Installing Joomla in an Ubuntu Box is fairly straight forward work. The world has being lot more easier on CMS installations than early days.In our previous CMS tutorial for linux we gave you instructions on how to install drupal in localhost .Follow the steps below to come up with a quick Jommla installation on your local machine where you can test your web application for later production hosting. Prerequisites: A POSIX (Unix) user account for [...]
Have you ever tried to run Windows softwares from linux ? If you are on a GNU/Linux box and you still can’t get away from your Windows tools being using from the past, here’s a quick tool you can use. This is called WINE the Windows Emulator to run Windows Applications on Linux. You can run most of the Windows Native programs on Linux using Wine. (Applications, Utility programs, games, etc). Let’s try to run [...]
You might have used may number of Download accelerators in your Windows desktop. Have you ever used a console based DL Accelerator? This is a brief introduction to a simple, light weight yet powerful DL Accelerator that you can use in any GNU/Linux distribution like Ubuntu. It’s call Axel. You can download files from FTP or HTTP servers through multiple connections, where each connection download a part of the file and Axel will save the [...]
Drupal is one of the famous content management systems (CMS) in the world. You can create multi-functional dynamic web sites with CMSs. With this short how-to, let’s get a clean Drupal installation done in an Ubuntu Environment. Let’s use the terminal (command line) to do server level operations. [1] Download the drupal files from the web site and extract the files to the web root (/var/www/) $ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.14.tar.gz && sudo cp drupal-6.14.tar.gz /var/www/ (you’ll [...]
F-Spot is one of the famous photo organizing tools available in many GNU/Linux distributions. It can import photos from your digital camera, organize them, optimize them for the web and finally upload to the web photo gallery like Picasa, Flickr, etc. You can find F-spot by going to through the menu, Application > Graphics > F-Spot Photo manager. Here are some of the features of F-Spot: Simple and easy to use interface. It has a [...]
Couple of years back, connecting your mobile Internet device with GNU/Linux required system wizard knowledge where you have to edit all the configuration files, scripts manually. Now with Ubuntu Mobile Broadband applet it has become a child’s play to any average computer user. Today with this how to I’ll show you how easy it is to setup a 3G connection in Ubuntu. At the moment I’m in Sri Lanka so the settings here are for [...]
Many of you guys might not have tried Ubuntu because you can’t use Google Talk out there. Using google talk voice and video was not possible in previous Ubuntu versions. But the new Ubuntu 9.10 comes with the right tool developed for it. The software we use for it is Empathy. Empathy have developed it to cater the googletalk facility and you can use it for yahoo, MSN, IRC, and many other protocols too. Here’s [...]
A decade ago, installing software in Unix based system was a nightmare. Where you have to compile the source code, build the package and install all by manually. But as at today the GNU/Linux system have evolved a lot and have become more user friendly. New GUIs being developed. Any non-tech user can install and run a GNU/Linux system in couple of minutes without any issue. Ubuntu is the most popular GNU/Linux Distribution available in [...]
The term “FOSS” is in many individual’s, organisation’s vocabulary these days. Those who are in need of “License Free” solutions are digging in to FOSS as much as possible. Academics those who are interested in knowing how a particular software works, always stick with FOSS. What is this FOSS? Free and Open Source Software is a software category that offers many freedoms to the computer user. The term “Free” is referred to “Freedom” not “Zero [...]
