Tag: Linux

Upgrade Fedora with preupgrade

This article will help you to upgrade your currently installed version of Fedora, to the latest version or whichever higher version you want.
The main advantage of upgrading by this method is that, you can do your work simultaneously while the system is preparing for the upgrade.

Step 1: Become root

# su -

Step 2: Use “yum” to upgrade

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Install Apache, Mysql & PHP on Linux

When i had been asked to install apache, mysql and php in my first job then it had been really hard for me to find a proper article which i could follow blindly and could install the stuff without wasting much time (which you usually don’t have in your first job).

So i thought of writing one full fletched article

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Goggle releases Chrome beta for Mac OS X and Linux

More than an year back google launched it’s web browser “Chrome” with lots of great features like

  • Crash free app browsing
  • Smarter memory management
  • Quick navigation
  • New style of private browsing

But it was only for windows. I tried it on windows and was desperately waiting for it’s version on mac and linux.

And finally today google announced it’s announced …

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Linux VI Editor

Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of more than 100 useful commands, organized by topic, which will make your coder life better :

Search
/word Search “word” from top to bottom
?word Search “word” from bottom to top
/jo[ha]n Search “john” or “joan”
/\<> …

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Creating local YUM Repository(repo)

If you are working in an organization where you have lots of linux users and/or you have several computers to update via yum then you should consider creating a local repository. This will not even conserve bandwidth (updates are downloaded only once on the local reposotory) but it improves the speed of yum for installing additional programs as yum download …

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