How to Upgrade to Perl 5.12.5 on Linux Machine

Upgrading Perl from source on Linux This tutorial explains how to compile Perl 5.12 for a Linux machine. In this tutorial, CentOS 5 / Red Ha...

Set Windows as Default OS when Dual Booting Ubuntu

Set Windows as Default OS in OS choice menu when Dual Booting Ubuntu & Windows When you install a dual-boot of Ubuntu, one of the frustr...

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu 10.04, also known as the Lucid Lynx, arrived on April 29th, 2016 and is the twelfth release of the Ubuntu OS. We've created the f...

Installing Ubuntu with Windows Dual-Boot

Introduction This page describes how to set up your computer in order to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows. Back Up Your Data Although this may s...

Handy Command Line Tricks for Linux

If you have limited Unix / Linux experience but are starting to use the shell to manage your applications, installation, here are some handy...

installing php apc gnulinux centos-5

Complex PHP applications, such as Drupal, can gain a lot of performance benefits from running a PHP op-code cache/accelerators.APC, Alternat...

How to mount ISO in solaris & resolve error (iso is not a multiple of 512)

Many software packages download are in the form of an ISO image. Rather than burning the image to a CD-ROM to access its contents, it is eas...

Linux File and Directory Permissions

file & directory protection is a essential of any OS and Linux OS is no exception for it! These authorizations allow you to choose exact...

How to upgrade PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.3 using yum on CentOS

This information explains how to update the standard PHP 5.1.x packages in CentOS 5.x 32-bit to the current development versions 5.3.x. Thes...

Putty install for linux

Putty install for linux Download putty package from here http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/rpmforge-x86_64/putty-0.61-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm.html...