Nextcloud is a free and open source file hosting solution which allows the users to keep and sync their files, mails, contacts and calendars from their mobile devices and desktop client to nextcloud server. Nextcloud is founded by the co-founder of ownCloud ‘Frank Karlitschek‘ Some … Read more
Cobbler is a free and open source Linux provisioning server, it is used for unattended or automatic os installation on multiple systems simultaneously over the network. Cobbler server makes use of services like DHCP, TFTP and DNS. In Cobbler OS installation is based on the … Read more
LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a good way to use the disk space on the server more efficiently. One of the benefits of LVM is that we can take the snapshots of lvm based partitions and can create thinly provisioned logical volumes. Thin Provisioning allows … Read more
ONLYOFFICE is a free and open source corporate office suite used to organize the teamwork online. It is composed of three separate servers: Community Server offers 8 modules and tools: People to store and manage the contact information of all the team members. Projects to … Read more
KVM is an open source hardware virtualization software through which we can create and run multiple Linux based and windows based virtual machines simultaneously. KVM is known as Kernel based Virtual Machine because when we install KVM package then KVM module is loaded into the … Read more
LAMP stack is a collection of free and open source softwares like Linux, Web Server (Apache), Database server (MySQL / MariaDB) and PHP (Scripting Language). LAMP is the platform which is required to install and build dynamic web sites and application like WordPress, Joomla, OpenCart … Read more
Foreman is a free and open source configuration management and provisioning tool for physical and virtual servers. Foreman performs the repetitive and other configuration tasks using the tools like puppet, chef and Ansible. For provisioning, Foreman make the use of DHCP, DNS, TFTP and kickstart … Read more
PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) Server allows unattended or automated OS installation over the Network.The main benefit of pxe is that we don’t need any bootable drive to boot OS(Operating system) and we do not need to to burn any ISO file into DVD or usb … Read more
The most awaited Debian based Operating system Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been released recently. Below are the top 10 task that one should do after the installation of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to make the system more usable. 1. Update the system & Package repositories. The … Read more
The much awaited update Cinnamon 3.0, the popular desktop for GNU / Linux environments has been released on April 25, 2016. Cinnamon 3.0 is based on the GTK+3 toolkit and is the default DE(Desktop Environment) of Linux Mint. Released in 2011 as just a fork … Read more
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS code name ‘Xenial Xerus‘ has been released recently on 21st April 2016. As this release is under LTS(Long Term Support) so its Desktop support will be for next 5 years and Server support will be for next 3 years. Some of new … Read more
Kolab is a free and Open source groupware software for Unix like operating system. Kolab Groupware provides solution for email server (SMTP), Calender / Events, Address book (LDAP) and more. Kolab can be accessed via various clients like Outlook in Windows, KDE (Kontact) in Linux … Read more
