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June 4, 2018 | by Arround The Web

Top GitHub Alternatives to Host Your Open Source Projects

If you are looking to migrate from GitHub, here are some of the best alternatives to GitHub for hosting the source code of your open-source project.

May 17, 2018 | by Scott Kilroy

Step By Step Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) LAMP Server Setup

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of […]

May 9, 2018 | by Scott Kilroy

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Screenshots Tour

The ‘main’ archive of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years until April 2023. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core. Ubuntu Studio 18.04 will be supported for 9 months. All other flavors will be supported for 3 years. (…)Read the rest of […]

May 8, 2018 | by Scott Kilroy

What is new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop

May 8, 2018 | by Scott Kilroy

Upgrade Ubuntu 17.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

May 8, 2018 | by Scott Kilroy

Install and monitor services using Monit on ubuntu 17.10 Server

Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. (…)Read the rest of Install and monitor services using Monit on ubuntu 17.10 Server (877 words) © ruchi for Ubuntu Geek, 2018. | […]

March 5, 2018 | by Arround The Web

Whitelisting rpmlint errors in Taskotron/Bodhi

If you submit a new Fedora update into Bodhi, you’ll see an Automated Tests tab on that update page (an example), and one of the test results (once it’s done) will be from rpmlint. If you click on it, you’ll get a full log with rpmlint output. If you wish to whitelist some errors which … Continue reading Whitelisting rpmlint errors in Taskotron/Bodhi →

October 6, 2017 | by Arround The Web

Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files

Update: This got significantly simpler with newer qemu and virt-manager, read an updated post. If you use VMs a lot, you know that with the most popular qcow2 disk format, the disk image starts small, but grows with every filesystem change happening inside the VM. Deleting files inside the VM doesn’t shrink it. Of course … Continue reading Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files →

June 18, 2015 | by Arround The Web

Catching up!

A lot has changed since the last blog post (more than three years). I was happily running a successful business around Videocache till Google decided to push HTTPS really hard and enforced SSL even for video content. That rendered Videocache completely useless as YouTube video caching was the unique selling point. Though people are still … →

May 22, 2012 | by Arround The Web

Insanely Awesome Web Interface for Your Git Repos

Almost 80-90 people visit How To: Install and Configure GitWeb everyday in search of setting up a web interface for their git repositories. Though gitweb is nice, it’s a bit painful to setup and the web interface is not that appealing. The other day I received this email from Klaus Silveira Hello Kulbir, I saw your article … →

May 17, 2012 | by Arround The Web

Getting Started With Git

I have been using Git for years now and I am still a novice user. Actually, if you are an individual developer or work in a really small team, you don’t really need to go beyond using the basic stuff like cloning a repo, committing code, branching and pushing back to the origin repo. And … →

May 11, 2012 | by Arround The Web

Summer Hacking

Summer has already started and we (a small group of current and ex-IIITians in Hyderabad) are planning to have some fun digging into Ruby on Rails and related technologies. If you are also interested in utilizing your summer in a productive and fun way, you can join us and share your knowledge while learning from … →

April 17, 2011 | by Arround The Web

My New Book on Squid Proxy Server (A Beginner’s Guide)

I have not blogged since a long time mainly because I was a bit busy authoring a book Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner’s Guide for Packt Publications. The book is an introductory guide to Squid (especially the new features in Squid-3 series) covering both the basic aspects as well as the in dept details for … →

February 17, 2010 | by Arround The Web

News: ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.2 Released. No Fedora 12 Support.

After almost a month, ATI has come up with a new version 10.2 of its Catalyst (fglrx) drivers. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As AMD is famous for doing nothing but just incrementing versions of there software, even this version doesn’t support xorg-1.7.4. But if … →

February 11, 2010 | by Arround The Web

Javascript To Remove All Facebook Apps From Your Account

This is a guest post by Gaganpreet Arora AKA bitgeek. My Facebook app list was cluttered with useless apps accumulated over the time I had joined Facebook. The worst thing is that Facebook does not allow you to remove multiple apps in one go. You have to select one, confirm on “Are you sure?” first … →

January 27, 2010 | by Arround The Web

News : ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.1 Released. Test them now!

After a long, really long wait, AMD has released the next version 10.1 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers (fglrx) for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As previous version turned out to be a big turn off for Fedora community and AMD took a … →

January 27, 2010 | by Arround The Web

Red Hat Launches OpenSource.Com

Well, OpenSource is more or less about software source code and technology specific but OpenSource.Com scales beyond software and technology and provides a platform to discuss/learn/get involved/share. From the website, What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments? We want to shine a light on the … →

December 18, 2009 | by Arround The Web

Tip: Multiproxy Switch : Easily use multiple proxies in Firefox

A lot of people (especially working people with mobile devices like notebook/netbooks) need to use different proxy servers at home and office. There are several Firefox extensions available to achieve the required functionality but IMHO Multiproxy Switch(Mozilla Addon Page) is the best because Its simple and easy to use. It does what it should. No … →