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20 Funny Commands of Linux or Linux is Fun in Terminal

Avishek — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:16 +0000

Linux is fun! Huhhh. OK so you don’t believe me. Mind me at the end of this article you will have to believe that Linux is actually a fun box. 1. Command: sl (Steam Locomotive) You might be aware of command ‘ls‘ the list command and use it frequently to view the contents of a [...]

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Linux is an Art – Driving Force Behind Linux

Avishek — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:37:03 +0000

We comes across Linux (Foss) in our day-to-day life. In fact we are surrounded by Foss technologies. The first thing that might come to the mind of ours is that why is Linux appraised so much even in Windows and Mac user Community. What we answer to these question is Linux is free (in use), [...]

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Switching From Windows to Nix or a Newbie to Linux – 20 Useful Commands for Linux Newbies

Avishek — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:04:12 +0000

So you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux, or have just switched to Linux? Oops!!! what I am asking! For what else reason would you have been here. From my past experience when I was new to Nux, commands and terminal really scared me, I was worried about the commands, as to what [...]

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Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 Code Name “Wheezy” Server Installation Guide

Narad Shrestha — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:19:16 +0000

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock. Debian Linux is one of the most popular and freely available Operating System developed by Debian Developers around the world. They are involved with various activities viz. maintaining software repositories, graphic design, legal analysis,...

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Ubuntu 13.04 “Raring Ringtail” Server Installation Guide

Ravi Saive — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:22:23 +0000

Ubuntu 13.04 non LTS “Raring Ringtail” Server was released on 25 April 2013. This guide shows installation of recently released Ubuntu 13.04 Server with screenshots. This release includes latest and greatest packages, some of them are OpenStack Grizzly Pythan Juju 0.7 Ceph 0.56.4 MAAS...

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Install and Access Facebook Messenger on Linux Desktop

Ravi Saive — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:48:51 +0000

linuxmessenger app is a “Facebook-like” client for Linux desktop was written in Python language. It allows you to login to your Facebook account right from the command line without installing it on your system and have chat with your loved ones with much a like a Facebook interface. If...

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Install Innotop to Monitor MySQL Server Performance

Ravi Saive — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:44:32 +0000

Innotop is an excellent command line program, similar to ‘top command‘ to monitor local and remote MySQL servers running under InnoDB engine. Innotop comes with many features and different types of modes/options, which helps to monitor different aspects of MySQL performance and also...

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Ncdu a NCurses Based Disk Usage Analyzer and Tracker

Ravi Saive — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:22:53 +0000

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command line version of the most popular “du command“. It is based on ncurses and provides a fastest way to analyse and track what files and directories are using your disk space in Linux. It provides an excellent ncurses based interface to display the...

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Pydf an Alternative “df” Command to Check Disk Usage in Different Colours

Ravi Saive — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:19:29 +0000

The “pydf” (Python Disk File System) is an advanced command line tool and a good alternative to Linux “df comand”. It is used to display the amount of used and available disk space on a Linux file systems, same like df command, but in different colours. The output of the...

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15 Command Line Tools to Monitor Linux Performance

Ravi Saive — Sat, 04 May 2013 08:45:23 +0000

It’s really very tough job for every System or Network administrator to monitor and debug Linux System Performance problems every day. After being a Linux Administrator for 5 years in IT industry, I came to know that how hard is to monitor and keep systems up and running. For this reason,...

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