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Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux Enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) Repository

Question: How do I enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repo and install the packages under RHEL / CentOS Linux? Answer: EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that ...

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Using vnstat for simple traffic accounting

vnStat is a network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s). vnStat isn't a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the /proc -filesystem, so vnStat can be used without root permissions. However at least a 2.2.x kernel is req...

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What is the best Webserver

Have you been wondering what is the best Webserver? is it the Famous Apache which almost all Web Host use? or its Tight counterpart Lighthttp or the new comer LiteSpeed for people who does not know what is a webserver: A webserver is computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP request...

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How to check server specification on Linux

First About dmesg dmesg (for "display message") is a command on Unix-like operating systems that prints the message buffer of the kernel. When the computer system is initially booted the kernel is loaded into memory. At this stage each device driver present in the kernel probes the system for the ...

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How to Install Chromium in Ubuntu

Q. What is Chromium? A. Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser. Q. Are there native Linux and Mac versions of Chromium availabl...

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How to Secure Squid Proxy

How to Secure Squid Proxy? Configure an NCSA-style username and password authentication lets assume that squid is installed and working fine following the guide here Tip: Before going further, test basic Squid functionality. Make sure squid is functioning without requiring authorization Step # 1...

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Google Browser

Google Chrome or also known as Google's Browser Project The world has long assumed that the Google team working on Firefox simply moved off to another project. That assumption is true. The real question is: What project are they working on? It was September 2006 when Mozilla Corporation CTO Brendan...

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