So, now you´ve come this far in The Tips it might be time to get yourself and your box registered ( see my sig and those of many others here on the forum. )
Registered Linux User #299965
The procedure is very simple and is free of charge.
The Linux Counter
According to their website there are about 18,000,000 ( eighteen million ! ) Linux users on this planet. Only 134,177 of them are registered. So let's push up those numbers ! ( I´m counting on you )
NOTE: You will have to login on their site at least once a year to keep your Registration valid
Here are some basic Linux commands. Some are
well known and some aren't. I am not a Linux
Wizard...far from it...but I am learning some
basic linux commands and thought I would
share some with other newbies so they to can
get more familiar with the terminal command
line. These work on my Mandrake 8.1 system.
xkill Kills a running program
exit Exits the terminal
reboot Reboots the system
halt Shutsdown the computer
startx Starts xwindows from terminal
man man(command)shows help files
info info(command) shows help files
--help (command)--help shows help files
su Allow you to login as Super User
ls "Lists" the contents of the directory
pwd Displays "present working directory"
cd cd (name) change directory TO:(name)
mkdir mkdir (name) Makes new directory
rmdir rmdir (name) Removes directory
clear Clears the terminal window
date Displays current date and time
cal Displays a calander
uptime Displays time since last reboot
df Displays the disk usage on partitions
du Displays disk usage of directory
id Displays your identification to system
groups Displays groups of current user
ulimit -a Displays users limits
uname Displays name of machine logged into
who Displays "who" is logged on the system
w Similar to "who"
wall Sends message to all logged in users
top Displays cpu processes memory etc
ps Displays current running processes
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RPM's Mandrake and RedHat
Check if installed already
rpm -q
To Install the rpm
rpm -ih
To Update a program using an rpm
rpm -Uvh
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Bored try this:
apropos file List tons of file commands
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Many of the commands listed above have
options that can be added to change the
output of that command. To see what they are
do a : man (command) and it will show you the
options.
The command line is hard to learn to use at
first ..... really hard for us converted MS$
users :) but it is worth the effort.
To start a program "like Opera" type the name
at the command prompt:
$ opera
There are many file commands that I didn't
list due to the complexity of them. Read up
on them and you can harness the power of your
computer from the command line!
I have to go read now :)
I just finished setting up a second monitor on my Linux
box at work. This was accomplished very simply. In fact
I was suprised at how easy it actually was!
Now for the Linux Guru's out there--I suppose this isn't big news at all for you. But for other NEWBIE's like myself, I think
it is a REALLY cool feature. It works very similar to the way that it works in Windows (if you ever tried that), with one major exception-----IT WORKS MUCH BETTER! :)
By much better, I mean it WORKS. In Windows it crashes my
system all the time, using two monitors with Linux it runs like a top. No crashs, no problems, and no headaches. The possibilities and benifits of using two monitors are immense! I can't wait to get back to work to play with them some more ! :) The program that made this so easy for me?
xinerama
Basically the requirements are:
2-Monitors
2-Video Cards--pci type worked fine for me.
1-A little patience
The patience would be needed only if your like me,"slightly"
impatient. Basically this is a simple and straightforward
process. Install the second video card and attach the second monitor.
In KDE go to the CONTROL CENTER>HARDWARE>DISPLAY
Set up the second Video Card then click "xinerama" and
follow the directions. This should be it....at least it was
for me. Now your desktop extends to the right to the second
screen.Open an application and you can move it to the second screen by dragging and dropping. Now you can view your email and browse the web at the same time ! This worked for me all day without causing any problems. Windows balks at several programs and caused my machine to crash and burn. This is just another reason I am trying/working hard to become Windows Free. As a web designer I see many benifits for the second screen, Windows just wouldn't keep running---so I wasn't able to make use of it....now I can!
This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves understanding system services and their dependencies, and having them start up in parallel, rather than sequentially, when possible.
This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. You can do it all from Knoppix's excellent graphical utilities, or from the command line.
Now here is something cool to do if you have some spare time.
You can run Linux using only your cd rom! .......... Cool..Awsome demonstration on the flexability and power of Linux!!!!!
Now you can sell that 1.5 gig hard drive for gas money...and still be able to connect to the internet :)
This works great for recovering data from a hard drive....also you can access the internet if your connected to it from a network.
Go to: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic
Download the: dynebolic-0.3.iso.gz
only 47mb xwindows based(blackbox)
I unzipped it......burned it to a cd as an image......popped it into my cdrom.....rebooted from the cdrom .... and presto Linux is up and running...........WITHOUT using the harddrive at all!! :)
Take the CD back out and reboot and your back into your normal system.... doesn't mess with the hard drive (unless you mount it to do data recovery etc.)
Now you can run Linux on your windows machines without even installing it! Great if you want to see a little of what Linux can do! This CD based distro auto-configured all the settings....I just had to tell it to use DCHP to connect through my lan..... here's an excerpt from the website:
features
* easy to use
* no need to install or to change any data on the harddisk
* yes, it will work even if you have Micro$oft Winblows(tm) installed
* automatic hardware recognition and configuration
* network cards
* sound cards
* BTTV video cards
* USB devices
* ready to use desktop including common netsurfing tools
* includes MuSE 0.6.2 to stream audio on the net
* includes FreeJ 0.2.1 and Hasciicam 0.9 for realtime video effects
* includes Mozilla 0.9.4 to surf on the net
* stable and reliable GNU/Linux environment
requirements
* i586 CPU (Pentium MMX / AMD K6) or better
* IDE CD-ROM reader
* 64Mb of RAM
* PS/2 mouse
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Worked great....burning 4 copies to give away to some of my friends!!
They won't believe that they can run their computer without a hard drive!
There are several other CD Rom-run versions of Linux that don't use the harddrive........ another is Linux Care... but this one really works great....I have tried 3 total.... and am looking at the Mandrake based one on sourceforge.....downloading as i'm typing :)
But it's over 600 mb so the verdicts still out on that one.
I'm using the DyneBolic linux cd now as I type....works great!
CAN WINDOWS DO THAT? :)
CAN YOU HACK A DRIVELESS BOX??---
Download the realplayer package here
Then run the following Code: rpm -ihv RealPlayer-*.rpm
Go to the source to learn Linux basics and build the right Linux for you. Linux From Scratch (LFS) and its descendants represent a new way to teach users how the Linux operating systems work. LFS is based on the assumption that compiling a complete operating system piece by piece not only teaches how the operating system works but also allows an independent operator to build systems for speed, footprint, or security.
Go to the source to learn Linux basics and build the right Linux for you. Linux From Scratch (LFS) and its descendants represent a new way to teach users how the Linux operating systems work. LFS is based on the assumption that compiling a complete operating system piece by piece not only teaches how the operating system works but also allows an independent operator to build systems for speed, footprint, or security.
Mounting Linux Partitions under FreeBSD 04/20/2009 0 Comment(s) To mount ext2fs filesystems under FreeBSD, you first have to build a new kernel with ext2fs support. Put the line
options “EXT2FS”
in your kernel configuration file for the new kernel and compile.
Read the FreeBSD handbook to learn how to do that.
or
Do the following steps to enable ext2fs support in the kernel:
# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ext2fs
# make
# make install
You can use ‘kldload‘ to load the ext2fs module in to the kernel.
# kldload ext2fs
Then you will be able to mount your linux partitions by giving a command like:
# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt
to unload module use
# kldunload ext2fs
To load the module automatically on system startup
add the following line in to /boot/loader.conf
ext2fs_load=”YES”
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