Q. How do I find out what version of ubuntu I have? A. If you are running a desktop edition, do the following: 1. Go to the Main Menu. 2. Click System, mouseover Administration and select System...

To increase performance on your linux box and decrease IO waits for applications that use /tmp, you can mount it as a ramdisk. The process is simple, just keep in mind that it gets cleared any time a ...

Q. I've just install CentOS version 5.x and my system keeps losing the default gateway on reboots and network restarts. A. It seems like a bug and has been reported on trixbox as well. A quick way t...

Q. I would like to install a DHCP server. 1. Should I pick Windows or Linux 2. What are the install steps? A. To answer 1st question - its up to you. There's no clear advantage to using one or t...

Q. I would like to have a PDF editor for Linux. Are there any options? A. That hand has a lot of low cards in it, but you may be able to find something to do basic editing. PDFEdit On top of the...

Q. I'm having some problems configuring XTerm under gnome. How can I make the font bigger? A. There are several things that you can try Method 1 Try creating an alias in ~/.bashrc alias xtrem='...

Q: I have a new disk and I would like to mount it on my existing linux install. I can't use the device name (eg. /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb3, etc) because every time I reboot the partitions shuffle around. ...

Q. I would like to play this DVD online - how do I do that? A. Websites nowadays are using swf and flv file formats to play videos hosted on their site or sites, it's advantage is clear in that the ...

On unix-based systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table. You can read more about it on wikipedia. # ps aux | ...

When transferring large amounts of data, its a good idea to tar/gzip it first. What if there is not enough space on the source system to contain both the original content and the tar/gzipped content? ...

This is a short HOWTO on setting up secure shell access without a password Generating Keys Protocol version 1 key generation To create the most simple key, with the default encryption, open up a...

If you'd like to send emails using sendmail and your ISP's SMTP server (or another smarthost), do the following in sendmail.cf: Find a section that begins with DS and input your relay SMTP server: DS...

With Ubuntu 8.10, the previous method doesn't work. This is a way to manually set the keyboard layouts: Create a file in /usr/bin/ vim /usr/bin/fixkeyboard Add following lines in this file. I am usin...

To install TrueType on a gnome system, follow these steps: Create a ~/.fonts directory. Copy the TrueType files to your ~/.fonts directory. Verify that the fonts are available to your system wi...

Ubuntu version that was used: 8.04 To begin, install some packages that may be required later on: sudo apt-get install binutils cpp fetchmail flex gcc libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-...