CentOS

Having recently move to Jekyll as my blogging platform, I thought I would take a quick look at how easy it is to get going on Linux. Installation on CentOS 7 is very straight forward. First add the EPEL repository for CentOS 7 as this is where you will find the nodejs rpm sudo yum install http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm Install the required packages, note npm is not required but handy to have around. sudo yum install nodejs npm ruby ruby-devel rubygems git gem install jekyll Start using Jekyll. ...

HHVM is a virtual machine for Hack and PHP it uses JIT to improve performance. Installation on a less than bleeding edge OS can prove a little challenging. What follows is what I did to get it up and going quickly for our developers in our CentOS 6.5 environment. It may work for you too. Packages were sourced from two repo’s http://yum.gleez.com/ and http://remi.conetix.com.au/ Things boiled down to these 11 packages that were signed and added to our local yum repo: ...