Howto : Install PHP 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4

It appears that many people or sys admin want to run php 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately Redhat does not provide this package (RPM file) for RHEL. You can download source code and install php 5 from official php site. This requires compiler collection on your system. Download source code and just follow [...]

How to extract an RPM package without installing it

Most of you may know to how extract a tarballs and/or a zip files. Someone recently PM me with a question:
How do I extract an RPM package without installing it on my Fedora Core Linux v5?
To be frank there is no direct RPM option available via rpm command to extract an RPM file. [...]

Quicktip - how to give someone else sudo access in Ubuntu

Say you’ve got an Ubuntu box at home and you’ve been training your significant other on the wonders and uses of Linux. Now they’re up to speed and you want to give them sudo rights.
Well, there are two ways to go about this. The first way is to edit the sudoers file and [...]

Using Hamachi to remotely control your Windows and Linux boxes

Hamachi is a great, open source Virtual Private Network tool that requires very little configuration, and is easy to use. Here I’ll show you how I install it under Ubuntu (the Windows install is all point and click) and then go about using it!
Using Hamachi to remotely [...]

An introduction to Linux compression or what the heck is a tar.gz file?

If you’re new to Linux and intent on peering under the hood a bit to see what makes things work, then you’ve probably encountered a range of files which are compressed in various formats. This guide is meant to be a quick and easy way to distinguish what’s what in compressed files. It’s [...]

How to Become a Successful Linux User

In the six and a half years that I’ve been handling the mail here at linux.org, I’ve had to handle thousands of queries on a wide range of Linux topics. I’ve been fortunate, I think, in that a lot of these mails contain simple questions on basic setup issues. They’re easily answered and both sides [...]

UNIX File maintenance tools, tips and how tos collection

IBM developerworks has published excellent set of tips and howtos.
From the article:
Systems administrators can use a number of programs to maintain files in a UNIX system from the command line. In this tutorial, you’ll experiment with commands, such as cd, cp, and tar, to navigate a UNIX file system from the command line and [...]

Super Grub Disk to fix Windows and Linux boot problems

Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or cdrom oriented towards system rescue, and more specifically to boot and restore of boot. This is a good tool for new Linux users. This software works with following platforms (features):
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Super Grub Disk to fix Windows and Linux boot problems
Originally from nixCraft by [...]

Fun things to do with SSH in Ubuntu/Debian

SSH is a great tool to get around your computers with. There are lots of things you can do with it besideds simply connecting to another machine. Did you know you could use X11 forwarding to get graphical programs running on one machine to display on another? This guide will help you [...]

Get the latest Ubuntu .debs here!

Check out this site - http://www.getdeb.net/
They’ve got the newest releases (or just plain new software) ready to install on your Ubuntu system with just a download and a click of the mouse!
geek out.

Get the latest Ubuntu .debs here!
Originally from ArsGeek by arsgeek

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