package management

Michael Nitschinger has a new post to his blog looking at using the popular Composer tool for package management together with Lithium to make dependency management simpler.

Justin Carmony has a new tutorial posted to his blog today about setting up Nginx and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu in a few easy steps (thanks to some package management).

LinuxBSDos.com: "It is made up of three graphical applications – Muon Package Manager, Muon Software Center, and Muon Updater."

Linux Career: Package management on Linux systems has always been the subject of endless discussions, flamefests and bickering.

Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes w

A few days ago I told the story of ruby-head (MRI) getting 36% faster loading, perfect for tackling those file-heavy Rails 3 apps.

Awesome for Ruby 1.9.3 but not so good for us now, right?

Ahead of referencing it at my PHP Tek 11 talk, I finally got round to pushing the LibSVM extension I knocked up (with the help of Mikko) into PECL.

You'll need libsvm out of package management (e.g.

Toorox is a Gentoo-based installable live CD that features your choice of KDE or GN

You can remove a package from your system using APT. To do this just type: apt-get remove package. For example:

$ sudo apt-get remove dictators EGYPT ████████████████ : done TUNISIA ████████████████ : done LIBYA ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░ : in progress

Try Ubuntu.

It’s free.

Linux Journal: "PCLinuxOS is a rolling release distribution, which means users can usually update through the package management rather than perform a fresh install every six months."