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How to install Joomla on an Ubuntu localhost

Dec 20th, 2009 | By anuradham | Category: FOSS, linux, tricks, ubuntu

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 [...]



How to Run Windows Software on Linux-WINE Way

Dec 15th, 2009 | By anuradham | Category: FOSS, how to, linux, ubuntu

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 [...]



Download accelerator for Ubuntu GNU/Linux Shell

Dec 13th, 2009 | By anuradham | Category: FOSS, freewares, how to, linux, ubuntu

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 [...]



How to Install Drupal in Ubuntu localhost the easy way

Dec 10th, 2009 | By anuradham | Category: FOSS, how to, linux, tricks

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 [...]



Organize your photos with F-Spot

Dec 7th, 2009 | By anuradham | Category: FOSS, linux

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 > [...]