LibreOffice 4 is launched and I was very exited to install it on my CentOS 6. It was really a good experience to install and use it. I am very happy to see that its performance is enhanced a lot. Documents are opening very fast than the earlier versions. I would like to share its…
I wondered when I had to find the USB device name in Linux using shell script (shell command), it was little tricky, specially in case of UDEV. You can use different methods to get this like using udevinfo command, from sysfs, from /var/log/messages. Using udevinfo: for DEV in /dev/sd*; do udevinfo -q env -n $DEV…
A backdrop of stars Difficulty: Easy Application: KStars You may already have played with KStars, but how about creating a KStars backdrop image that’s updated every time you start up? KStars can be run with the –dump switch, which dumps out an image from your startup settings, but doesn’t load the GUI at all. You…
There is a new Linux distribution released almost every week, sometimes, even every day. The latest is one called Stella, and the first version is Stella 6.3. Stella is a desktop-focused remix of CentOS, and Stella 6.3 is based on CentOS 6.3. If you are familiar with CentOS, you know that out of the box,…
Gaming on Linux? A few years ago this would only be said as a joke. Thankfully for us, Linux gaming has evolved offering some mature open source games, as well as some very nice commercial games. Let’s try and find out what are the best 10 games a Linux gamer must play this year… Oil…
Sometime when you run an application in Linux, it starts and suddenly stops or just doesn’t work. Then you find that its selinux which is stopping you to run your application. Selinux is good security feature of Linux stop you to execute malicious applications. But it need to disable when you need to run your…
We’ve seen this Ubuntu installer for Windows before, but now it has new features and a new name: Wubi Beta. It uses no confusing lingo, and even lets you choose a variety of options that similar applications don’t offer: Choose the drive to install Ubuntu (should have at least 10GB available) Choose how much room…
Openssl is one of the best tools which can be used to encrypt/decrypt files. You can password protect your important data to avoid misuse. To encrypt your files use the command: openssl des3 -salt -in $FILENAME -out ${FILENAME}.des3 To decrypt the file use the command: openssl des3 -d -salt -in ${FILENAME}.des3 -out ${FILENAME} You can…
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This is actually, I want to share, how I learned the shell scripting. It may be helpful for beginners. I am writing it step by step so that it will easy to understand: STEP 1: Do your task manually & prepare the steps. If you know the basic Linux commands, it will help you to…
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