Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora.

2011-10-30 1 min read Fedora
easyLife is a user friendly program that installs packages on Fedora as well as adjustments most users want. It makes new users’ experience easy and fun, providing the means to set the OS up quickly and painless. This app does not really require any more introduction. http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/ [][1]Easy Linux for Fedora Related articles How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials (amit-agarwal.co.in) Fedora 16: Linux home for lost Ubuntu GNOMEs (go. Continue reading

Get yourself some conkyrc files.

2011-10-05 2 min read Fedora Linux
If you are looking for some nice conkyrc files, then you can head over to : Ubuntu Forums In this thread you can see some very nice conkyrc files with screenshots. You can browse through the thread and get the one that you like. But if you are like me and would like to download all of them to see the features and commands in each of them then you would need to copy each of these files and paste them separately. Continue reading

Creating a chroot environment in Fedora with bash and other utils.

2011-09-19 2 min read bash Fedora Learning Linux
[ad#ad-2] I am testing some of my scripts to work on a very old system and there the versions of the most popular applications are very old, real old :(. So, some of things that I am very used to since last couple of years, do not seem to work as expected and I need to keep verifying a lot of things on the server, very inconvinient to keep testing the script on the server (need to connect on VPN) just to test some very simple things. Continue reading

10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring

2011-04-22 3 min read Learning Linux
10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring by Ramesh Natarajan on March 29, 2011 Using sar you can monitor performance of various Linux subsystems (CPU, Memory, I/O..) in real time. Using sar, you can also collect all performance data on an on-going basis, store them, and do historical analysis to identify bottlenecks. Sar is part of the sysstat package. This article explains how to install and configure sysstat package (which contains sar utility) and explains how to monitor the following Linux performance statistics using sar. Continue reading

Results of Fedora 16 Release Name Voting

2011-04-20 1 min read Fedora
Fedora 16 is codenamed Verne. Here are other details: The voting has concluded for the Fedora 16 release name, and the results are in! Thank you to the Fedora community members who made name suggestions and participated in the voting. The Fedora 16 release name is: Verne Voting period: Tuesday 2011-04-05 00:00:00 to Monday 2011-04-11 23:59:59 Number of valid ballots cast: 421 Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum Continue reading

Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832

2011-04-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
Slackware released the next version a few days back and guess the complete name : Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832. You must be crazy to tell the complete version to anyone. Development Release: Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832 More fun with Slackware’s version numbers as Patrick Volkerding announces the latest release candidate for the upcoming Slackware Linux 13.37: +ACI-There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release candidate: Slackware 13. Continue reading

Execute a command with a timeout

2010-12-29 1 min read bash Learning
<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu_logo.svg">Wikipedia</a> </dd> </dl> Execute a command with a timeout 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;timelimit -t100 somecommand </div> </td> </tr> I found this in Ubuntu repos, and consider it better than timeout. * View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites * View all commands by CodSpirit commandlinefu.com by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com) URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/h72xZsssE4o/execute-a-command-with-a-timeout
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