• CentOS January 20, 2012

    How to remove unused Kernels in Fedora/Centos/Redhat Linux

    I have a Fedora 16 system . Through kernel updates now I have several Kernel options when I boot the machine.  So thought of removing old kernels.I like to keep the boot process clean. there are few way to remove the kernels that are no longer c...

  • CentOS January 11, 2012

    RAID – why should I want / need it ?

    It depends... First, if you dont have anything critically important on your computer, and you are satisfied with its speed, you dont need raid. If your computer is fast enough but has critical data, and you do backups regularly No. Here is w...

  • How To January 4, 2012

    How to zip / unzip a folder in linux

    My friend keep forgetting the command to zip & extract  a folder in Linux , he use to ask me atleast once in a week. bcoz of him I am writing here , how to zip and unzip in linux. >>       zip - package and compress (archive) f...

  • How To December 1, 2011

    How to format a USB pendrive in Linux ?

    Here some more recent RnD done on my end and it will help you to make out easily while you trying to do formating your usb in linux. Type the following command to find out USB pen partition name: [root@thiyag]# df Filesystem     1K-bloc...

  • Fedora November 10, 2011

    Install Google Chrome with YUM on Fedora 16/15, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6

    This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 16, Fedora 15, Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12, CentOS 6 and Red Hat 6 (RHEL 6). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own...

  • Fedora November 10, 2011

    How to install VLC Media Player for Fedora 15 and Fedora 16

    After installing Fedora 15,one of the first things to do is Installing a good media player i.e. VLC Media player.It is free open source media player written by VideoLan Project.VLC Media Player is cross platform too,which means it has versions for...

  • CentOS September 28, 2011

    Wireless (broadcom-wl) not working in fedora 13 for Dell 1545

    Fedora 13 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers On Dell laptop, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to t...

  • How To September 28, 2011

    How to Install VLC On fedora 8, 13 , 15

    How to install VLC on Fedora X Y Z Some of you who recently switched to linux or who are planning to switch to linux, are may be looking for a good media player which will play every thing on Linux, or looking for how to install VLC, This post ...

  • Tips August 9, 2011

    10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools

      When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may ...

  • Tips August 8, 2011

    How to Linux Check Bind Version

    I‘m running Bind name server on Linux. but I’m not sure about version. How do I check bind version under Linux operating systems? You can simply use the following commands to check bind server version: [root@73 ~]# named -v   ...

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