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Important Linux Distros for Beginners in 2012

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:34:57 +0000

This is a guest post from Brianne. There is wide variety of Linux Distros in the market. Each one differs in size, design, support and layout, although the basic function is the same. Each distros offers several unique features apart from main features. There is a heavy competition among distributors to create and develop unique [...]

NetworkManager ‘device not managed’ Fix

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:43:21 +0000

Recently I ran into an issue where a new installation of Debian didn’t have NetworkManager set up correctly. Everytime I tried to use NetworkManager it had an issue with the devices not being managed. Luckily there was a man page for networkmanager.conf and its a quick fix. All you have to do is sudo vi [...]

Spring Cleaning

TheLinuxBlog.com — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:30:17 +0000

It’s that time of year, tree’s, plants and animals doing there thing. The time of the year where other wildlife and beings start cleaning up since the weather is nice. I guess it’s time for a post on some spring cleaning for the Linux folk We will start off with a classic, sure to give [...]

Auto mounting a partition

TheLinuxBlog.com — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:03:43 +0000

It’s been a while. A while since I’ve had to actually had to manually edit the /etc/fstab to automount a partition. So long, that I searched my blog trying to find out how to do it. To my surprise, I’d never actually written one. If I had, I couldn’t find it. Here’s to you, memory: [...]

OpenStack: A Story about Confidence

Owen — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:25:01 +0000

Today we have a guest article submitted by Jesse L. on OpenStack. Enjoy! Open source solutions, while certainly nothing new, have exploded into the consciousness of IT departments around the world over the past few years. Sensing an opportunity to move cloud computing forward, Rackspace introduced an open source cloud computing solution, OpenStack. The move [...]

The Linux Command Line – Review

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:32:26 +0000

was given an opportunity to review The Linux Command Line, a Complete Introduction, by William E. Shotts, JR from No Starch Press and decided to give it a go. Being somewhat of a command line geek, I’m always on the lookout for good material to learn new and interesting things, and perhaps recommend to others. [...]

Linux Blog Updates

TheLinuxBlog.com — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:07:52 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve done some feature improvements on TheLinuxBlog and quite frankly it’s about time for some updating and modernization. Here are some changes I’ve made and some features I’m planning on adding. Contributors Page I’ve Finally added a page for contributors in appreciation for the posts they’ve written. Included on this [...]

Mandatory New Years Post

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:37:21 +0000

Happy new year! I guess it’s time for a yearly update, I feel like everyone else has done it and now its my turn. Hit the jump for some more statistics that are probably only interesting to yours truly. Top 10 Posts Interestingly enough none of these were written this year. Perhaps I should write a [...]

Packages you should install from the get-go

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:45:58 +0000

When re-installing or performing a fresh installs of Linux, I’ve found that packages often disappear from default installations. These are the tools I install from the get-go. I’m sure there is more that I’m missing, next time I re-install I’ll update the list. Feel free to contribute your favorites to the list in the comments! vim Because I like the [...]

THREE POPULAR OPEN SOURCE VERSION CONTROL SYSTEMS

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:30:18 +0000

Below, I review CVS, Subversion, and GIT; three popular open source version control systems. Version control systems are an organizational necessity for any software development project. During the software development process, multiple developers are often working with varying versions of the same code. One version may have a particular bug, while another version may have [...]