Windows vs Linux Windows uses FAT and NTFS as file systems, while Linux uses a variety of file systems. Unlike Windows, Linux is bootable from a network drive. In contrast to Windows, everything is either a file or a process in Linux. Please see one of my earlier post What “Everything Is a File” Means on Linux.…
Ubuntu released the second and final beta of Ubuntu 12.10 version, code name “Quantal Quetzal”, just two days before. It is a development release, the Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring an absolute latest and greatest software. From the release announcement “The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu…
A backdrop of stars Difficulty: Easy Application: KStars You may already have played with KStars, but how about creating a KStars backdrop image that’s updated every time you start up? KStars can be run with the –dump switch, which dumps out an image from your startup settings, but doesn’t load the GUI at all. You…
From www.cstrike-planet.com: On this page we will explain how to install Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source. We assume you have some Linux knowledge. We will start with Counter-Strike: Source. Installing Counter-Strike: Source (SRCDS) First, lets create a directory where we will run the hldsupdatetool, run the following command: code: mkdir srcds Now we switch to the…
There is a new Linux distribution released almost every week, sometimes, even every day. The latest is one called Stella, and the first version is Stella 6.3. Stella is a desktop-focused remix of CentOS, and Stella 6.3 is based on CentOS 6.3. If you are familiar with CentOS, you know that out of the box,…
Gaming on Linux? A few years ago this would only be said as a joke. Thankfully for us, Linux gaming has evolved offering some mature open source games, as well as some very nice commercial games. Let’s try and find out what are the best 10 games a Linux gamer must play this year… Oil…
http://youtu.be/BEKVl-XtOP8 For Linux, Mac and Windows! While most free and open source games don’t have the production values of big AAA titles, that doesn’t mean that the perception that they all “suck” is true. Join the chat! http://twitter.com/linuxexplore In this week’s OS. ALT I talk about five of the most addicting open source games available…
Sometime when you run an application in Linux, it starts and suddenly stops or just doesn’t work. Then you find that its selinux which is stopping you to run your application. Selinux is good security feature of Linux stop you to execute malicious applications. But it need to disable when you need to run your…
After a very nice discussion over Linux vs Windows between the group members, all the Linux & Windows supporter was trying to prove their OS better. One of the Windows supporter write a text string (can say a command) to execute in a Linux terminal, which can crash it in just one enter. WARNING!!!: DON’T…
The fuser utility in Linux is a powerful tool. As the name suggests it gives information about file user or the process that is currently using the file or directory. But fuser functionality is not just limited to giving information about the process. The article explains how to use fuser utility with 5 practical examples.…