Posts by Guoan Xiao (Admin)

change hostname

3 Methods To Change the Hostname of Your Linux Machine

This tutorial explains 3 methods to change the hostname of your Linux machine. Check the current hostname You can use…

Install Arch Linux in Virtualbox with UEFI Firmware

Install Arch Linux in Virtualbox with UEFI Firmware in 2019

Hello and welcome. Arch Linux is one of my favourite Linux distros. It’s a rolling release, which means there’s no…

MariaDB Master-Slave Replication

How to Set up MariaDB Master-Slave Replication on Debian 8

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a simple MariaDB master-slave replication. By simple I mean…

How To Compile PHP7 From Source on Raspbian Jessie

How To Compile PHP7 From Source on Raspbian Jessie

This tutorial explains how to compile PHP7 from source and installing it to Raspbian Jessie OS. I’m using the low…

compile mariadb from source on Raspbian Jessie

How to Compile MariaDB From Source on Raspbian Jessie

This tutorial explains how to compile MariaDB from source on Raspbian Jessie and how to use Systemd to manage MariaDB…

compile Nginx from source

How To Compile Nginx From Source and Install on Raspbian Jessie

In this tutorial we are going to look at how to compile Nginx mainline version (1.9.12 at the time of…

Install LEMP Stack on OpenSUE Leap

Install LEMP stack (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install the LEMP stack (Nginx, MariaDB and PHP) on OpenSUSE…

Install PhpStorm on Ubuntu

An IDE For PHP: Install PhpStorm on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

For those of you who don’t know, PhpStorm is a cool, lightning-smart IDE for PHP developers. It’s a commercial and cross-platform…

Install Oracle Java 8 on Debian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Via PPA

In a previous tutorial, I showed you how to install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS…

Install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu based Linux distributions, including  Ubuntu…

how to install mariadb database server on ubuntu

How to Install MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial will be showing you how to install MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 server. MariaDB is…

Install MariaDB 10.1 on Debian 8

How to Install MariaDB 10.1 on Debian 8

MariaDB 10.1 is the latest stable release and some interesting new features it implemented are as follows: built-in galera cluster…

Install Spotify Stable on Ubuntu

How to Install Spotify on Debian, Ubuntu, Elementary OS

This tutorial will show you how to install Spotify music player client on Debian, Ubuntu, and Elementary OS. Install Spotify…

Ubuntu startup applications

How to Show Hidden Ubuntu Startup Applications

Today, I’m going to explain how to show the hidden Ubuntu startup applications. First, enter startup in the Dash and…

UEFI

Explaining UEFI Firmware for Linux Users

Today let’s take a loot at the firmware of our computer. Specifically, we will focus on BIOS and UEFI. UEFI…

zypper

Introduction to Zypper Package manager For OpenSUSE and SLE

Zypper is the command line package manager on openSUSE and SLE. It’s also a repository manager, having the capability of…

variety wallpaper

Install Variety Wallpaper Changer on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Archlinux

In a previous post, I showed you how to install and configure Variety Wallpaper on OpenSUSE Leap. You may want…

zypper

Make OpenSUSE Beautiful: Install Variety Wallpaper Changer

The Gnome edition of OpenSUSE Leap is not very eye-catching. Let’s start making it beautiful. Today we are going to…

Backup Linux Server

How to Use BitTorrent Sync to Backup Linux Server

This tutorial explains how to install and use BitTorrent Sync to automatically backup Linux server. BitTorrent Sync allows you to…

How to Install Nginx Mainline Version on CentOS7

The official Nginx release has two versions: stable version and mainline version. The mainline version contains the newest and greatest…