Chromium Browser Chromium is the original open source idea on which Google Chrome is based. Though you can easily download and install Google Chrome in Ubuntu, we still recommend you to choose Chromium instead. GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used to edit and manipulate images. … Read more →

You may at times need to know about the hardware information on your computer for many reasons, such as to find a correct driver or to check its hardware specification. In this article we list some of the method you can find the hardware specification in Linux. Check the /proc folder The /proc/ folder has … Read more →

ld.so is the dynamic library loader. Each binary using shared libraries used to have about 3K of start-up code to find and load the shared libraries. Now that code has been put in a special shared library, /lib/ld.so, where all binaries can look for it, so that it wastes less disk space, and can be … Read more →

Ubuntu and Debian are closely related. Ubuntu builds on the foundations of Debian’s architecture and infrastructure, but has a different community and release process. About Debian Debian is ‘the rock upon which Ubuntu is built’. Debian is a volunteer project that works on developing a GNU/Linux operating system. The Debian project began more than a … Read more →

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes note: ==== ctrl-a means type control key plus a Basic #To Start a screen with session name screen -S sessionname* #To get help screen ctrl-a ? #To Create new windows within screen ctrl-a + c #To deatach screen type screen -d … Read more →

The Linux kernel supports various filesystems. We’ll explain ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and JFS as those filesystems are most commonly used on Linux systems. ext2 ext2 is the tried and true Linux filesystem but doesn’t have metadata journaling, which means that routine ext2 filesystem checks at startup time can be quite time-consuming. There is now … Read more →

Just Enough to Get By (Reference : Prentice Hall Linux Desk Reference Second Edition) As the heading suggests, in this section I attempt to present a subset of the vi commands large enough to enable you to accomplish basic tasks, but small enough that a beginner can remember most of them. Opening and Closing You … Read more →

Depends what distro you are using Ubuntu, Debian,Mint : > /etc/network/interfaces redhat,Fedora,Centos :> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

Using google IP hceck you can do this from the shell curl –silent ‘http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip’ | sed ‘s/.*Client IP address: //;s/).*//;q’

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never … Read more →