Windows vs Linux Windows uses FAT and NTFS as file systems, while Linux uses a variety of file systems. Unlike Windows, Linux is bootable from a network drive. In contrast to Windows, everything is either a file or a process in Linux. Please see one of my earlier post What “Everything Is a File” Means on Linux.…
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,…
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…
Hacking experts on Wednesday demonstrated ways to attack Android smartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google (GOOG.O) to boost protection. Experts showed off their prowess at the Black Hat hacking conference in Las Vegas, where some 6,500 corporate and government…
After a very nice discussion over Linux vs Windows between the group members, all the Linux & Windows supporter was trying to prove their OS better. One of the Windows supporter write a text string (can say a command) to execute in a Linux terminal, which can crash it in just one enter. WARNING!!!: DON’T…
The fuser utility in Linux is a powerful tool. As the name suggests it gives information about file user or the process that is currently using the file or directory. But fuser functionality is not just limited to giving information about the process. The article explains how to use fuser utility with 5 practical examples.…
A common problem with computers is when you have a number of large files (such as audio/video clips) that you may want to get rid of. You can find the biggest files in the current directory with: ( only in current directory ) ls -lSrh (the r causes the large files to be listed at…
One of the defining features of Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems is that “everything is a file.” This is an oversimplification, but understanding what it means will help you understand how Linux works. Many things on Linux appear in your file system, but they aren’t actually files. They’re special files that represent hardware devices,…
Unix and windows file formats are different. Sometime a Unix file which edit in Windows put a special character at the end of each line i.e ^M (CTRL+M). It can make that file useless sometime. But no worry you can fix that with ease, just follow the procedure given below: Open the file in vim…
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