Running your own Git server with GitlabHQ on Ubuntu 14.04

This document describes how to install and configure Git and GitHub. These are great tools to manage and administer a whole host of Git repositories and the associated permissions. So, these remain true blessings for users writing open source software, however, when writing a closed source software may not be comfortable in trusting the code to a third party server. To gain the much-needed flexibility and control on stuff like Github/BitBucket without hosting the git repositories on servers that lie external to the control of users, GitLab remains a Godsend!
GitLab is a wonder tool that offers a simple and user-friendly yet potent web-based interface to the Git repositories on your server, viz., GitHub. Users are free to host it on their own cloud server, control access in a custom-built manner, and the only factor limiting the repo size is the inbuilt storage space of the server.

via How to run your own Git server with GitlabHQ on Ubuntu 14.04 | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.

Just in case anyone has a hankering to run there own “GitHub” or build an open source software community for a particular space, like law or government.

Running GitBook Editor on Linux (and Windows and Mac)

Did you ever wanted to write and publish book? With GitBook you can create ebook using markdown syntax and with few clicks publish it in multiple formats such as PDF, EPUB, HTML or MOBI. GitBook also allows to split the workload among multiple contributors by using git distributed revision control. In this article we show how to run GitBook on Fedora and Ubuntu Linux.

via How to run GitBook Editor on Linux.

This is interesting. The meat of GitBook is at www.gitbook.io and the source is on GitHub at https://github.com/GitbookIO. Versions of the editor for Windows and Mac are available.