http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof – very good collection of utilities for .deb based distro’s

2010-10-08 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
Head over to http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof and you will find a nice utility created by the makeuseof guys. This will allow you to select the applications that you want to install and once you have made the selection you can download the unattended installer. Well, to be frank with you I really do not see the need for this unless you don’t know how to add repositories or install simple stuff. Most of this (no, actually all of this except dropbox in my Fedora setup with the repositories that I have set). Continue reading

Fedora Linux – Display information about users currently logged on – whowatch

2010-09-04 2 min read Fedora
Here is description of program/utility to display the currently logged in user in a Linux box (tried on Fedora 13 Goddard): Whowatch is an interactive console utility that displays informations about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. Besides standard information (login, tty, host, user’s process) you can see type of login (ie. ssh, telnet). You can also see selected user’s processes tree or all system processes tree. Continue reading

Remove some path from the PATH variable temporarily.

2010-09-04 2 min read bash Linux
How many times has it happened to you that you are working on some linux platform (like Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS etc) and suddenly you see that you need to remove some path from the PATH variable so that a script is executed from some other path. It really difficult to do this if the path is too long and if you end up doing this couple of times. If that is the case, then the below script is for you 🙂 Continue reading

Zabbix error\’d — just for fun

2010-08-28 1 min read Uncategorized
<img class="size-medium wp-image-2432" title="History-Zabbix Error'd" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/History-Zabbix-300x151.jpg" alt="History-Zabbix Error'd" width="300" height="151" /> I was woking on Zabbix some days back and here&#8217;s a screenshot that I took from Zabbix running on <a class="zem_slink" title="Red Hat" rel="homepage" href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat Enterprise <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux 5. Pretty interesting to see that there is a graph with all the values on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Cartesian coordinate system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system">Y-axis as 3.26GB and still there is a trend on the graph. Continue reading

How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

2010-07-23 1 min read Fedora Linux
For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus: Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers. And the features include: Ailurus can … display Linux skills install popular software change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information enable some third party repositories# clean apt/yum cache# backup and recover apt/yum status# the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only Continue reading

Beldi – The way to go to try linux distributions.

2010-07-18 1 min read Linux
I know people in the Linux world always want to try different distributions, but problem is maintaining them and tracking them, so what is the solution? Found a nice solution called <a href="https://belug.de/~beldi//distributions/fedora.xml">Beldi This sofware is in the fedora yum repository so if you are running Fedora you can simply install the application by running &#8221;<span style="color: #ff00ff;">yum install beldi&#8221; Now the interesting part, it supports to download and autoupdate the distributions of about 16 odd distributions. Continue reading

Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try – Fedora

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux
Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora is a popular <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distribution funded by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat, the most profitable Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5" title="Company" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company">corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at <a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com. Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into <a href="http://www. Continue reading
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