Linux Best Practices and Tips
Linux is powerful, flexible, and can be adapted to a broad range of uses. While best practices for administrating Linux servers are not hard to find due the popularity of the operating system, there is always a need for up-to-date Linux advice, along with the best tips, from our experienced Toptal Linux administrators.
How to Avoid Frustration After Forgetting To Use Sudo Command
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Have you ever typed a command in your terminal, only to find out you forgot to prefix it with the
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command? You have to retype the whole command again just to add the
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in front of it. Frustrating!
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Well, you can add this simple alias to your
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to help you reduce the frustration:
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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
For those of you who don’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 ”#” support Ubuntu/Fedora only
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