How To Secure MariaDB Server with mysql_secure_installation command

The mysql_secure_installation command helps us to improve the security of the MariaDB installation. With this command, You can set a password for root accounts. You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. You can remove anonymous-user accounts. You can remove the test database (which by default can be accessed by […]

Upgrade from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10

Today we will be looking in how to upgrade Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10, this will take a approx 30 mins to complete; it also depends on internet speed. Before upgrading, it is recommended to take a backup of important files to secure location. You can do on own risk. Follow the steps to upgrade. […]

How to update CentOS 6.2/6.3/6.4 to CentOS 6.5

CentOS community has released its major release of CentOS 6.5 on 1st December 2013, Since from the day of release every one is looking for upgrading the current version to latest CentOS release. This how to is mainly focusing on upgrading previous release of CentOS 6.x to the latest. Before going to update, lets look […]

Install Apache OpenOffice 4 on Fedora 19

Apache OpenOffice, commonly known as OpenOffice.org, OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source office productivity software suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit.

How to clear Swap Memory in Linux / CentOS / RHEL

Virtual Memory is called as Swap space in Linux and  is used when the physical memory (RAM) is full. When the system needs more memory and the RAM is full, inactive pages in the memory will be moved to the swap space. Swap is not a replacement to physical memory,  it is just a small […]