Linux And Friends

OpenSUSE is one of my favourite Linux distribution. And the latest version of OpenSUSE namely 11.0 surpasses all the previous versions in style, essense and usability by a large margin. Novell has released OpenSUSE 11.0 in numerous formats targeted at multiple platforms. You can download OpenSUSE 11.0 as a DVD image, a LiveCD image for [...]

Python is one of the most loved computer programming languages. It is simple to learn, clutter free and very powerful. If you are a beginner in Python and wish to pick up your skills, you can do so with a wide variety of free Python books and resources available on the net. Once you have [...]

Baron Schwartz is the author of the updated and second edition of the book namely “High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More“. He talks in detail about the procedure he had to follow to complete his book on MySQL. He dwells in detail on various aspects of writing a book such as the collaboration [...]

Have you ever tried to write something in your text editor and felt distracted because of all the eye candy you have on your desktop ? Did you, at those times, even for a second, yearn for a distraction free environment on your machine – something like a clean and simple interface sans all the [...]

What do you get when you marry Google search with a Unix shell ? That is right, you get Goosh. Goosh is a website which pretends to be a Unix shell. It runs in a web browser and using console commands you can browse and use various Google products such as Google news, Google image [...]

Intel Atom processor is the name for a new family of low power processors designed specifically for mobile internet devices and a new class of simple and affordable internet centric computers to be launched soon. The Intel processor was based on an entirely new micro architecture designed specifically for small devices and low power while [...]

In Linux, almost all configuration parameters are stored in ordinary text files.  And there is a special location under which the configuration files are stored namely /etc.  The following table lists all major configuration files found in Linux and their purpose.

Suppose you download a package (deb, rpm, tar … what ever) from the net. How do you determine whether the package is genuine or not. Put differently, how do you ensure that the package has not been tampered ? There is a simple way to ensure that.  You use the utility md5sum.

This article explores the different open source web servers that are developed and used by the netizens.