This post compiles a list of tutorials on the Internet for Linux beginners. Linux beginners usually get headache from the “seemed” complexity of the Linux operation system. But once they get into the gate and get familiar with Linux, they will love it. UNIX Tutorial for Beginners “A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux
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Vim as KMail’s External Editor
Posted onVim is my favourite text editor and I also prefer to use Vim to compose Email. I ever used Vim as Thunderbird’s External editor with the help of plugin. I started to use KMail as my email client on KDE and I find it is not hard to configure KMail to use Vim as email
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How to SSH to Linux Hosts for Beginners
Posted onThis is a simple tutorial for beginners to SSH to a Linux host. This is quite easy with the easy-to-use software freely available but the beginners need a tutorials to start with. Hence, I write this tutorial about how to ssh to a Linux host. This tutorial is for users on Windows. 1. Download a
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How to Change Hostname of Fedora Linux
Posted onDifferent Linux distros have different method to set the hostname. On Fedora Linux, it is quite simple. On newer Fedora releases At least from Fedora 19 (sorry, no sure the exact earliest version): You need to edit the file /etc/hostname which just contains the hostname. On older Fedora releases Sorry, I do not know the
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Converting Video Files for iPod/iPhone/iPad
Posted onWe usually have video files in .wmv .mpg .rmvb or .mkv formats. The iPod, iPhone or iPad only accept a limited number of video file types, such as .mov and .mp4. To play these video files in .wmv .mpg or .rmvb format, we should first convert them to .mov or .mp4 files that can played
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Installing ns-2 and ns-3 on Fedora Linux
Posted onns is a discrete-event network simulator targeted primarily for research and educational use. There are two version of ns, ns-2 and ns-3, which are quite different with each other in the implementation and method to use them. In this post, we introduce how to install ns-2 and ns-3 on Fedora Linux 15. Install ns-2.34 on
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Vim as Thunderbird’s External Editor in Linux
Posted onVim is an excellent editor which I use every day. Thunderbird is a nice email application. However, Thunderbird’s integrated editor is not efficient enough to a Vim user. Why not use Vim as Thunderbird’s editor? In this tutorial, we will introduce how to integrate Vim with Thunderbird together in Linux. Install the “External Editor” Thunderbird
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Installing and Configuring 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Linux (Fedora)
Posted onOn a x86-64 64 bit Linux system, sometimes we may want to use the 32 bit Firefox, although the support to 64 bit Firefox is getting much better. Just for needed ones, this post introduces how to install 32 bit Firefox on 64 bit Linux (Fedora as the example). Install 32-bit firefox First, install firfox.i686
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How to Get System Uptime on Linux and Windows OSes
Posted onHow to find out Linux and Windows uptime is introduced in this post. Linux uptime Linux uptime can be easily found out by the uptime command: $ uptime 22:19:29 up 10 days, 22:26, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 The system is up for 10 days, 22 hours and 26 minutes. uptime gives a
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Setting up Stable Xen Dom0 with Fedora: Xen 3.4.3 with Xenified Linux Kernel 2.6.32.13 in Fedora 12
Posted onThis is the latest stable and recommended stable Xen Dom0 solution on Fedora 12. No serious bug found till now and we will fix the bugs by ourselves if some appears. It also works on Fedora 14 as well. It should not be hard to use this solution on other versions of Fedora or other
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Two Gnome Easter Eggs: “free the fish” and “gegls from outer space”
Posted onThere are funny Gnome easter eggs. One is “free the fish”, and another one is “gegls from outer space”. “free the fish” in Gnome 2 Press Alt+F2 to open “Run Application” dialog Enter “free the fish” Hit Enter “geglx from outer space” in Gnome 2 Press Alt+F2 to open “Run Application” dialog Enter “gegls from
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Finding out Linux Network Configuration Information
Posted onThere is various network configuration information in Linux and lots tools can be used to find out those configuration information. Finding out these network information in Fedora Linux as the example will be introduced. IP address, MAC address and netmask ifconfig will print out all the network interfaces and their information including the IP address
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Making dnf/yum Not Update Certain Packages
Posted onWe may not want to update some packages such the kernel on a stable server while updating the system. If we run “dnf update” or “yum update”, we may get suggested by dnf/yum to install all the packages with updates. In this post, how to make dnf/yum not update certain packages such the kernel when
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Linux Port Forwarding Using iptables
Posted onLinux port forwarding is simple to do with iptables which may probably already being used as the firewall or part of the setting up a Linux gateway. In the Linux kernel, port forwarding is achieved by packet filter rules in iptables. Port forwarding Port forwarding also called “port mapping” commonly refers to the network address
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Sending Email Using mailx/s-nail in Linux Through Gmail SMTP
Posted onThe heirloom mailx (or s-nail if you are using Ubuntu 18 or later or similar releases) command in Linux is still providing service for guys like me, especially when we need to send email automatically by script. Gmail is great. Now, how to use gmail’s smtp in mailx/mail? gmail is a little special since gmail’s
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Automatically Backing Up Xen File-backed DomU
Posted onA script for backing up file-backed Xen DomU is introduced in this post. This script can be changed to similar platform. In our cluster, virtual machines are stored under /lhome/xen/. Virtual machine with id vmid is stored in directory vmvmid. The raw image disk file name can also be derived from vmid. Some more details
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Start a Job and Return to the Shell : Run a Backgroud Job
Posted onUnder some situation, we want to start some long jobs and then return to the shell to continue our work. We can do this by starting a job in the background. The shell such as bash will keep a list of background jobs and their status. But only one foreground job is allowed. Job control
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Howto: Git Server over SSH
Posted onGit and SSH are both powerful tools, and git/ssh work well together. We introduce how to set up git server via ssh in this post. Git server through SSH is easy and fast to set up, although every user will have access to all repositories in the git server over SSH and every user is
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Chinese Charactor Configuration on Fedora 11
Posted on最新的更新版本请看: Fedora 中文字体设置. 使用Linux时我个人倾向使用英文环境系统，而Fedora11在英文环境下中文字体有时会不太好看，经常遇到需要字体优化美化的问题。 以下是我的配置方案，经测试效果还算不错，解决了Fedora 11 中文字体难看的问题： 方案1：使用uming和ukai字体，即AR PL UMing CN等。 关键是使用的字体包如下： 首先要安装这两个字体： cjkuni-ukai-fonts cjkuni-uming-fonts 然后配置一下~/.fonts.conf文件. 使sans-serif serif monospace字体中文使用uming/ukai即可. 我的.fonts.conf文件可以从这里下载(两种选择, 我喜欢前者): https://github.com/zma/config_files 使用Liberation和uming/ukai字体: .fonts.cofn.liberation 使用dejavu和uming/ukai字体: .fonts.conf.dejavu 下载后放到自己的$HOME下改名为.fonts.conf就可以了。 使用uming字体效果如下（请放大后看效果）： 方案2：安装文泉驿字体，这个非常简单，安装相应包即可了。 如果喜欢其它的字体选择性的安装上就可以了，只要注意只安装自己需要的就行了。有人使用微软雅黑字体，首先这是侵权的，其次开源的字体做得其实已经很不错了。 最后将字体平滑选项打开, KDE和gnome都有相关设置方法。 以上内容只是针对使用xft字体系统的设置。对于使用核心字体系统的X程序来说字体依然会出现很丑的情况。 下面是针对emacs的设置方法： 首先需要安装这个字体包： xorg-x11-fonts-misc 注意到在中文系统下emacs的中文显示非常好，而在英文环境中去非常差，我们可以利用这一点，在运行emacs前首先将系统环境设为中文即可。 在~/bin/下建立一文件ema 内容如下： #!/bin/bash rm -f ~/.emacs ln -s ~/.emacs.x ~/.emacs LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 emacs –fullheight -r $* 然后加入执行权限即可： chmod +x
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How to Run a cron Job Every Two Weeks / Months / Days
Posted onWe may want to run some jobs for every two weeks/months/days… under some situation such as backing up for every other week. In addition, we may add more complex rules for running jobs, e.g. run a command when the load of the server is higher than a certain level. With the help of the shell
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