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we have listed below 50 commonly used Linux / Unix commands that we think every geek should learn by heart. These commands are vital for your complete access to Shells and Consoles.  Print them out. Hang them near your monitor. Practice them. Only constant practice will let you retain the usage and utility of all these console commands. Enjoy the list. Continue

I am a long-term StumbleUpon user, which means that I don’t get much sleep. Now, after almost 4 years of stumbling, I have decided to get my life back. Well, at least some sleep!
What does this do? Read full article

linux-hardcore.com-Well, i’m not going to use the ususal distro-test format for this one, as I fancied a bit of a write up instead of the usual points from 1-5.

I have a spare partition so this time I wanted to go for smething i haven’t tried in a long while. I popped over to Distrowatch and saw that Mandriva was out.

Why test Mandriva?
Mandrake was one of the first Linux Distros I used and has always had my respect for it’s hardware recognition and robustness. Even though back then, rpm distros were notorious for giving you a taste of “dependency hell”, one of the reason why I previously went for Debian-based Ubuntu (Hoary to Dapper) and then later Debian itself.  Read  the full article

Sooner or later, you’re going to get the urge to switch distributions — maybe for a change of pace or maybe out of more practical considerations. Here’s a look at some of the most common reasons users feel compelled to make that jump. Continue…

OpenOffice 3.0 Final is all set to be officially released on Monday, October 13 but it has already been uploaded to many servers worldwide. As of this writing there is no .deb package available. If you can’t wait a couple of more days to get it installed in your Ubuntu box, here is a quick way to install it. Visit the linked page..

Linux has always been a good choice for a server OS. In practical terms, however, this functionality has been out of reach for the everyday computer user, mainly due to the technical know-how required to manage a dedicated server OS. On the other hand, our homes today are more filled with computers than ever before - and, in a multi-node network, a server can provide many benefits. In this article, I am going to try to guide you in setting up a useful server for your home network, one that is headless (i.e., without monitor, keyboard, or mouse) and can be stowed away neatly out of view. Read this article

If you are following me on twitter, you will have noticed that I have recently switched from Vista to Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 1525. I started off doing a dual boot with Vista but after playing around with Ubuntu for the past few days and customizing it to my liking, I am confident that I can format my Vista partition and switch to Ubuntu completely.  More…

This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often. Press to see the listing of all available command (on your PATH). On my small home system, it says there are 2595 executables on my PATH. Many of these “commands” can be accessed from your favourite GUI front-end (probably KDE or Gnome) by clicking on the right menu or button. They can all be run from the command line. Programs that require GUI have to be run from a terminal opened under a GUI. Read More »

It happens all the time doesn’t it? You need to unmount a CD or you want to pack away the external drive but when you try to umount it you get the dreaded “device is busy” message. Wouldn’t it be great if Linux actually told you what was keeping the drive busy? Read more…

Guvnor is the business rules management system in Drools 5. When you deploy it out of the box, you get an unsecured web application that stores data in Jackrabbit’s embedded Derby database. Read More »