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Good news Ubuntu lovers. Meet a new desktop namely “The Meerkat Ubuntu Desktop” from System76. As the name says, the Meerkat desktop will be shipped with Ubuntu operating system preinstalled. Hope the pre-installed Ubuntu will LTS(Long term support) version.

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Network bonding is a method of combining (joining) two or more network interfaces together into a single interface. It will increase the network throughput, bandwidth and will give redundancy. If one interface is down or unplugged, the other one will keep the network traffic up and alive. Network bonding can be used in situations wherever you need redundancy, fault tolerance or load balancing networks.

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As you may know, .VDI is the default and usable format in VirtualBox. VDI file, stands for Virtual Disk Image, is a standard virtual hard drive that can be mounted as a separate hard disk while creating a new virtual machine using VirtualBox. It can be created either fixed or dynamically allocated.

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To manage your businesses and your websites remotely you need to use control panel. With such tool you will have the possibility to manage all your web services under the same location which is very fantastic. Without control panel, you will need to install or compile specific tools such as: Php, MySQL and others on your host server which is not usually recommended with normal people. Since they need to have technical knowledge. With control panel, no expert knowledge of server administration is needed, just install it and benefit of its features. These web based control panels offers you the possibility also to manage your emails accounts, FTP accounts, disk space, bandwidth and many others.

The go-to media player of millions, VLC 2.2 ‘Weathermax’ was released this weekend and brings some nifty new features to the desktop.

After two years of hard work, the Xfce development team had the pleasure of announcing a few minutes ago, February 28, the immediate and general availability of the highly anticipated Xfce 4.12 desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

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Mostly, you will find maximum supported RAM by your system from the BIOS, Product catalog, or manuals. Here is the simple, yet useful trick, to find out maximum supported RAM using Dmidecode without opening the system chassis or referring the BIOS, product catalogs.

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The Linux monitoring systems are often used to follow system resources, such as CPU load, the amount of free RAM, network traffic statics or memory consumption. Which are ones from the most important tasks for every administrators. Furthermore, those tools notify the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) when something interrupts or goes down which makes their life easier.

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Cacti is an open source web based network monitoring tool front-end for the data logging tool called RRDtool. It’s allow users to check the services at an interval of time and resulting in the graph format.

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Logwatch is a system log analyzer and reporter. This tutorial covers the installation of Logwtach and explains various config options incl. reporting of notable log events by email.

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Virtualmin is a Webmin module for managing multiple virtual hosts through a single interface, like Plesk or Cpanel. It supports the creation and management of Apache virtual hosts, BIND DNS domains, MySQL databases, and mailboxes and aliases with Sendmail or Postfix. It makes use of the existing Webmin modules for these servers, and so should work with any existing system configuration, rather than needing it’s own mail server, web server and so on.

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We all know that we can download videos from popular websites like YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo etc. There are many applications available to download from those sites. But, the problem is some websites doesn’t allow you to save videos to a different format. You can only download the videos in the given format by those sites. Ofcourse, there are plenty of tools available to convert the downloaded videos to different formats. However, downloading videos using one tool, and then convert them to another format using another tool might be definitely time wasting process. This is where ClipGrab comes in handy.

Ben Hutchings, the maintainer of the Linux 3.2 kernel branch, had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and upgrade of a new maintenance release for Linux kernel 3.2, version 3.2.67, urging users to update to it as soon as possible. Linux 3.2.67 kernel is a long-term supported version mostly used on very stable environments or embedded systems.

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Access Control List (ACL) provides an additional, more flexible permission mechanism for file systems. ACLs allow you to provide different levels of access to files and folders for different users. It is designed to assist with UNIX file permissions. ACL allows you to give permissions for any user or group to any disc resource.

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This document describes how to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Generally, the Ubuntu .04 versions that get released every 2 years are Long Term Support (LTS) releases, for instance Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 etc. Effectively, this means that the LTS release comes supported with bug fixes and security updates for as long as 5 years, hence users would not have the privilege of being alerted through popups urging them to install the latest available version.

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Xibo is a great content management system that can be used for Digital Signage which is a form of electronic display used to show messages to the public mainly in the advertisement industry. It is free of charge and this tutorial will help you to learn how to install it on an Ubuntu machine.

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This document describes how to install and configure WordPress MU with the latest version in market of WordPress 4 on Ubuntu 14.04. WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. This tutorial explains the process of installing WordPress 4.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 in the form of a simple-to-follow guide.

Linux is omnipresent, even if you don‘t realize it. I have been using Linux as my only OS since 2005 and with every passing year I come to realize that it has much more to offer than I initially, back in 2005, understood. There is something for everyone. In this article, I have picked some of the best Linux distros to help you get the job done.

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This method should work on ESXi/Vsphere/Vmware Workstation. Please follow the following instructions, It is same for installing vmware tools for linux.

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As you may know, CIA, Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability, is the main key elements of Information Security. The main Job of a System Administrator/Security expert is to protect the data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, destruction, and modification. There are n number of tools and methods are available out there to secure your data. The one we will discuss today is VeraCrypt.

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Quota allows you to specify limits on two aspects of disk storage: the number of inodes a user or a group of users may possess; and the number of disk blocks that may be allocated to a user or a group of users. The idea behind quota is that users are forced to stay under their disk consumption limit, taking away their ability to consume unlimited disk space on a system. Quota is handled on a per user, per file system basis. If there is more than one file system which a user is expected to create files, then quota must be set for each file system separately. Various tools are available for you to administer and automate quota policies on your system.

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During every login or bootup, the OS performs a number of tasks in the background to get the OS up and running and ready to be used. Customizations in Linux OS like Ubuntu can be done very easily, that allows an user to add any number of "custom" tasks or programs to the system to be performed every time the user logs in or boots up the OS.

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WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) on the internet. It allows you to easily set up flexible blogs and websites on top of a MySQL backend with PHP processing. WordPress has seen incredible adoption and is a great choice for getting a website up and running quickly.