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Setting up a Git Repository on A Remote Server
Git is a wonderful distributed version control system and we can have a personal repository quickly set up without any technical difficulties. However at times we may need to work on shared development model where multiple people need commit access … Continue reading
Time-zone Setting in Linux and BSDs from Shell
Often the default time-zone in a linux and bsd system does not match our preferences. On a system which we have installed ourself, we may have selected the appropriate time-zone during installation, but as systems administrators we often get our … Continue reading
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Tagged CentOS, date-and-time, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, timezone
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FreeBSD 9.1 on Thinkpad T420
Very recently I was thinking of trying FreeBSD operating system on a laptop as a desktop system. FreeBSD is an excellent UNIX class of operating systems primarily used as a server on internet. Among other things the operating system posses … Continue reading
Creating a DEB package for Oracle Java
Linux based operating systems comes by default with Open JDK installations. Often it is necessary for various developmental needs to install the Oracle Java. Oracle only supplies two installations of Java for Linux based operating systems – a rpm and … Continue reading
Installing Mutt on Mac OS X
Apple’s Mac OS X has a beautiful graphical user interface, but under that there is a solid unix foundation. OS X is based on FreeBSD. This unix foundation has allowed OS X to have a native unix command line interface … Continue reading