267 articles tagged "Linux"

10 Productive Tips For Linux Systems Administrator

Bunch of sysadmin tips, well worth a read. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems.
Contest: Win Ubuntu Kung Fu Book

I would like to run a little competition here at nixCraft. I’m offering total 3 copies of ‘Ubuntu Kung Fu - Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks‘ book PDF version written by Keir Thomas. All you have to do is comment on this post and tell us your one killer Linux / UNIX tip.

Ubuntu Kung Fu book is for both new and expert alike users. You will learn lots of short cuts and hacks. Now, you can win this book for yourself.

How To Enter

Your task is to write a small one liner tip related to Linux / UNIX. Submit your tip below in the comments. If you do not have a tip to share with us, then just tell us why you switched to Linux.

The prize

The prize is total 3 copies of Ubuntu Kung Fu book PDF version. I will pick three random entry from those comments submitted to win the prize. The competition is open to all and I will send your PDF version book via email.

Entries close on Wednesday, Dec., 03, 2008 at midnight. I will announce the winner next day.
Ubuntu Linux Time Saving Tips

Excellent collection of short tips except for recommending root login! From the article:

The end of October saw the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 8.10 - affectionately called the Intrepid Ibex.

It’s a release that sees Ubuntu going from strength to strength.

And with its popularity reaching stratospheric proportions, we thought that now was the perfect time to pool together our favourite tips into one place.

If you’ve never tried Ubuntu, there’s never been a better time to dive in. If you’re already a convert, read on to discover how to get the best from your installation.
Linux Server with Embedded Display
Looks nice but this hack is not for the faint hearted!

Old Gateway PC transformed into a Linux server with embedded display, which is a hacked portable B&W TV driven directly by the VGA card.
GNU/GCC Compiler Techniques Used in Linux Kernel

Excellent article - you can find information about GCC extensions for the C language. The Linux kernel uses several special capabilities of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) suite. These capabilities range from giving you shortcuts and simplifications to providing the compiler with hints for optimization.

This article provides a glimpse of the techniques made available by GCC in the Linux kernel. You can read more about all the available extensions for both C and C++ in the GNU GCC manual.
Web Site Home Page Uptime Comparison: Linux Distro vs Apple vs Windows

Pingdom a Web site monitoring service has published an interesting post on its blog. They have monitored uptime and load time of the homepages for 16 Linux distributions for a month. Further they have compared uptime with corporate OS giants like Microsoft and Apple. They have found that even with limited resources many of Linux distro website perform well than Microsoft and Apple in terms of uptime and load time.
Download 64 Bit Linux Flash Player Beta Version

Finally, Adobe has released 64 bit preview version of its most popular flash player today for Linux / Solaris UNIX operating system. There is no Windows or Mac 64 bit version exists but Linux / UNIX is the first OS to get it. Indeed a good news; now we have both Java and Flash plyaer for 64 bit platforms. No need to use nspluginwrapper.
Ubuntu Linux: Watch and Play BBC / YouTube Videos With Totem Movie Player

The Totem Movie Player application is a movie player for the GNOME desktop (default on Ubuntu Linux) based on GStreamer framework and xine library, and enables you to play movies or songs. Various format such as MPEG audio and video (MP3/MPV), Ogg, AVI, ASF, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, and more are supported. Playing of DVD and VCD media is also possible. You can watch Youtube video or listen BBC streams (podcasts) with this player without installing anything else such as Adobe Flash player.
Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS

Interesting read and claim has been independently verified by somebody from Microsoft.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a longtime developer of the Linux kernel, known for his work maintaining USB drivers as well as for packaging the SUSE kernel at Novell. O’Reilly Media recently interviewed Greg about his claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has, as well as why binary-only drivers are illegal, and how the kernel development process works.

Read full interview: How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ever
Google Releases Android Mobile Platform As Open Source Project

Android is now open source software. Google open the entire source code including network and telephony stacks that were not available previously under a Apache license.