strace is a useful little utility – installed by default on most Linux systems – which allows you to find out what a program is doing under the hood by tracing the system calls it's making.
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GNOME Terminal - Command Summary [Mockup]
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"So we all know that users who are new to the command-line find it intimidating, no matter what operating system, they just find it intimidating. These users are the kind of people who never used early Unix or MS-DOS, they were introduced to computers with graphics and point-and-click interfaces. And I've been wondering: What's so intimidating?"
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Alternative To The "200 Lines Kernel Patch That Does Wonders" Which You Can Use Right Away
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Phoronix recently published an article regarding a ~200 lines Linux Kernel patch that improves responsiveness under system strain. Well, Lennart Poettering, a RedHat developer replied to Linus Torvalds on a maling list with an alternative to this patch that does the same thing yet all you have to do is run 2 commands and paste 4 lines in your ~/.bashrc file.
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Decrypt HTTPS Traffic Using Wireshark And Key File
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Wireshark is a useful tool in troubleshooting. Wireshark can decrypt SSL traffic as long as you have the server private key. This can be extremely useful, if you have to debug HTTPS traffic and cannot use HTTP instead.
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Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL, SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.10)
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This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database that Postfix uses.
Read more »GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry (October 2010)
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A monthly look at updates and new releases in the GNU operating system.
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Use Your Linux PC to Teach Students Basic Science
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If you’ve ever experienced one of your kids saying “Mom, how do I solve this math problem? What should I do? I’m bored”, then you’ll appreciate KDE Edutainment to help you teach your kids basic mathematics and other sciences.
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Games free as in freedom
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Looking for 3rd party info on free software games? You probably won't find too much on Wikipedia because the games are still deemed unimportant. Don't despair, that's why there is Libregamewiki! Get your game on!
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 10.10 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Get a $300 Drone and Fly It Using Ubuntu
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Love Drones and Helicopters that you can fly from your garden or rooftop from a remote control? Got Ubuntu? You are in for a treat.
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Terry Burton’s Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript is a fast and flexible barcode generating tool in its own right. BWIPP is a collection of barcode generation functions written in PostScript itself, which can be directly embedded in final PostScript output, sent directly to a printer, or interpreted by a PostScript tool like Ghostscript and turned into an image.
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Linux kernel performance is as good as ever, benchmarks show
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Phoronix has published the results of benchmarks performed on 26 Linux kernels dating back five years, from Linux 2.6.12 to a pre-release version of the upcoming Linux 2.6.37. Despite the addition of numerous features over the years, the results show remarkable consistency.
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Advanced Application Launchers With Zenity
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"Wouldn't it be nice to just start an application at the navigation stage? Well you can. As well as: graphically feed text to Espeak or Festival, graphically display a command's output like a directory listing or a file's contents, graphically start a web browser at a specific website like a Google search with your input, and so much more! This is basic BASH and Zenity, so don't worry, it's easy!"
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 10.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Fedora Linux 14 Released
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The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 14, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution.
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