There are times when you will want to trim some information from the output of a command. This may be because you want to feed that output into another command. Whatever the reason for wanting to manipulate the output, awk is one of many tools available in GNU/Linux to perform this task. Continue reading
Edit: Oct. 2, 2010 – I’ve written a new post that shows a bash one-liner command that will remove the old kernels from your system in one step. You can check it out here.
If you’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a while, then you probably have a number of Linux kernel updates that have been installed on your system. (I’ve got a total of 3 kernels in my Karmic system already.) In all likelihood, these updates get installed and you boot into the latest kernel, never to use the older kernels again. But these old kernels are still hanging around on your system, cluttering up your grub boot screen and taking up space on your hard drive. Continue reading
The web has been abuzz this week with the news that Google has released an early version of their new Chrome OS. This early version is actually the open source Chromium OS. If you really want to get a feel for this new operating system, you can follow the directions on the Chromium OS site to compile and build the OS to make your own flash drive image or VMware image. I was unable to get my VMware image running, but my flash drive image does work. Continue reading
In Part 1 of How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu I showed you some of the steps required to get Ubuntu ready for a fresh installation of WordPress to use for web development. In Part 2 I’ll go through the steps of installing WordPress itself.
First, you need to download the latest version of WordPress. As of this writing, the latest is version 2.8.6. Continue reading
In this first part of How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu, I’m going to show some of the things you need to do to prepare your system for the actual WordPress installation. I’ll cover the steps of installing WordPress itself in Part 2.
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, php. This is the basic web server setup you need to host a website. Even though you won’t be hosting the site out to the internet, you’ll need to have LAMP installed and configured to run WordPress on your computer. This tutorial assumes that you already have Ubuntu installed. Then, install LAMP on Ubuntu. Continue reading