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So, I want to take a shell script and be able to put it on any machine - and have it backup the databases on that machine using mysqldump.. and put them each separately into a backup directory.. here's what I came up with.

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While trying to keep up with everything going on right now it is good to see that the Desura client open source is still going ahead and an unofficial update has been posted on the forum

Sonia Ouarti from Canonical announced a couple of days ago, December 2nd, that the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and devops expert Clint Byrum will hold a webinar about Juju, this Thursday, December 8th at 3pm GMT.

MegaGlest is a free, open-source real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy universe, based on a 3D engine, with support for single player, multi player, and mods. It’s available on Linux, Windows, and, starting with this release, also OS X.

Gnome 3 extensions have breathed a new life in those disgruntled Ubuntu users who were looking elsewhere due to the lack of customisation of Unity. The rating jump that LinuxMint enjoyed on Distrowatch was a strong indicator which some Ubuntu fans tried to shot down as 'useless'. I don't want to get into that, I have already wrote about it. Unity may work perfectly fine for a majority of users, especially if you are using a netbook with tiny screen. For, those who are looking elsewhere due to lack of customisation of Unity, don't worry. Now, you can customise your Ubuntu and get back to work.Here are the top 6 extensions that I am using on Ubuntu and have started loving it again. It's the best of both worlds -- stability and power of Debian (with PPA) with customisation of Gnome 3 shell.

LibrePlan is a new web-based collaborative application that allows you to plan, monitor and control your projects, via a rich web interface that provides a desktop-like user experience.

There are lots of reasons for computer users to turn to one of several Linux distributions for their homes and businesses. In this article, I've listed five of what I believe are the most compelling ones.

Among other big ticket announcements during recently concluded Ubuntu Developer Summit(UDS) was Ubuntu Unity's foray into Mobile and TV space. This was an exciting development to everyone in the community and user-contributed design mockups have been pouring in ever since. We had featured a bunch of really interesting Unity Mobile mockups before, now it's the turn of Unity TV based design mockups and ideas. Read on.

At the request of many of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to teach them how to easily move the window buttons from left to right side in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems.

Weather applications play an essential role in helping people make informed decisions about day-to-day activities. Having the latest forecasts on the move can be extremely valuable. This type of software also provides timely warnings of extreme weather, to help people protect life and property.

From the 'Don't always believe what you read' files: There has been some 'confusion' in recent days about the status of Mozilla's relationship with Google. Some have speculated (incorrectly) that the deal is over, leaving Mozilla without its chief source of revenue.

When you provision virtual machines, you try to ensure that they have the storage that they need. But as we all know, storage needs tend to change over time. If you have KVM machines that need more space, we can up their storage with tools you already have handy. Two methods we're going to use today are adding file-based storage as a separate partition, and increasing the size of the virtual machine's storage volume.

There are a lot of new options to explore in CentOS 6 during install, be sure that you have a basic understanding of what the options are before you begin the installation. One important aspect is to understand what type of hardware will be used for the server, hardware or software RAID, LVM, ext3 or ext4, etc.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Boudewijn Rempt writes about the 2.4 version of Krita. In addition, the usual list of updates: Progress in the work to separate QGraphicsView from libplasma Calligra sees work on docx support and autocolor Telepathy sees UI refactoring; there is now extended away support and dialog-less setup for link-local XMPP read more

This article is about how to create a DVD image of the Ubuntu distribution on your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Remastersys. Remastersys allows you to either create iso-backups of your whole system, including the home folder, or just backups of the installed software, leaving the home folder aside.

It's obvious that the MPAA has their greasy hands all over this decision, and there is probably little doubt that any licensing agreement between LoveFilms and the content owners was contingent upon them switching over to Silverlight. Duh....I figured that all out on my own

As you might have heard in many other places a bunch of GNOME and WebKit hackers have met in rainy Coruña for the 3rd WebKitGTK+ hackfest. Many things have been discussed, but today I’m going to give a sneak preview of the new design for Epiphany...

If you routinely use multiple computers, it can be a challenge to keep your data files organized and to manage multiple login IDs. OpenSSH can help you with those tasks. It’s a powerful, secure tool that lets you share files without having to set up a file server, run applications remotely, and perform remote administration chores quickly and securely. You probably already know how to use OpenSSH for file transfers. Here we’ll uncover some less well-known OpenSSH tricks that can make life easier for roaming computer users.

LXDE is a desktop environment that it is little-known compared to the big names, KDE and GNOME. It deserves more publicity and the developers cannot be too highly praised.

I am Linux person in heart, and by no doubt support Linux. That's why let me talk about my Advantages of Using Linux.