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Comparion of service and chkconfig commands against systemctl utility

Updated 30 Sep 2015 Read time 57 sec(s) (836 visits).

A short article providing a comparision between the service and systemctl utilities, and between the chkconfig and systemctl utilities

Updated 11 Aug 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 27 sec(s) (597 visits).

Unlike Upstart in Oracle Linux 6, the systemd daemon now replaces Upstart in managing system run levels and services.

Updated 18 Feb 2016 Read time 1 min 50 sec(s) (487 visits).

A Comparison of Popular Linux Package Managers

Updated 17 May 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 0 sec(s) (565 visits).

This article provides a quick reference guide for the open SuSE operating system

Updated 14 Jan 2015 Read time 29 sec(s) (2225 visits).

This article provides the simple steps needed to uninstall the VMware workstation from a Linux host. You must run the command from a Linux server.

Updated 19 Dec 2014 Read time 1 min 39 sec(s) (2444 visits).

This post provides a basic installation and configuration of Tomcat 7 on a CentOS 7 server.

Updated 11 Dec 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 15 sec(s) (2737 visits).

LAMP is a popular server stack using apache to deliver dynamic content; LEMP utilises ngnix to achieve the same open source technologies.

Updated 20 Nov 2014 Read time 1 min 29 sec(s) (2845 visits).

RPM is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages.

Updated 2 Sep 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 18 sec(s) (2397 visits).

Unlike OEL/RHEL/CentOS 6, manually appending “HOSTNAME=xxxxx” into file /etc/sysconfig/network and restarting system will not work on version 7.

Updated 20 Aug 2014 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2524 visits).

A simple article providing the steps necessary to get GeoIP working with PHP on Ubuntu systems.