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How to install Odoo ERP Software on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 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 therefor 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 stitch photos into a panorama with Hugin Panorama Creator on Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: centos, debian, desktop, fedora, linux, opensuse, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Almost every modern digital camera offers the ability of “on the fly” panorama creation, but often you will find the result of this automated process not to meet expectations. For this reason, it's best to take the sequence of photos as individual continuous images and then you use some kind of software tool to stitch them together in a proper way.
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How to speed up apache with mod_pagespeed and Memcached on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, debian •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how to improve the page load times of your website by using the Google mod_pagespeed module for Apache in conjunction with the fast in-memory cache Memcached. Pagespeed is an Apache 2 module that optimizes and caches the content of a website before it gets delivered to the browser, the result is that the page loads faster, the system load on your server gets lower and the server will be able to deliver more pages per second.
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How to install a wireless hotspot with captive page on Linux using CoovaChilli
Author: Joseph Zikusooka •
Tags: fedora, linux, mysql, networking, security •
Comments: 11 The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how you can turn a Linux based computer or laptop into a wireless hotspot where users can be authenticated via a captive portal page. For this task, the primary controller software will be CoovaChilli. This software is an ideal hotspot management solution for hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, parks, and any place offering WiFi Internet.
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Ubuntu 15.04 LAMP server tutorial with Apache 2, PHP 5 and MariaDB (instead of MySQL)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, linux, mysql, php, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 5 LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache 2 webserver on an Ubuntu 15.04 server with PHP 5 support (mod_php) and MySQL / MariaDB. Additionally, I will install PHPMyAdmin to make MySQL administration easier. A LAMP setup is the perfect basis for CMS systems like Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal.
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How to connect via Bluetooth in GNOME on Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, linux •
Comments: 2 Connecting to a Bluetooth device is essential for file transferring, audio sharing (Bluetooth speakers), and shared network connectivity (smartphones). GNOME settings panel is offering a quick way to do this in simple steps. Here's a guide on how to do it.
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How to prepare for bad weather on Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, linux •
Comments: 0 Severely bad weather is one of the few things that can still awe people while causing large-scale catastrophes. Especially if you live in the US, you most likely have witnessed a dangerously large storm during the tornado season. Preparing for those situations is crucial for the safety and survival of you and your family, and while you can always keep an eye on the news for weather reports, you can also use your Linux system to draw conclusions yourself. There are a couple of free software tools that offer more “specialized” information that goes well beyond air speed and temperature.
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Docker: Installation and Basic usage on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 5 Docker is an open-source project that provides an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, package, and run applications anywhere as a lightweight container. This tutorial shows the installation of Docker on Ubuntu 15.04 and the first steps to get started with Docker container management.
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How to get Oracle Virtual Box 5.0 installed on (Ubuntu) Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: linux, ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 0 Oracle's Virtual Box is one of the easiest to use virtual machines that run under Linux. Although we Linux users have reasons not to use Oracle's products, the particular piece of software is maybe the best choice we can make in that area and at least it's open source. If you want to use other free software alternatives to Oracle's VM, you can check VMware Workstation, QEMU, or GNOME Boxes (currently works only on Fedora).
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How to monitor your system performance on (Ubuntu) Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
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Comments: 3 Monitoring your Linux system is essential in order to be able to improve its performance, locate the source of a problem and take more targeted corrective actions. As is always the case with Linux, there are quite a few tools and many different ways you can utilize to monitor different aspects of your system's performance. On this simple guide, we will take an overall look on how to install and run three monitoring tools on an Ubuntu Linux system.
