Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora.

2011-10-30 1 min read Fedora
easyLife is a user friendly program that installs packages on Fedora as well as adjustments most users want. It makes new users’ experience easy and fun, providing the means to set the OS up quickly and painless.
This app does not really require any more introduction.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/

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10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring

2011-04-22 3 min read Learning Linux

10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring

by Ramesh Natarajan on March 29, 2011

Using sar you can monitor performance of various Linux subsystems (CPU, Memory, I/O..) in real time.

Using sar, you can also collect all performance data on an on-going basis, store them, and do historical analysis to identify bottlenecks.

Sar is part of the sysstat package.

This article explains how to install and configure sysstat package (which contains sar utility) and explains how to monitor the following Linux performance statistics using sar.

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Introducing /run – what is this directory doing in my root directory?

2011-04-13 1 min read Linux

boot process with EFI on Intel Macs
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http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/

There is a suggestion to add /run directory that will be mounted as tmpfs. This directory will be mounted early in the boot process and can be used in various scenario’s. I hope this will improve few things in the linux world.

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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). Now for one application why would I do that if that was available for Fedora. Any-ways pretty good for newbies, still.

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A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010

2010-07-14 0 min read Linux Uncategorized
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<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1" target="_blank">A five way linux comparison.

A very good comparison of the most common and famous distributions of <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dafbd5" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux. Very comprehensive and detailed. Love this guy.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5585048/spotify-streaming-music-player-comes-to-linux">Spotify Streaming Music Player Comes to Linux [Downloads] (lifehacker.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://sathyasays.com/2010/07/13/spotify-for-linux/">Spotify for Linux (sathyasays.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_c16.gif" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

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l-exp listrs – A new look at linux blogs and sites

2010-04-07 0 min read Uncategorized
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Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think

2010-03-26 1 min read Linux

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