If you’ve ever used SSH to connect to a server, you ‘ll know its limitations: if you want to open a new window, you’ll need to create a second SSH connection to the server. And if the connection breaks during the SSH tunnel, you’ve lost your progress. This is where Screen comes in.
Screen, which calls [...]

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bm is a program that can make life at the terminal a little easier when you often have to deal with a couple of directories at the same time. It can be used to keep bookmarks of directories you use regularly, but are a drag to type and switch between.
Of course, there are the popd, [...]

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Does anyone really know what will be better in Windows 7? I don’t and I follow Windows almost as closely as I do Linux. With Linux, on the other hand, we know exactly what we’re getting well in advance of its arrival. In this latest Linux kernel, I see several outstanding new features that have [...]

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To find the 10 largest (filesize-wise) folders in your current working path type:
du -cks * | sort -rn | head -10
or
du -x –block-size=1024K | sort -nr | head -10
and remember if you just want to know how much free space is available don’t forget the classic old df -h command:
root@server [~]# df -h
Filesystem [...]

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Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged [...]

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Linux kernel 2.6.27 officially released. Some highlights: improved webcam support, a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for “pure” flash-based storage devices and more…

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Open source attack code framework gets even more automated to make exploits point and click. Testers, start your browsers.

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eCryptfs is a kernel-native cryptographic filesystem. It’s also a stacked filesystem, eCryptfs must work on top of another filesystem such as Ext3. This means that you don’t need to allocate space for eCryptfs, it will grow and shrink as you add files to it.
eCryptfs will be used in Ubuntu 8.10 to provide an encrypted private [...]

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Linux creator Linus Torvalds gave an interview in which he talked about what he likes and doesn’t like in a Linux distribution…

I’ve used different distributions over the years. Right now I happen to use Fedora 9 on most of the computers I have, which really boils down to the fact that Fedora had fairly good [...]

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I was experiencing some screen tearing on video with Flash Player 9, and thought perhaps giving Flash Player 10 a try would help. It didn’t help much, but here’s how you can install Flash Player 10 yourself using nspluginwrapper on 64-bit Ubuntu. I did this on Hardy Heron, but similar steps will probably apply to [...]

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Why aren’t the existing Linux viruses[1] anything more than a topic for conversation? Why don’t they affect you in your daily computing in the way that MS viruses affect Windows users?
There are several reasons for the non-issue of the Linux virus. Most of those reasons a Linux user would already be familiar with, but there [...]

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Here’s a decent writeup on how to tweak your bash scripts to be more reliable. It goes step by step and is easy to understand even for a novice. Cheers!
Many people hack together shell scripts quickly to do simple tasks, but these soon take on a life of their own. [...]

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Web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

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Getting new software installed on Linux doesn’t have to be hard, but it can differ depending on what you’re installing.

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