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What is the 'Oracle Virtual Machine' and how to install it

What is the Oracle Virtual Machine? VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. In other words is an emulator for Operative systems, for example if you have a Windows 10 and you want to have Linux or any other without going through all the complicated installation process then you can just install it with the emulator assigning the amount of space and resources that you want to use on it. How to install the Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Step 1: Download the OVM from the main page: Step 2: Select the operating system you are going to be using to host the OVM Step 3: Install, After you...

What is C++ and how to install Eclipse Helios IDE

What is C++? is a general-purpose programming language. It has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing facilities for low-level memory manipulation. Eclipse Helios IDE There are different versions of Eclipse, this one 'Helios' is specific for C++ coding and we are going to see how to install it Step 1: Go to Eclipse webpage to download it step 2: After you finish downloading it you will get a Zip file with the name of the Eclipse you just download, open it and extract it and after that you are going to run it and this is going to be your final product. (Did on linux cause I already did install it on windows) Step 3: Open and enjoy Hope it was clear and easy for everyone.

What is Eclipse IDE and how to install

What is Eclipse? Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming, and is the most widely used Java IDE. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Eclipse is written mostly in Java and its primary use is for developing Java applications, but it may also be used to develop applications in other programming languages via plug-ins, including C, C++, Fortran, JavaScript, and others. Development environments include the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) for Java and Scala, Eclipse CDT for C/C++, and Eclipse PDT for PHP, among others. How to install Eclipse Step 1: First we are going to download Eclipse at their website, make sure you select the correct OS. Step 2: After you finish downloading it you will get a Zip file with the name of the Eclipse you just download, open it and extract it and after that you are going to run it and this is going to be ...

Eclipse: How to install Maven in your fedora system

What is Maven? Maven is a project management and comprehension tool. Maven provides developers a complete build life-cycle framework. Development team can automate the project's build infrastructure in almost no time as Maven uses a standard directory layout and a default build life-cycle. How to Install: Go to their web page Maven and go to instalation After you hit the link you are going to open your eclipse and go to the HELP tab and you are going to select the option Install a new software and you are going to copy paste the link at the top of the web to the "Work with" blank space, make sure you select a name that make sense with the application in this case we are going to use Maven. Make sure to accept all the certificates from maven to finish the installation After you have finish all the whole installation you will need to reset eclipse, after you have finish restarting eclipse go to New -> New Project -> Other and you will...

If and else statements on Shell/Linux Terminal

If and Else if and else are conditions statement that can be very useful and we are going to learn how to use them, lets first start our terminal and create a file in which we are going to create a simple security password program We are about to create our script I have name it test and we are going to type the following we are going to create a variable called VALID_PASSWORD with the value "secret", this means our password is secret (yes the actual password is secret), then we are going to read the value the user introduce with read PASSWORD the if statement here will compare what the user introduce in PASSWORD with VALID_PASSWORD!, IF they are equal then it will print you have access if not then it will print ACCESS_DENIED! is very important to close the IF statement with an 'FI' (FI closes the IF statement) I hope this was useful and detailed enough to help you understand how does if and else works. to try this all you need is 'bash...

What is GitHub and how to use it

What is GitHub? GitHub is a web based Git or a version control repository and internet hosting service. It offers: Distributed version Control Source Code Management Plans for free and private repositories on the same account Host Open source software projects Is a very useful tool for projects, can be accessed and manipulated using the standard git command line interface and all of the standard git commands works with it, github allows registered and not registered users to browse public repositories on the site it does also provides a social networking function such as: Feeds Followers Wikis Social network graph How to use it? Step 1: lets go to GitHub Step 2: Create an account / Log in Step 3: Choose your plan, After you have create an account it will ask you if you want to be a free user or if you want to pay for it Step 4: Choose your l...