Linux And Friends

XML also known as eXtended Markup Language is a language created to structure, transport and store data or information. But that is the most simple explanation. In reality, there is much more to the semantics of XML. When you embark on the path to mastery of XML, you invariably come across terms like XLink, Namespace, [...]

This is release 1.0-rc2 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What’s new in this release – Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze. Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will be available from the [...]

Wind River is joining Intel to develop an open source Linux platform to your car and shake up the auto industry by bringing greater innovation, efficiency and development speed to the emerging in-car infotainment market.

I was wondering if there is a way to print out files with line number printed as well.  In Linux there is a very easy way – in fact several ways of accomplishing this.  Here are a couple of them which easily lets you print line numbers alongside each line in your file.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni of Google, while he was a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dominc Mazzoni is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world.

Who said Linux users didn’t have a sense of humor ? To have a good laugh, read on … Here is another one – an oldie but a goldie… $ unzip strip touch finger mount fsck more yes umount sleep exit 0

In Linux you can share directories among several users. For instance, several people are working on a project and they need to create documents and programs so that others in the group can edit and execute these documents as needed. The project resides in the ‘/home/share‘ directory. This is how you achieve it.

In order to archive files and directories into a single file, you use the ‘tar’ command in Linux. Here are a couple of uses of the tar command :

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language which can be learned in a few days time. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools and comes with extensive standard libraries. The Python compiler and libraries are installed by default in most Linux distributions. So an aspiring Python programmer need not install anything [...]