CPU usage up to 100% on Ubuntu 8.04[solved]

admin on August 5th, 2008 | File Under Ubuntu -

After a routine update yesterday,I felt my laptop became to be very heat,then I checked the CPU usage and saw  the CPU usage was up to 100%. I ever got same problem before but if I rebooted the computer all will turn to be ok ,however this method didn’t work this time.Then I checked the processes and found the Tracker ’s process ate over 50% CPU usage,this is the reason.I had to shut off the tracker from Sessions,after that,the CPU works fine again.

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Make an Ubuntu live USB

admin on July 29th, 2008 | File Under Linux Software, System Tool, Ubuntu -

You know,Fedora project has a tool names Fedora liveusb-creator for easily installing Fedora live operating systems on to USB flash drives.I found a tool names Ubuntu LiveUSB which also for creating a bootable Live USB stick from the running Ubuntu Live CD. Read More »

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40+ repositories for openSUSE 11

admin on July 17th, 2008 | File Under Suse -

zypper ar ftp://ftp.novell.co.jp/pub/opensuse/update/11.0/ My_Update_Janpan
zypper ar ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/update/11.0/ My_Update_Australia

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Howto:Set Swiftfox as default browser on Kubuntu

admin on July 13th, 2008 | File Under Linux General Tips, Linux Tips, Ubuntu -

Kubuntu users probably found  that even you have set up Swiftfox as  default browser on Kubuntu but it won’t work.You may try below solution which works for me: Read More »

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Install and enable mod_auth_mysql in Ubuntu

admin on July 12th, 2008 | File Under Linux General Tips, Linux Tips, Ubuntu -

1. Install mod_auth_mysql:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

2.Enable mode_auth_mysql

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
sudo ln -s ../mods-available/auth_mysql.load

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Video tutorial for installing and activing SELinux on Debian

admin on July 7th, 2008 | File Under Debian, Linux Server Tips -

This is a good video that guides to install and active SELinux in few minutes.”I made this video to show how easy is install and activate Security Enhanced Linux on Debian.”the poster  said. Read More »

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Howto install/remove Gnome,KDE,Xfce in Ubuntu

admin on July 1st, 2008 | File Under Linux General Tips, Linux Tips, Ubuntu -

tipsSometimes we want to have 2 or more desktops ,sometimes we want to remove 1 or more desktops,right?I have just removed kde4 from Ubuntu.By the way,I summarized some tips for installing/removing desktops in Ubuntu as follow:~ Read More »

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Speed up ubuntu boot speed

admin on June 27th, 2008 | File Under Linux General Tips, Linux OS, Ubuntu -

tipsAfter I upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.04 from 7.10 ,I found  the booting speed became to be slow,especially after I deleted KDE (i installed KDE once). I have speeded up the boot speed ,I share my experience as follow: Read More »

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Easy way to install Ubuntu 8.04 from hard disk

admin on June 26th, 2008 | File Under Linux General Tips, Linux Tips, Ubuntu -

tipsThis method is contributed by freeflyfish , I have tested it. It is really very easy way to install Ubuntu 8.04 from hard disk. Read More »

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Distribution Release: CentOS 5.2

admin on June 25th, 2008 | File Under CentOS, Linux news, Recommended -

Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 5.2, a desktop a server distribution built by recompiling the source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2: “We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 5.2 is based….

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