Surveying a Linux System, Part 3 – Usage

This is the last in my Linux survey trifecta, examining current usage, plus a bit of troubleshooting. As with both the hardware and software posts, you may need to run some of these as root and your mileage may vary, since not all distros are alike. Show a list of recent logins # last Process [...]

Surveying a Linux System, Part 2 – Software

A few days back, I listed  some Linux commands for getting hardware information. Now onto software and operating system information. Again, you may need to run some of these as root and your mileage may vary, since not all distros are alike. List version of Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS # cat /etc/redhat-release List version of SuSE # cat [...]

Surveying a Linux System, Part 1 – Hardware

I am called to work on Linux systems only occasionally, which is unfortunate since it is a very versatile and useful OS that should warrant more of my time. In many instances the request has been to survey a Linux box, and as usual I’m searching Bing and Google for commands. Here’s the first of [...]

Fedora 16 Released

If you haven’t used Linux in a while, you should give it a second look. Fedora 16 was unleashed on the computing world yesterday. The latest versions of Fedora, and most modern Linux distributions, have come a long way since the painfully slow and complex installations. Hardware support, especially with the Fedora Project, has been [...]

Xmarks the spot (for bookmarks)

Formerly known as Foxmarks, Xmarks is a great tool that synchronizes your Favorites/Bookmarks (depending on the browser you use). Just install the small app on each of the computers you wish to keep synchronized and it does the rest. I really wish I would’ve found this earlier; years of copying and sorting on numerous computers [...]

Fedora 10 Released

ars technica has a great review on the newest release of the Fedora Project, version 10. I’m downloading it as I type, can’t wait to give it a try. Get it here. Share this:

DSL

No not the Internet service, it’s Damn Small Linux. Linux you can run from a thumb drive, even a zip drive and it easily runs from with Windows, no virtual machine needed. Give it a try and have fun; as always it’s Open Source and free. Share this:

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