Bugzilla is the best open source bug tracking system. Very simple to use with lot of features. Bugzilla allows you to track the bugs and collaborate with developers and other teams in your organization effectively. This is a detailed step-by-step bugzilla installation guide for Linux. 1. Verify Perl Version Make sure your perl version is [...]
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inotify utility is an effective tool to monitor and notify filesystem changes. You can specify a list of files and directories that needs to be monitored by inotify. This library is used by various other programs. For example, CPAN module Linux::Inotify is developed based on this library. iNotify Execution Flow On a high-level, you do [...]
Here is a list of few Easter eggs on Linux/UNIX and related software. How did your Easter egg hunt go? Did you find anything? Share it with us. 1. Free the Fish On Ubuntu (actually, on GNOME), press Alt-F2 to launch the “run application” window and type “free the fish” to free a cute little [...]
Here is a list of few April Fool’s Day prank ideas to fool your friends. Some of them are very old and yet effective. What is your favorite April Fool’s Day prank? Take a screen-shot of the desktop and set it as their desktop background image. Disable the top/bottom panels on their desktop to make [...]
As part of the contest we conducted recently, we got 160+ comments from the geeky readers who choose their favorite database. Based on this data, the top spot goes to.. drum roll please.. MySQL If you are new to any of the top 5 database mentioned here, please read the rest of the article to [...]
Read technical blogs – There are several technical blogs out there, that produce high quality content everyday. There are 9600+ technology blogs listed in the technorati website. Browse the technology blog list and read the blogs that interests you. As always you can browse our blog archive section for Linux related articles that you might [...]
If you are using Gmail, you might have already noticed the ‘Buzz’ link right below your inbox. Google buzz looks like a combination of twitter and facebook features built right in your email application. What do you think about Google Buzz? Do you like it? Note: If you are interested, you can follow my google [...]
I’m happy to announce winners of the 2 books giveaway contest. Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book. Linux Firewall Book Winner: Frank Q (comment #93) Learning jQuery 1.3 Book Winner: Sigurdur Jonsson (comment #133) Since there were 154 awesome comments, I generated two random numbers between [...]
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