Learn Linux Commands The Easy Way

There are hundreds of command line tools in Linux. For a person who has just started using Linux, learning the various commands could at times, be a chore. But not any more, if you see what this website has achieved.

Playterm is a site which hosts videos of commands / tasks executed in the Linux terminal.

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Linux Kernel Gets Hosted At Github

Linus Torvalds has moved the entire Linux kernel to Github. This comes in the wake of Kernel.org site (The original home of Linux kernel) getting hacked.
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A Cheat Sheet That Teaches Linux Commands To Beginners

I like cheat sheets. They give a birds eye view of the whole picture. Cheat sheets are also massive time savers in that, you don't have to pour over reams of content to find what you want.
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World's First Solar Powered Desktop PC

How would you like to own a Desktop PC that runs on solar power ? A solar PC that can work upto 3 - 4 days without sunlight ? A PC that helps you reduce your carbon footprint thus helping you contribute your mite in saving the environment ? And - drum-roll please - one that comes pre-loaded with Linux ?
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Microsoft Reaches Out To Linux - Says Happy Birthday!

Microsoft and Linux have been long term adversaries. While the comparison may not be logical - since one is a corporation and another an operating system, it has not stopped people in either camps to lock horns with each other.

However, on the eve of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday, Microsoft is reaching out to Linux via a video that says - "Happy Birthday Linux!".

Watch the video below.
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Linus Torvalds Releases Linux 3.0

Linux kernel version 3.0 has been released. This version according to Linus Torvalds does not usher in any new features or incompatibilities related to version change.

He goes on to say, it is simply a way to drop the inconvenient numbering system in honor of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday.

[Source : gmane.linux.kernel]

The Xen Of Linux

Xen hypervisor has been around for some time now and supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems.
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A PC Emulator in Javascript - Run Linux In Your Web Browser

Fabrice Bellard has developed a PC emulator (Virtual machine) using Javascript that runs a version of Linux in your web browser.

You can run a variety of Linux commands in the emulator. Since its initial release on May 16 2011, this project has seen some feature additions namely - a clipboard to exchange data between the VM and the host, and support for Opera and Internet Explorer apart from Firefox.

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Linux Foundation Is Celebrating 20 Years Of Linux - Are you ?

Linux is turning 20. And to commemorate this happy occasion, the Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of Linux with a slew of special events which includes Gala dinner, Video contest,a T-Shirt contest, Linux Scholarships et al.

The Linux Foundation has also released this nice infographic which depicts the major milestones of Linux development.
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Two Classic Games Developed Using Sed

Sed is a command line tool used for pattern recognition and substitution in one or more text files. Sed is also called a stream editor. It is a very powerful tool which when mastered can help you in near-magic modifications to your files - all with just a few tap of your fingers.

One of the frequent uses of Sed is in text substitution. For example, if you want to change all the occurrences of the word "train" with the word "car" in your file "myfile.txt", you can do it easily using sed as follows.
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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 ?

CDE - An Innovative Way Of Running Programs On Diverse Linux Machines

CDE (not to be mistaken for the Common Desktop Environment in UNIX) is a packaging tool which allows you to identically replicate the execution of a program running on one Linux machine, on to another.

It does this by packaging up the Code, Data, and Environment (including all the dependencies - libraries, auxiliary programs etc) together, which can then be transferred and executed flawlessly on a different Linux machine.
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Qubes - A Highly Secure OS Powered By Xen Hypervisor

Qubes is an open source operating system based on Linux, which is designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Its unique selling point is that all applications that are run on Qubes is sand-boxed from each other.

This is achieved by way of virtualization of all applications using Xen Hypervisor.
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Avant Window Navigator for Ubuntu Linux

Avant Window Navigator (AWN) is a Mac OS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop. In addition to launchers that can be dragged onto the bar, it features a taskbar that behaves similarly to the Mac OS X dock. The window navigator uses the composite extension for transparency and other effects.

The latest version of Avant Window Navigator - as of this writing - is version 0.4.

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