Programming. Computer. 10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. If you’re going to be installing a freshly minted copy of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS later today or this weekend then the following list of 10 reader submitted post-install must-do’s will help ensure that you’re off to a flying start with your new OS. 1. Run Update Manager Just because you’ve installed the latest version of Ubuntu doesn’t mean that there won’t already be a handful of bug fixes updates or patches waiting for you. Make sure you run the update manager (if it doesn’t update you first) so that you’re benefitting from the latest fixes and features. 2.
Enable graphics card drivers for 3D fun If you want to use advanced desktop effects such as Compiz (3d Cube, wobbly windows) then you will need to enable the “official” drivers for your graphics card. Ubuntu should automatically detect and alert you that 3D drivers are available. 3. It’s a shame this step has to be included at all but sadly Ubuntu aren’t allowed by law to ship certain multimedia codec’s out of the box. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Bash Guide for Beginners. Boot with GRUB. GRUB: it's neither larva, fast food nor the loveliest of acronyms in the GNU herd of free software. Rather, GRUB is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. And, it is truly the greatest loader for booting Linux and practically any other OS—open source or otherwise—you may have scattered on your platters. GRUB is independent of any particular operating system and may be thought of as a tiny, function-specific OS. The purpose of the GRUB kernel is to recognize filesystems and load boot images, and it provides both menu-driven and command-line interfaces to perform these functions.
GRUB is in its element with the multiboot, multidisk systems typical of Linux and open-source adventurers who may simultaneously test or track several Linux distributions, the BSDs, GNU/Hurd, BeOS and perhaps that vestigial partition for Mr. Installation of GRUB is a two-step process. The first step is the usual: download the source archive, untar it, configure and make install. Mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy. Linux System Administration and Configuration. Basic command line: Also see ntpstat, smbstatus, ifstat, prtstat, pidstat, lpstat, mailstat, sar, cifsiostat, ... GUI/Graphical: List of tools: tools for finding the status of your system Processes execute within their own process environment, they have their own memory, current working directory, priority, process ID, parent process ID and the file access privileges of the user ID under which they execute.
The basic Linux monitoring commands such as pstree and ps -auxw and top will inform you of the processes running on your system. Identify the process: pstree -p OR ps -auxw OR top Kill the process: kill <process-id-number> killall <command-name> This will perform an orderly shutdown of the process. A signal may be given to the process. In the previous example, the HUP signal was sent to the process. Identify all known signals: fuser -l Process Monitoring and Management GUI Tools: xosview: Oldie but goodie. Also see the GUI tool QPS. Then install qps: rpm -ivh qps-1.9.7-5.i386.rpm. Linux.com :: Ten tips for new Ubuntu users. 1. Getting multimedia to work The default Ubuntu install contains free software only, which means that it doesn't support some popular multimedia formats straight out of the box.
This is inconvenient, but the Ubuntu folks have good reasons for not shipping with support for MP3, DVDs, and so forth -- including that software could cause them some legal headaches, or incur some serious fees. Fortunately, as a user, you don't need to worry about fees (though some of the packages may not be legal due to patent restrictions or restrictions on circumventing copy protection, depending on where you live). 2.
Ubuntu comes with a number of defaults that may or may not be to your liking. The easy way to change this is to use the update-alternatives program, which maintains the symbolic links under /etc/alternatives that determine the default programs for FTP, system editor, rsh, Telnet, window manager, and so forth. To change the default editor, run sudo update-alternatives --config editor. 3. 4. The Linux Documentation Project: Guides. The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is working on developing good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation (man pages, HTML, and so on) to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux.
Here is the Linux Documentation Project Manifesto and Copyright License for LDP works. Translations of LDP works (languages other than English) can be found on the "Non-English Linux Info" links page. Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide This document is both a tutorial and a reference on shell scripting with Bash. It assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. Below is a table of translated guides that are available from pub/Linux/docs/ldp-archived/.