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How to access your Google Drive account from Linux command line using Gdrive
Author: Ansh •
Tags: linux, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 26 While Google Drive is no doubt one of the most popular (if not the most popular) cloud storage services available today, what's really sad is that there is no official Drive client available for Linux. But that doesn't mean there are no alternatives - in fact the awesome Linux/open-source community has developed several unofficial Google Drive clients, some of which we've already discussed here at HowtoForge. In this article, we will discuss Gdrive.
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How to create multiple profiles for Unity launcher in Ubuntu using launcher-list-indicator
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 If you are on Ubuntu Linux and use the Unity desktop (which is the default desktop environment for the Linux distribution for quite some time now), you'd agree that launching an application through Unity's launcher bar is only convenient as long as the app icon is there right in front of your eyes. However sadly, that's not usually the case when you use your Ubuntu box for more than one purposes, as most of the times, because of the sheer number of apps, icon corresponding the one you want to launch is buried somewhere at the bottom of the launcher.
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How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
Author: Daria •
Tags: centos, desktop, fedora •
Comments: 0 This tutorial describes how to install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Rad Hat-based Linux distributions. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors allows users to edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations offline by providing access to the cloud-based ONLYOFFICE portals for an efficient remote team collaboration.
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How to Install nginx and google PageSpeed on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, nginx, server, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 4 This tutorial shows how to build a nginx .deb package for Ubuntu 16.04 from source that has Google PageSpeed module compiled in. Nginx (engine-x) is an open source and high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The outstanding features of Nginx are stability, rich feature set, simple configuration and low resource consumption. Nginx is being used by some of the largest websites on the internet and is gaining more and more popularity in the webmaster community.
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StrongSwan based IPsec VPN using certificates and pre shared key on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Ahmad •
Tags: linux, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 In this article, the strongSwan IPsec VPN will be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS), I will show the integration of OpenSC for hardware tokens and finally the creation of a gateway-to-gateway tunnel using a pre-shared key and x.509 certificates.
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How to install Odoo ERP Software on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, nginx, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 21 Odoo is an OpenSource enterprise resource planning and customer relationship software that can help you to organize and grow your business. Odoo was formerly named openERP and therefore TinyERP. There are many apps available to extend Odoo, for example: billing, accounting, manufacturing, purchasing, warehouse management, and project management.
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How to install and setup DRBD on CentOS
Author: shahril bin kamaruzzaman •
Tags: centos, linux •
Comments: 1 This tutorial explains how to install and setup DRBD for your server. Before I start, let me explain what actually DRBD represents and what it is used for. DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device, a software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution for mirroring the content of block devices such as hard disks, partitions, logical volumes etc.
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How to Install Seafile on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 15 This tutorial shows the installation of Seafile on Ubuntu 16.04. Seafile is a private cloud software, it supports encrypted file libraries to store data securely. To encrypt files in a library, you need to set a password when you create the library. The password won't be stored on Seafile cloud, so even the administrator of the servers cannot view your encrypted data without the password.
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How to Password-Protect Directories with mod_authn_dbd and MySQL on Apache (Debian 8)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, debian, security, web server •
Comments: 5 This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_authn_dbd on Apache2 on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server. It is an alternative to the plain-text password files provided by mod_auth and allows you to use normal SQL syntax to create/modify delete users.
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Upgrading from Debian 6 Squeeze with ISPConfig and courier/postfix to Debian 7 Wheezy
Author: howtoforge •
Tags: debian, ispconfig •
Comments: 5 This howto describes the upgrade procedure of an ISPConfig server with Courier pop3/imap from Debian 6 to Debian 7 in detail.
