The Ultimate Guide to Getting Support on Linux-use empathy to login to IRC….

2011-04-18 4 min read Learning Linux
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Support on Linux Installing Linux has become effortless to the extent that anyone with a little knowledge of computers can get a Linux machine up and running instantly. However, many of them throw in the towel when faced with even the slightest of glitches. The main reason for this is the belief that Linux doesn’t offer any kind of support. Other problem users face is that the regular technician who repairs their computer refuses even to touch a machine that’s running Linux. Continue reading

IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only

2010-06-15 2 min read Linux
The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" title="Server (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29">server and join #firefox. Though IRC is quite native to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux, I did not know where to start. So, I noted down the list of steps that need to be done to get you started. Continue reading