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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 8.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: nginx, ubuntu •
Comments: 3 Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 8.10 Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 8.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian
Author: Sypher •
Tags: debian, nginx, php, ubuntu •
Comments: 24 Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian Since Apache is most of the time a memory hungy process, people started to look for different ways to host their website. Apache is clearly not the only webserver available. A few good examples are lighttpd and nginx. In this tutorial I will show you how to install it on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial also applies to Debian, though. There is only a very small difference.
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Sound Recording and Editing with Audacity on Ubuntu
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 In all the years I have been dealing with both Linux and sound recordings, I have never found a simplest and more powerful tool than Audacity to get the job done. This open source sound recorder, editor, analyzer, generator and effect applicator is surely one of the most useful and important tools ever to be produced by the free software community.
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OpenSSH Security Best Practices
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: arch linux, centos, debian, freebsd, opensuse, security, server, shell, suse, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 SSH (Secure Shell) is a cryptographic network protocol for initiating text-based shell sessions on remote machines in a secure way. OpenSSH is a connectivity tool that most administrators rely on to work on their Linux and *BSD servers daily. This tutorial covers the best pratices to configure your SSH server securely.
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How to defrag your Linux system
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: arch linux, debian, fedora, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 21 There is a common misconception among GNU/Linux users that our systems never ever need to be defragmented. This stems from the success of the journalized filesystems used by most distributions including EXT2,3 and 4, JFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and BTRFS. Fragmentation though can still be an issue though, especially for users that use space limited disks that may not offer many file allocation options.
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How to use Avidemux for Video Editing
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, linux, other •
Comments: 3 Thankfully, the open source world offers many good choices when it comes to video editing. Some of the most popular choices are the PiTiVi, OpenShot, Kdenlive and Blender. Avidemux is another one - maybe the one with the worst name, but being one of the oldest (five years old) it is now quite mature and stable as well as relatively feature rich.
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How to install Webmin on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: Gurujyot_singh •
Tags: monitoring, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 Webmin is a web-based interface for system administrators of Linux systems. It is quite simple, using any web-browser you can set up user accounts, Apache, Installations etc. Webmin helps all those who are not comfortable with the command line but want to manage their servers. This tutorial covers Installation and a little work around with Webmin on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet).
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Get to know your System (using the command line)
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 4 Knowing the details of your system is essential for being able to address issues that arise and make the right hardware and software choices to ensure the compatibility and a good performance of your system. To get to know yous system a bit better we will use the command line.
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How to Install Nagios 4.0.8 on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: monitoring, networking, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 Nagios is an open source software for system and network monitoring. Nagios can see 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 we are using Ubuntu 15.04 for the installation.
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Installing and Configuring Scientific Software in Ubuntu 15.04. Case: Scilab 5.5.1
Author: David Duarte •
Tags: linux, other, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Scilab is a free and Open Source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
