Linux - Part 19

Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.9.1 released

posted on June 17, 2008 in BitTorrent, Open Source, Software with 1 Comment

Not been following Deluge for the past few months. I had to fall back to Windows since my damn Exchange server could not work with Linux. But anyway, talking about good timing. OpenSUSE 11 is set to be out in 2 days and my office decides to get me a new notebook. A lenovo R61, [...]

How to configure a static ip in Linux

posted on June 16, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 3 Comments

This is a newbie question I get quite often. Configuring your Linux machine to run on a static IP is easy. Tools like system-config-network and netconfig provide you simple GUIs to do this. For today, I’ll show you how to do this from the command line instead. Navigate to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ [root@baboo]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Every network [...]

Get your free ORACLE Unbreakable Linux DVD kit.

posted on June 6, 2008 in Linux, Software with 5 Comments

Oracle got into the Linux playing field with it’s Oracle Enterprise Linux which is based on Redhat’s Enterprise Linux. Oracle then put together the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program to provide full Linux support to their customers. Oracle Unbreakable Linux support is not limited to only Oracle products. Customers can switch any of their current [...]

How to send a process to the background

posted on June 3, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 3 Comments

Sending a process to the background in Linux is quite easy. All you need is bg, fg, &, and ctrl+Z ( ^Z ). For this example I will use a simple bash script test.sh I put together to print “Test” every 5 seconds. #!/bin/bash #This script will print “Test” every 5 seconds # while [ [...]

Received my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

posted on May 28, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 7 Comments

Received my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron cds in the mail today. Who doesn’t like to receive internatioanl packages with goodies? The best part is when I tell my non OSSÃ‚Â friends that the cds were shipped free of charge. You will be suprised to know that many people don’t believe that there are people [...]

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