The Problem with Linux is that it is forthright, open and honest. Now I know how much the editors here hate when I anthropomorphize an operating system, but it is fundamentally true. Linux, in my …

There is a package called psmisc that provides a useful application fuser. The package provides the below (on fedora): […] /sbin/fuser /usr/bin/killall /usr/bin/peekfd /usr/bin/pstree …

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Not long ago I had the opportunity to show off GNU/Linux to a friend. She&#8217;s been a lifelong …

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I was looking for some nice client for Oracle and mysql. I did find mysql-administrator and navicat to be useful but this is much better. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/" …

$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gzip" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; …

There are more than one situation where you wished that there was a simple way to print a character n number of times. At least I face that quite often, especially when you want to print a menu. I …

A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro&#8217;s. <a …

I found a nice game and learning software for Kids yesterday. It is called <a href="http://gcompris.net/" target="_blank">GCompris. Details of the software as in their …

The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" …

For most common distributions of Linux the default settings for the newly created user with GUI or useradd command is taken from the directory /etc/skel All the files (including the hidden files) are …

Here is the command to test that all the directories in your path actually exist. […] (<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internal_field_separator" title="Internal field …