MS-DOS vs. Linux / Unix

MS-DOS	Linux / Unix
attrib	chmod
backup	tar
dir	ls
cls	clear
copy	cp
del	rm
deltree	rm -R rmdir
edit	vi pico
format	fdformat mount umount
move / rename	mv
type	less <file>
cd	cd chdir
more < file	more file
md	mkdir
win	startx

Linux / Unix Commands

GParted Live partition editor updated

GParted Logo The GParted developers have released version 0.8.0-5 of GParted Live, a small bootable Linux distribution that contains the GParted utility. GParted, an acronym for Gnome PARTition EDitor, is a partition editor application that can be used to create, organise and delete disk partitions via a graphical user interface (GUI). Supported file systems include Btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT16 and FAT32, HFS and HFS+, NTFS and others.

Switching To Linux - Tale Of A Former Mac User Who Is Also A Musician

Switching to Linux is easy for most of us. You just have to download and burn a Linux distribution and boot your computer with it. If the Linux distribution you have chosen is a modern one, then you can finish installing it on your machine in 6 steps or less.

However, if you rely on your computer for a living, then you need to do some preparations prior to making the switch. Kim Cascone, an experienced and gifted musician and composer had been using an Apple PowerBook to compose music. When his PowerBook G4 exhibited signs of age, he did a quick fact check and found that he could save as much as $3000 (which includes the machine and the software costs) if he switched to Linux.
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Book - Configuring IPCop Firewalls

IPCop is a powerful, open source, Linux based firewall distribution for primarily Small Office Or Home (SOHO) networks, although it can be used in larger networks. It provides most of the features that you would expect a modern firewall to have, and what is most important is that it sets this all up for you in a highly automated and simplified way.

This book is an easy introduction to this popular application.
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Jolicloud Renames Itself 'Joli OS'

Jolicloud is an internet based operating system similar to Google Chrome OS. The company (by the same name) also markets a laptop (Netbook) called Jolibook which runs Jolicloud OS.

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5 Linux Tutorials For Beginners

Here are 5 useful Linux tutorials for beginners / resources which will help newbies get their feet wet in Linux.

1. Complete, concise history of Linux.
2. Learn BASH shell scripting in 10 Seconds.
3. Free technical books to learn Linux.
4. Package management for new Debian users - A concise guide.
5. Package management for Red Hat users (a bit aged)

Hope you like these 5 useful tutorials / resources on Linux.

Home Computer - Green, Palm Sized Computer For Rs 5000

elLoka Techsolutions Pvt Ltd a Hyderabad based product design and manufacturing company that delivers Ultra Low Cost Computer Platforms(ULCCP), has come up with a palm-sized computer that is very cheap and consumes very little power.

The computer is on display at the Rambagh SMS Convention center in Jaipur, Rajasthan where a three-day Commonwealth and information technology meet is on.

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1 Second Linux Boot - And It Is No Gimmick !

It is said a picture is worth a 1000 words. In this case, instead of a picture, the following video demonstrates Linux booting to a GUI in a mere 1 second.



And this is what the people who implemented this awesome feat have to say about this exercise (and I quote).
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Linux Ate My RAM - Help!

Help! Linux ate my Memory. Did it indeed?
I was curious where my memory had gone because, when I fired up a terminal and typed the command -

$ free -m

I got the following output.

total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           882        843         38          0         86        424
-/+ buffers/cache:        332        549
Swap:            0          0          0

From a total of 882 MB, 843 MB has been used leaving only a measly 38 MB free for my use. How is that possible ?

Well, I stumbled upon an interesting website which explains in detail just this conundrum.

The website is (and you might have guessed it right!) linuxatemyram.com. And after reading through the website, I figured out that the whole thing is just a play of words. What you consider free is indeed free, but Linux chooses to call it 'used' because this memory is both used for something and at same time available for applications. Since your and Linux's terminology differs, you think you are low on RAM when you're not.Get it ?

Configuring YUM server for LInux on Windows FTP server

Hi all,
          In this artical i am going to setup YUM ( Yellowdog Update Modified) server on a Windows based FTP server.Here we go;
First of all copy Full DVD  of your linux distribution on a windows ftp server.
In my case i have copied all the contented of Fedora core-11dvd on my windows ftp server (192.168.5.52\fedora11)
The exact link location is ftp://192.168.5.52/fedora11

Now on Linux system follow the following steps
1. Move all the repo file to a backup location in my case /backup/yum.repod

[root@satish.malanch.com tmp ]# mv /etc/yum.repod/*  /backup/yum.repod/

[root@satish.malanch.com tmp ]# cp /backup/yum.repod/fedora.repo  /etc/yum.repod/satishmalanch.repo

Now edit this file with vim edtior:
root@satish.malanch.com tmp ]# vim /etc/yum.repod/satishmalanch.repo

  Edit the file as shown in above figure.
Now run following command:

[root@satish.malanch.com tmp ]# yum clean all 

Now you have configured the yum repositry on a windows based ftp server on network.

You can now install the packages without any dependancy.

...........................  Satish Kr Malanch