Entries Related to ‘CentOS’

MySQL isn’t the only mature and feature-rich open source database; rival PostgreSQL can be an equally good choice. And if you know how to manage MySQL, you can learn how to handle PostgreSQL fairly quickly.

The Java-based Liferay intranet portal offers an organization’s users the ability to publish and collaborate on documents and web content, and offers social networking features.

Ever felt bewildered when troubleshooting a problem with your CentOS server? These troubleshooting tools and best practices can help you solve most of your problems swiftly and efficiently.

MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia and countless other wiki-based websites. This guide walks you through installing MediaWiki and offers some tips and tricks for configuring it to make it more useful.

The Wireshark network protocol analyzer can zero in on just the network traffic you want to see to tell you things like whether your encryption is working, or find infected hosts on your network.

While the popular Nagios application is a good real-time monitoring program, you can better track both uptime and performance by employing Cacti to monitor and collect device information.

LibreOffice is the best open source software suite available today. Good as it is, you can make LibreOffice more useful by adding extensions, templates, and fonts.

Want to build graphical applications that run on multiple platforms? Try wxWidgets, an open source library designed to make it easy to create cross-platform GUI apps.

ViewVC is a full-featured browser interface for the CVS and Subversion version control systems (VCS). Even hard-core command-line users will find something to like in this GUI front end.

Whether you need more disk space or an easy way to share files on your network, you can turn to NFS, a distributed filesystem for which support is integrated in the Linux kernel.