File Access Control List (ACL) desktop application

File Access Control List (ACL) permissions have been around for linux for quite some time, but it's one of those very useful features that for unknown reasons nobody talks about. They are an extension to the traditional and very limited unix User-Grou...

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Linux File System Structure Questions

Can any one answer me upon the following questions:1)   Can a file be on more than one block group?2)   Does every block group have unique Inode table?3)   Where the file names are stored, if not in the inode?4)   Other than data block what all e2compr cha...

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Jacascript based Terminal Emulator

Want to try out some *NIX commands? But dont want to install  *NIX ? Or cab’t install *NIX ? Then This site’s for you: CB.VU CB.VU is a Unix-like virtual shell command line interface. See “info” for the full credentials. Try it out! It rocks! PS: do type weather, matrix and whereiam You’ll like it! Share This

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fstab edit GUI

Fwfstab is a very nice OS application to edit /etc/fstab file that I hope it get's integrated in gnome. If you are using fedora, you can just type in the command line:Code:$ sudo yum install fwfstabOnce installed you can find it in th...

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Tree View to be back in Konqueror in KDE 4.1

Some good news for Konqueror fans like me! Peter Penz reports that Tree View will be back in action in Konqueror for KDE 4.1! According to Peter, a complete rewrite of QT4’s Interview(a model-view-controller framework for tree structures )  was the reason for Tree View to be MIA. Although they had intended to bring it [...]

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Getting your Fedora 8 Multimedia Ready

Unlike openSUSE 10.3, Fedora doesnt have the 1-click installers for easy install of codecs ,so you’ll have to rely on Terminal and Yum to get it up and running. All the below operations require Root privileges, so switch to root first by opening the Terminal and typing All commands under “code” will have to be entered [...]

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HELP NO ACPI

DO anyone know how I can get the kernel to see my USB ports before my system complete booting an error messege comes up stating acpi is not up to date a force was needed. But how can I go into the kernel an edit this line.

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SMTP SERVICE GOING DOWN

HelloI have configured a new qmail server and all services are working good.After some time i found that SMTP services is frequently going down if i check qmail stat it showing a big queue more than 20000. I tried to send mail from my server to gmai...

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Impressions

Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the 3rd beta of the next version of their immensely popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox would be available for download. I’d posted earlier on the impressive changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2. So what does the third Beta bring? Let’s have a look. Share This

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Ubuntu Live Stats

After few months of server downtime, Ubuntu Live Stats is operational again! The main idea behind this project is to reflect the enormous activity Ubuntu has on all fronts. Simply put, Ubuntu Live Stats gathers data from every source they think is interesting - ie, from forum, both English as well as other [...]

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KDE 4.1: Visual Changelog (rev 783000)

Korneliusz Jarzebski, the autor polishlinux has posted a neat article on visual changes in KDE 4.1. Amongst new features include an option in the taskbar to Show tasks from the current screen only, ability to resize Kickoff menu. Kwin also gains the Coverswitch   effect, which is a visual effect similar to Cover Flow in [...]

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Find out how much space each file is occupying

Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads 35M     /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs 177M    /home/sathya/Downloads sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs/ 35M     /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs But this [...]

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andLinux - Run Linux on Windows seamlessly without virtualizers!

andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only])   andLinux uses CoLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. CoLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is like VMware or Virtual PC, CoLinux differs itself by being [...]

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Some Ubuntu Hardy Heron Media - Wallpapers, DVD Covers

Well the new wallpaper for Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out. Have a Look. What do you guys think? Personally, I like it a lot. Really striking, much better than - somewhat bland wallpapers of the previous ones. But still, nothing quite like openSUSE’s artwork. Also, Madsrh has been working on the booklet and DVD inlay [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Gets An XRandR GUI

Here’s a much needed feature, the next version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04 aka the Hardy Heron will finally feature a XRandR GUI.  This feature has been implemented under Alpha 6. Basically this allows the user to change, amongst others, resolution, refresh rate, rotation(ie, to rotate the screen by X degrees) on-the-fly, using the RandR 1.2 [...]

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Teach me Linux - A Compilation of Linux FAQs and Guides

Picture this. You’re fascinated by Linux. You always wanted to try it out. Now that you want to try it out, or have tried out the LiveCD but want to know more details, where do you look for? Of course Google and the Internet is always there. But that would require the right set [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Now Available for Download

Mozilla Developer Center reports that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download. New features and changes in this milestone include: Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security including support for Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager. Improved ease of use [...]

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Presenting Ubunti 8.10ish - The Intrepid Ibex

Mark Shuttleworth today posted on the Ubuntu Mailing list, what is planned for the next version of Ubuntu, titled The Intrepid Ibex which would most likely have a version number of 8.10 and be released around October 2008. To quote him, With Hardy now past feature-freeze it’s time to start to plan features that are being lined [...]

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Amarok tech preview released for Windows

For all those people who miss Amarok badly while on Windows, well fear not, your dream has come true….almost. With the release of KDE4.0 which uses Qt4 framework, which has been GPL’d and available for Windows and MacOSX, a lot of effort has been put in to port KDE4 for Windows, which allows Amarok to be [...]

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Free Software Easter Eggs

 The good folks over at Free Software Magazine got bored writing regular articles on free software. For some chuckles, they decided to research on some easter eggs. Here’s what they found. What is it with cows and GNU/Linux? Let me answer my own self-serving question and show you some varied and slightly bizarre examples of human [...]

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Ubuntu goes mobile: Ubuntu Mobile

  Introducing Ubuntu Mobile - full Internet, no compromise Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing. Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source [...]

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Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek

Sun Microsystems is on a major Open Source Acquistion spree. First it was it’s MySQL acquisition, now it’s moved on to acquire innotek. For those who’re still wondering who or what innotek is, innotek is the developer of the hugely popular Virtualizer, VirtualBox. According to Sun’s Press Release Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has [...]

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What is Linux Passion ?

Is that a question?
Yes it is, for some linux is more than passion. Many times they get blind and start seeing even shortcomings of linux as its features or advantage. So question is that how people get so much attached to Linux? I should say why they get emotionally attached to Linux? Do people get attached to MS in similar way?

A good question and I will keep unanswered as will answer it later.