Open Source

How to Install Elgg – An open, flexible social networking engine

Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea. Elgg is open source. That means, when you use Elgg, you have [...]

How to Install Zimbra on Ubuntu

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 5.0 is a truly modern, innovative messaging and collaboration application. Zimbra is the leading open source solution for enterprise, service provider, education, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits. It’s no wonder Zimbra is a popular choice for today’s growing Mac and Linux email server base. Ajax based [...]

What is FreeTDS ?

FreeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases. Technically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for their own clients. It supports many different flavors of the protocol [...]

How to setup svn repositories accessible through http

Subversion is an application used for version control, it is meant to become a replacement of CVS Concurrent Versions System. Subversion is also known as svn.

This how-to will show how to setup svn repositories accessible throught http by using apache2 and the DAV module.

A Quick Guide To Install SUBVERSION

Subversion depends on a number of third party tools and libraries.Some of them are only required to run a Subversion server; others are necessary just for a Subversion client. This section explains what other tools and libraries will be required so that Subversion can be built with the set of features you want

How to Install JIRA Standalone under Linux with MySQL

JIRA is an issue-tracking project management tool made by Atlassian. It is primarily used by the Second Life open source community and may be referred to as the “Public JIRA”, “PJIRA”, or just “JIRA”, depending on the context. There is a script available to install JIRA on linux system ,  It will take only 5 [...]

How to Install and Configure PHP-Nuke – Content management system

What is PHP-Nuke? PHP-Nuke is a web based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL. The main aim of PHP-Nuke is to allow a webmaster to create a community-based portal, with an automated web site allowing users and editors to post items. Users can comment on these articles using the [...]

How to take ClamWin Free Antivirus with you on a USB pen drive, CD or DVD

Looking for free Open Source Antivirus for Windows? Download ClamWin Free Antivirusand get free virus scanning and free virus definition updates.ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. Anti-virus software tends to be big and bloated, use plenty of RAM and system resources, and generally clog up your system. Worse is that increasingly, anti-virus makers make it difficult to buy [...]

How to Install and Configure pfSense – A free, open source firewall and router

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. [...]

How to Run an OpenVPN server on a dynamic IP address

While OpenVPN clients can easily access the server via a dynamic IP address without any special configuration, things get more interesting when the server itself is on a dynamic address. While OpenVPN has no trouble handling the situation of a dynamic server, some extra configuration is required. The first step is to get a dynamic [...]

How to install dimdim on ubuntu linux

Dimdim is a cool new open source meeting service that lets you share your desktop, presentations, audio and video. Its also web based, and needs no installing. On top of all this, it works on Mac, Linux and even Windows! Its still alpha at the moment, but definately useable. Heres how to install it on [...]

A cool new open source meeting service that lets you share your desktop, presentations, audio and video

Dimdim is a cool new open source meeting service that lets you share your desktop, presentations, audio and video. Its also web based, and needs no installing. On top of all this, it works on Mac, Linux and even Windows! In today’s business environment with globally distributed workforce, it is not realistic to have face-to-face [...]

The world’s leading open source telephony engine – Asterisk

What is Asterisk Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions…for free. Asterisk® is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and it is available for download [...]

How to Configure OpenVPN to run automatically on system startup

The lack of standards in this area means that most OSes have a different way of configuring daemons/services for autostart on boot. The best way to have this functionality configured by default is to install OpenVPN as a package, such as via RPM on Linux or using the Windows installer. Linux If you install OpenVPN [...]

How to Install RoundCube WebMail

Roundcube webmail is modern webmail solution which is easy to install and configure. Roundcube webmail runs on a standard PHP/MySQL configuration. The skins use the latest web standards such as XHTML and CSS. The roundcube project includes open-source classes/libraries like PEAR and the IMAP wrapper from IlohaMail.org.