UNIX File maintenance tools, tips and how tos collection

IBM developerworks has published excellent set of tips and howtos.
From the article:
Systems administrators can use a number of programs to maintain files in a UNIX system from the command line. In this tutorial, you’ll experiment with commands, such as cd, cp, and tar, to navigate a UNIX file system from the command line and [...]

Download of the day: cupid Linux tool to determines the exact model of CPU

cpuid dumps detailed information about the CPU(s) gathered from the CPUID instruction, and also determines the exact model of CPU(s). It supports Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs, as well as older Transmeta, Cyrix, UMC, NexGen, and Rise CPUs.
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Howto: Linux Refresh all or an X screen Kde-Gnome desktop

Linux or UNIX desktop systems are quite stable. However, some time weird things happen like unreadable screen and confusing application causing massive screen messed up, which makes it difficult to read what is on the Linux desktop.
Generally, I have observed that most users prefer to hit CTRL+ALT+Back Space or just kills the X session. However, [...]

Howto switch from Linux to Windows - a users experience

I’ve read articles like “Switching for Windows to Linux in five easy steps” or “How changing your operating system can make fun with Linux” or “Why you should give Linux a chance” for five years now but there are always people who say Linux is difficult to learn and Windows has much easier install routines [...]

Howto: Ubuntu Linux convert DHCP network configuration to static IP configuration

My friend wanted to know how to change or convert DHCP network configuration to static configuration. After initial installation, he wanted to change network settings. Further, his system is w/o GUI system aka X Windows. Here is quick way to accomplish the same:
Your main network configuration file is /etc/network/interfaces
Desired new sample settings:
=> Host IP address [...]

Howto: Linux configure the Mouse at a text based terminal for copy and paste operation

When you come from GUI to text-based terminal, you might miss the cut and past mouse functionality.
You can use your mouse to copy and paste at a terminal. Install gpm which is a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles.
What is gpm?
‘gpm‘ provides mouse support to text-based Linux applications like [...]

Howto: Linux understanding and tuning Virtual Memory

I was trying to tune shared memory for Linux. However, tuning the virtual memory manager is dependent on expected Linux server/system workloads.
Wikipedia defines VM as, “Virtual memory or virtual memory addressing is a memory management technique, used by multitasking computer operating systems wherein non-contiguous memory is presented to a software (aka process) as contiguous [...]

Frank’s Corner - a guide to running Windows stuff on Linux

Frank has an extremely good website, dedicated to running Windows stuff (for my interest, that’s GAMES)  on Linux.
He’s got detailed howtos that are too numerous to list here, so go there!
geek out.

Frank’s Corner - a guide to running Windows stuff on Linux
Originally from ArsGeek by arsgeek

Linux: Howto install truetype (freetype) and Msttcorefonts fonts

Apple Computers originally developed a Truetype font in 1980. Later in 1991 Microsoft introduced the same to Windows operating system. These fonts enhance your web browsing experience and some software such as Macromedia Flash player only works best with Truetype / FreeType fonts under Linux desktop.
Linux use fonts from the FreeType project of David [...]

Linux: How to change the text size or character size in runlevel 3 (text mode)

If you have large size (21?) or small size (14?) monitor, it is better to use large/small character size. But how do you setup character size in runlevel 3 under Linux?
The answer is simple, use the kernel framebuffer. It allows you to set the Linux text scree (console) to higher or lower resolution. The Linux [...]

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