Linux date command is used to set and display date and time in the command line terminal. It is quite an interesting command which allows user to customize the result format when viewing the system date. If we view command manual page, it says that Linux date command prints or set the system date and time. That means other than displaying date and calendar, date command also capable of managing date and time for Linux system.

Here is Linux date command information as you can find it in the manual page:

If you are planning on setting up your own web server (http server) using Slackware Linux, then the Apache http server would be the perfect choice. It is a stable and secure web server and works very well with Linux. Apache http server is The World’s #1 Web Server Tops Linux Journal’s Reader’s Choice Awards.

This is a basic configuration of Joomla 1.0.x setup in Slackware Linux web server. Joomla is a open source content management system widely used as a website, blog and forum by many individuals and organisations. You need to prepare several things first before start to configure Joomla. Here are the prerequisites:

• Setup Web server.


• Setup MySQL database.

The Setup Linux web server - Install and configure Apache in Slackware tutorial is a basic guide if need it.

A guide on mysql setup can be found in Setup and configure MYSQL in Slackware Linux tutorial.

Linux locate command is a search utility in Linux. It can be found by default in almost all Linux distributions including Slackware and Ubuntu Linux. This tutorial is a basic locate command guide for a new Linux user. If you view locate command manual page, you will see the slocate command manual instead. The locate command has been replaced with slocate but the usage is almost the same as locate command. Below is information about slocate command that you can find in manual page:

Ubuntu team with the support of community and Canonical Ltd. has released the new version, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu server 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope a few weeks ago. Although, the Ubuntu 8.10 still has supports until 2010, Ubuntu recommends users to upgrade their operating system to the latest version available. Here is a step by step guide on how to upgrade Ubuntu Desktop 8.10 to the latest version 9.04 with screenshots.

If you are using Ubuntu version older than Ubuntu 8.10, please update to the next version first. Do not skip upgrade to the latest version to avoid system damage. If you aren't sure what version your Ubuntu is, you can use lsb_release -a command to check your current Ubuntu version. For example:

Mysql is a popular open source database which being used as database server by many organizations around the world. Normally, Mysql is used together with PHP server-side scripting language, Apache web server and Linux as the server platform. This tutorial is a step by step guide on how to setup and configure mysql in Slackware Linux. If you are looking for this, then let's get started now.

First thing to do is to check whether mysql user and mysql group already exist in the system. You should have them if you installed mysql package during Slackware 12.2 installation.

Slackware Linux does not include unrar in default installation. You need to install unrar manually to extract rar file. Go to Slackbuild website and search for unrar.

Download source and slackbuild scripts.

When the download finished, switch to Slackware command line terminal and login as root. You can also open root shell in kde. Click Start --> System --> More Applications --> Terminal Program - Super User Mode.

You can always use Slackware package management tool such as slackpkg to upgrade software or install security patches for your Slackware system. However, the ftp server mirrors took sometimes to update the latest software or security patches to their server. So the best way is to upgrade them yourself. This is an example on how to upgrade software or install security patches for Slackware Linux. First thing you need to do is to subscribe the Slackware security mailing list from Slackware website. To do this, visit Slackware mailing list at Slackware official website. The picture below is an example of the current Slackware mailing list page:

This tutorial is a complete guide for setting up bind dns server in Linux operating system. We'll setup bind version 9 in Slackware Linux 12.2. Here are all the steps needed to setup dns server in Slackware Linux: