I remember when I first used linux I was baffled by the amazingly strange file structure. usr, opt, proc, what do they mean?
Although I never looked it up and learnt it as I went along I think many things would have been clearer if I had.
This page gives a good overview of what goes where.
One […]
I stumbled across this article earlier that gives a good look at the /proc pseudo filesystem.
The contents of /proc can be safely ignored if you want to but for the more curious it can be very interesting.
Happy reading!
George Bunyan
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Unfortunately I wont be able to make the upgrade for a while, but I am pleased to find that Edgy Eft is coming out tomorrow!
For those that don’t know edgy eft is the next version of Ubuntu, my distro of choice.
Instructions for the upgrade can be found in the draft announcement, which I guess will […]
As a person who often looses their watch and looses track of time I find myself using the date command a lot.
A very simple yet powerful command.
george@TheBox86:~$ date
Wed Oct 25 13:26:52 BST 2006
Remember to check out the man page to see just how powerful it is!
George Bunyan
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Zenity is an awesome tool that can be used to add simple guis to your shell scripts.
There isn’t much of a homepage so check your repositories!
Although documentations is a bit thin on the ground it is quite easy once you get the hang of it. As an example here is a very quick and horrible […]
If you do not wish to have members of the opposite sex falling at your feet for you ultimate control over all things linuxy then you can safely disregard this message.
Bash scripting is one of, if not THE greatest reason that bash is great. It allows for quick and easy scripts that would take much […]
If you haven’t been glued to the Penguin.SWF blog waiting for this moment, then here is the news!
Us Linux users can now enjoy Flash Player 9. The greatest feature must be some A/V sync! YouTube is usable again!
Here is the link.
Hmmm… is it worrying that I get very excited over this?
George Bunyan
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For those of you who don’t know about the enlightenment project it is a window manage for Linux. The current release DR16 is soon to be superseded by DR17, which is a massive step up. I have used DR16 happily on older computers with great results, but I want to talk about e17.
Although the main […]
This page gives a guide to the various different linux pronunciations. I use the second version, ‘linnuks’, however most people I know say ‘lynuks’. Don’t worry, if like me you cannot decipher pronunciation keys it includes audio clips for the different pronunciations!
George Bunyan
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I just noticed an article on digg about dual booting anxiety, and I thought it was worth a mention.
The majority of ‘user friendly’ linux distrobutions will tend to automatically detect windows installations and do everything automagically(TM). So a general rule is simply to make sure that windows is installed before linux and all should be […]
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