for a tool that lets you do all this (and much more), you will be glad to know there exists a command - dubbed date - that does all this.
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How to Monitor your CentOS 7 Server using Cacti
Author: Liptan Biswas •
Tags: centos, linux, monitoring •
Comments: 5 Cacti is a free and open source network graphing solution. It uses RRDTool for data gathering and graphing. It provides many features such as remote and local data collectors, network discovery, device management automation, graph templating etc. In this tutorial, we will install Cacti on CentOS 7 server.
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Linux cp command tutorial for beginners (8 examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 1 If you are new to Linux, it's worth knowing that command line is a very powerful tool, capable of doing almost all those tasks that you can do through the graphical interface. The Linux cp command provides you the power to copy files and directories through the command line. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basic usage of this tool using easy to understand examples.
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How to Install Streama on CentOS 7
Author: Liptan Biswas •
Tags: centos, linux, server, web server •
Comments: 2 Streama is a free and open source media streaming application. It's a self-hosted alternative to Netflix. It has numerous features such as easy drag and drop media management, beautiful media player, live sync watching, multi-user, subtitles and resume capability etc. In this tutorial, we will install Streama on CentOS 7 server.
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Samba 4 Additional Domain Controller for failover Replication on CentOS 7
Author: iron_michael86 •
Tags: centos, linux, samba, server •
Comments: 11 In this tutorial, I will show you how to configure an additional domain controller which is one of the key features of SAMBA 4. This setup provides a degree of load balancing and failover for AD services (Ldap schemas and dns ) and configuring it is really easy. We can also use this feature to scale up the environment.
