Linux

Linux Command Line Tips

June 10, 2007

PixelBeat has nice compilation of some of the commonly used Linux terminal commands. The commands are also categorized and should help in finding the right command/command usage for the task at had. Link: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html Also note the comment in the above page: Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, [...]

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How To: Browse remote files in Eclipse IDE

June 6, 2007

Eclipse.org always amaze me with the kind of tooling that they go on adding to the Eclipse Platform. Few months back when I was browsing the different projects in Eclipse, I stumbled on Remote System Explorer (RSE) Remote System Explorer is part of Target Management which in turn in a subproject of Device Software Development [...]

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Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn

May 27, 2007

I was a die hard fan of Suse Linux and was hesitant to try other Linux distributions. Suse 10.1 worked flawlessly on my laptop and I was able to even get the Xgl working on my ATI Radeon X700 graphics card. Post on SuseSuse 10.1Xgl Working on SuseXGL on Suse – Photoset The other Linux [...]

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HowTo: Tail Files in Eclipse IDE

May 19, 2007

Unix ‘tail’ command is used to display the last few lines of a file. The ‘-f’ parameter makes the utility more useful in the sense that it allows you to ‘follow’ the output of the file. As and when additional lines are added to the file, they are displayed on the terminal. The follow parameter [...]

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Unix – Make Directory Tree in a Swipe

January 22, 2007

If I wanted to created a directory tree say /first/second/third this is how I used to do it, till now. $ cd /$ mkdir first$ cd first$ mkdir second$ cd second$ mkdir third$ cd third Today I learnt that you could do this in a single swipe using the -p option! mkdir -p first/second/third And [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts for Bash

January 4, 2007

The default shell on most Linux operating systems is Bash. And as with every other application (which I use extensively) the first thing I do is to search/use Keyboard shortcuts. First I checked the Bash Reference Manual, however there was no mention of any keyboard shortcut in that manual. A search in Google lead me [...]

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Linux vs Windows

December 15, 2006

Sorry if you are mislead by the title. Check this image. (Click for the enlarged image) Also this happens to be my new wallpaper on SuSE. I found this image in one of the Novell’s CoolSolution Article. I just couldn’t stop laughing for some time Notice that stare given by the Penguin Now for the [...]

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Xgl on Suse10.1

December 5, 2006

Xgl is an X server architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL drivers. The development of Xgl was sponsored by Novell to increase the usability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and was led by David Reveman Checkout this video to see Xgl in action : I recently installed Suse [...]

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Ethereal User Guide

November 17, 2006

Ethereal is one of the best open source packet sniffer available today. It is available on both Windows and Unix Platform. Detailed list of Ethereal features can be found here ! Richard Sharpe and Ed Warnicke have written an extensive user guide(450 pages) on Ethereal. The intent of the document was to improve the accessibility [...]

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100 Linux Tips and Tricks

November 12, 2006

Nope I am not going to write a post listing the 100 Linux Tips and Tricks. I am just going to attach a nice book that I found while searching through by E-book collection The book is pretty good for new Linux users and can help them to quickly get started on Linux ! I [...]

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