If you’re on the verge of installing Linux on the family computer, here are seven ways to ensure that you get a high wife approval factor.
Get Your Ducks in a Row
Imagine you’re evaluating a new technology for your office. If the vendor stops in the middle of his presentation to fix a “glitch,” it stands [...]
Don’t you hate it when your bittorrent download of an album finishes, and you realize that it’s one flac file and one cue file? Unless your goal is to recreate the CD, this format probably won’t be much good to you. You probably want a separate flac file for each song. Splitting the file is [...]
Great way to build a customized Linux LiveCD - the NimbleX Live CD Generator. Pick and choose your packages and it will put together an ISO based on Slackware. Stash it on a USB drive and have a carry it on Linux all to your own! Very nice web based UI too. Begin your authoring [...]
A common question on many Linux forums is something like “I’ve just installed [SomeOtherOS] and now I can’t boot into my OS. How can I get my choice back?” Without getting into all the sticky details, the short answer is that the GRUB boot record has been overwritten and you need to restore it.
GRUB (the [...]
Thou shalt not log in as root.
Use “sudo” or “su -” for administrative tasks.
Thou shalt use the package manager when possible.
Sometimes installing from source code can’t be avoided, but when you use your distro’s package manager to install software, you can also use it to update and remove it. This is one of the main [...]
No Linux administrator’s toolbox is complete without some knowledge of the Linux command line interface. In fact, many Linux servers don’t even have a GUI installed. In this article, we’ll look at the commands that a Linux server administrator will use to complete normal, day to day tasks such as adding and modifying users, process [...]