Entries from June 2008

June 28, 2008

Running PHP Applications on Linux

Overview:
I usually find that lots of poeple find it quite difficult to install any application made in PHP and MySQL on their Linux boxes. They find it a bit confusing how to configure the settings. How to install the LAMP stack. Where to put the PHP applications code. I was quite inspired to write to [...]

June 22, 2008

Choosing a Linux distro

As all of you might be knowing that distro is a short name for Linux Distributions, here I list many distros which have gained a lot ground of late and can be truly called desktop OS. Some information are also appended along with them so that you can make a nice decision. All comments,suggestion and [...]

June 21, 2008

What is GRUB or a bootloader?

GRUB is an abbreviation for GRand Unified Bootloader, its actually a product of the GNU project aimed at creating a bootloader which can boot nearly all operating systems. So now what is a bootloader? We shall now know this in nearly a layman’s approach.
When you switch on your computer, it fetches which operating system to [...]