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Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples
Have you wondered why certain programs are located under /bin, or /sbin, or /usr/bin, or /usr/sbin? For example, less command is located under /usr/bin directory. Why not /bin, or /sbin, or /usr/sbin?
Linux: Install a million games in one click!
Linux: Install a million games in one click! Updated: December 16, 2009
32 Best Linux Desktop Customization #4
Voici la quatrième édition des meilleures personnalisations de bureaux Linux. Six mois se sont écoulés depuis la dernière présentation , les tendances n'ont pas beaucoup évolué, sauf peut-être que l'on voit de plus en plus de customizations à base de KDE (cf. 6 derniers screenshots). Je vous laisse les découvrir sans plus attendre.
Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs
Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them. (Thanks for the tips, everybody!) dstat & sar
Guide to Advanced Linux Command Mastery - Part 1
DBA: Linux by Arup Nanda Published August 2006 In Sheryl Calish's excellent article “Guide to Linux File Command Mastery," you learned some routine Linux commands, which are especially valuable for Linux newbies. But now that you have mastered the basics, let’s move on to some more sophisticated commands that you will find extremely useful. In this four-part series, you will learn some not-so-well-known tricks about various routine commands as well as variations in usage that make them more useful. As the series progresses, you will learn successively difficult commands to master.
A Linux distribution (often called distro for short) is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel . Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications. These operating systems consist of the Linux kernel and, usually, a set of libraries and utilities from the GNU Project , with graphics support from the X Window System . Distributions optimized for size may not contain X and tend to use more compact alternatives to the GNU utilities, such as BusyBox , uClibc , or dietlibc . There are currently over six hundred Linux distributions . Over three hundred of those are in active development, constantly being revised and improved.