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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 25, 2023

VirtualBox 7 on Fedora 38: A Complete Installation Guide

VirtualBox 7 + Fedora 38: The perfect combination for virtualization enthusiasts. Our installation guide has all the details.
Installing and Using Yarn on Ubuntu

Yarn is a powerful JavaScript package manager that is compatible with npm and helps automate the process of installing, updating, configuring, and removing npm packages. Yarn provides speed and reliability by caching downloaded packages and parallelizing operations. In this tutorial, we will cover how to install both the latest version and classic version of Yarn on Ubuntu, along with an overview of basic Yarn commands and options.
How to install XFCE GUI on AWS Ubuntu EC2 Instance

Whether you are running Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 or any other version of this Linux, here we learn the commands to install XFCE GUI on Ubuntu Linux running on AWS EC2 Instance.
Redis Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Redis on AlmaLinux 9

Redis is a popular and open-source in-memory key-value data store. It supports various data structures such as Hash, Lists, Sets, Strings, and many more. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure Redis on the AlmaLinux 9 server.
How to Install Cacti on Rocky Linux

Cacti is an open-source web-based monitoring tool based on PHP and MySQL. This guide will teach you how to install the cacti monitoring tool on the Rocky Linux system.
How to Customize Ubuntu 23.04 to Look Like macOS

Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster, released in April 2023, brings forth many exciting features. Despite intense competition from OSes such as macOS and Windows, Ubuntu has still managed to create a niche for itself in the market.

If you are an Ubuntu aficionado fascinated by macOS’s layout, you can imbibe the look and feel onto your Ubuntu 23.04 desktop. With these basic but effective methods, you can make Ubuntu look like macOS.

So let’s start customizing your Ubuntu 23.04 desktop so it looks like macOS.

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