Windows Control Panel Equivalent on Linux

Windows control panel is something we are all familiar with in Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista & now Winfows 7. Unfortunately you may not have found a direct equivalent of Windows Control Panel which works in Linux systems like RHEL, Cent OS, Fedora, Ubuntu etc. Despair no more for the solution is here.

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No FUD Dept.: Difference between CentOS 5 versus RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

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Top 10 Features of Fedora 11 Leonidas

fedora-11After reviewing the whole line-up of operating systems, namely Fedora 10, Windows 7, Ubuntu 8.10 and Open suse 11.1 last year, we started doing our bits of researches with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 9.10 overview recently. This time around its Fedora 11 Leonidas. After an extensive research on Fedora 11 which is due on 26th May, 2009, we have finally come out with top features of Leonidas. Let's discuss.

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10 Most Stupid Gifts for this Christmas

In our previous articles, we have hardly left any stone unturned to present you with the list of best Christmas deals. Today, while we were discussing which topic to write on, our Ed came out with a delightful concept.

“What if one doesn’t want to gift someone with good heart”

- “A type of revengeful gift pack you mean?”

- “Yes!” said Ed and here it is.

10 stupid Christmas gifts to give your friends a really annoying time or to play pranks with the teacher whom you hate the most. We chose the best place to inquire about this, stupid.com and we can not but laugh our hearts out on the findings.

Stuatory Warning: The consequences are only for you to deal with. We are not responsible, lol.

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Developer Tips: How To Show Line Number in vi / vim & nano

vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers. A way to get them to display line numbers doesn't jump out easily from their big documentation, so here are my simple tips on how you can display line numbers in vi / vim and nano editors. Full article (148 words) »

How To Play All Multimedia Content on Fedora 9 Linux

All you have to do is run this simple one line command:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc

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Fedora 10 - A Detailed Discussion on 13 Prime Features

With the success of Fedora in Linux distributions, Fedora 10 is perhaps the most anticipated operating system from their library. A faster and advanced distribution is what is proposed by them. Fedora 10, codenamed Cambridge, is set for release on November 25, 2008. So before you go on and download this new Fedora version, let me give you a detailed idea about what benefits and changes are going to be there in this new Fedora 10.

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One Linux Formatting Tip I Bet You Didn’t Know

You probably know how you can format a Linux partition:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda

This formats the partition with ext3 file system. However did you know how to extract maximum space out of this partition, especially if it a large partition?

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Linux Tips: Bandwidth Monitoring, Common Commands, Accounting

Linux Bandwidth monitoring tools and this (better explanations) - Instead of apt-get use yum install for RedHat based systems like Fedora, CentOS and obviously RedHat.

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How To Append File Using SSH

Have you ever searched scp manual for ways to append a file using it? scp is an excellent command to rapidly copy files and directories to / from a remote location. Unfortunately it is of no help when you just want to append a file over ssh connection. Here is a simple solution to append a file over ssh connection in either direction: Full article (104 words) »

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