The Dell Inspiron 2600 is a pretty old laptop, but can still be a useful computer if there’s a decent OS installed. I had been running Ubuntu on this machine, but I started getting random freezes starting with Ubuntu Hardy. As a result, I was running Hardy with an older kernel from Gutsy. There were …
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There are many different GUI based process monitors available for Linux systems. It seems that each desktop environment or window manager has its own solution. The one common process monitor is the command line terminal based top command. Give it a try. To run top, simply open a terminal window and enter:
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Monitor Processes With TopIt’s become a tradition (and a bit of a running joke) for bloggers and tech pundits to declare that this year (whatever year you’re in) will be The Year of the Linux Desktop. So in following with that tradition, I’m here to declare that 2010 will be The Year of the Linux Desktop, but not …
Continue reading The Perennial Year of the Linux DesktopPreviously I’ve shown how to use the bash while loop in a bash script. Today I’m going to show how to use another type of do loop in bash: the for loop. The for loop is a little different from the other looping structures in bash. The other loop structures work by evaluating whether an …
Continue reading Bash to Basics: The For LoopIf you run the Google Gears add-on for Firefox on Linux, then you’ve probably been getting annoyed by Firefox trying to update the add-on and getting a failure message that interrupts your web browsing.
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