If your new to Linux you would of most probably heard of the word ‘Repositories’ and wondered what exactly are ‘Repositories’. Taken from the singular word of ‘Repository’ meaning a place where things may be put for safekeeping. Repositories is the archive storage of software. Linux and the Open Source community uses repositories to allow [...]
From a fresh install Fedora 14 is not able to play copy-protected DVDs, even original DVDs that you own. I can’t understand why Red Hat does not have this packaged by default since the Hollywood Studios are not against Open Source. They are just against illegal piracy. Well here are the steps to install/enable DVD [...]
If you are new to Linux/Unix and have been around the forums, websites and maybe the irc channels. You might of wondered how do these guys know all of these commands, when there are so many commands available. Well I’m here to tell you a secret noone remembers all the commands in linux. What sets [...]
The ‘watch’ command is one of those commands that are very useful but not very well known. What it does is continually executes a given command at regular intervals, simulating a real-time style command. This is very useful when you want to monitor using other well known commands which don’t update dynamically on its own. [...]
Time and time again. I have been asked how to use a particular command or how can they confirm what options they need to do a particular task in Linux/Unix. The simple answer is the ‘man‘ command. This command is short for manual and can give you pages of information of commands you want to [...]
