If you’re a heavy user of the GNU/Linux command line, then you’re already familiar with the man command. If you’re a newbie, the man command (short for manual, as in RTFM) pulls up the online documentation for terminal commands and outputs it to the same terminal. Perhaps you wish you could have some of these handy documents loaded on your PDA or smartphone as a reference. Continue reading
I’ve written a few posts about restarting USB service in Ubuntu before. This is an update to that process for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).
As of Ubuntu Jaunty, the usb kernel module is called usb_storage. Continue reading
RockBox is a free and open source firmware available for several different digital music players. Stable releases are available for the following music players:
In this tutorial I’m going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website.
This command is useful if you want to replicate a GNU/Linux installation from one computer to another.
For those who are impatient, I’ll cut right to the chase. This command will create a file in your home directory called installed.txt that contains the listing of your installed packages. Open a terminal and enter: 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