Linux partitioning tips.
The best thing about using Linux is that you have more control over how your files and partitions organised. With your /home folder it is a good idea to have a separate /home partition, this allows...
View ArticleTestdisk data recovery is very easy indeed.
I have recently corrupted a hard disk on my machine by accidentally typing fdisk -I /dev/ads:12 in FreeBSD and overwriting the partition table. Therefore I am using testdisk from...
View ArticleProblems with Fedora Core 16 and move to Ubuntu 12.04.
I have had a show-stopper bug in Fedora Core 16 that is preventing the distribution from loading. I have tried everything to fix this, to no avail. I am installing a CD of Ubuntu 10.10 which I will...
View ArticlePC-BSD, the nice alternative to Linux. A nice Live BSD OS.
I am trying out the PC-BSD 9.0 live DVD at the moment, this distribution of FreeBSD comes on a variety of ISO images, I downloaded the 2.1 gigabyte Live DVD and loaded it up on my Core i3 machine. The...
View ArticleWhy Linux is better than Windows at installing updates.
The Windows installation I have has been reverted back to Windows 7 from Windows 8 after using the Consumer Preview the impression I got from it shows that Microsoft will create another Windows...
View ArticleProblems installing the FreeBSD operating system.
I am installing the FreeBSD 9.0 distribution on a spare hard disk, the first part of the installation is over and now I am installing the ports and other related packages. Once the system binaries and...
View ArticleKMS support coming for FreeBSD 10 and Ubuntu desktop.
Linux Mint and the Unity desktop are compatible, but the Unity interface is prone to freezing and it is nowhere as fast as the KDE 4.7.4 desktop that is a far superior interface that is more useful,...
View ArticleFreeBSD operating system adopted by Netflix for hosting, and what Linux needs...
The FreeBSD UNIX distribution has been adopted by Netflix as the operating system of choice for their streaming movies service. This does not mean that they will be adding code to the FreeBSD codebase,...
View ArticleThoughts on the new Ubuntu for the Nexus 7 and installing a different shell...
I have just found out that the Nexus 7 tablet now has an Ubuntu distribution that is working on that tablet computer. The Unity desktop does not seem to be very stable on this device though; it would...
View ArticleHow to install updates on various Linux and UNIX distributions.
The MSDOS operating system has quite a lot of command-line arguments that may be used to ease the task of file management. Sure, it is no match for the Linux shell, but the DOS operating system in its...
View ArticleFreeBSD 9.0 ISO interesting and the possibility of using KMS to enjoy a fast...
I have downloaded the FreeBSD 9.0 CURRENT ISO and I am planning to install that UNIX distribution to get more practice using a UNIX based operating system instead of always using Debian based Linux...
View ArticlePlaystation 4 console to be running the FreeBSD UNIX operating system.
The new Playstation 4 console will have the FreeBSD operating system running on it. This will provide a solid UNIX base for the gaming platform. The actual name of the operating system that will power...
View ArticleUseful online resources for learning the bash shell and other useful Linux...
Useful Linux resources and tips. Some useful links and bits of information for budding Linux users. Bash cheat sheet. http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-history-cheat-sheet.pdf. This is a very...
View ArticleLinux has advantages over FreeBSD, but the PS4 has this as its main OS. Could...
FreeBSD is lagging behind Linux on the desktop. Why is this? Linux has an advantage over FreeBSD. The usability of the aforementioned operating system is not up to the standards set by Linux that has...
View ArticleHow I got Xorg mouse and keyboard working on FreeBSD 10
I recently installed FreeBSD 10 in VMware and I had problems getting the mouse and keyboard to work with Xorg. I solved this in the following manner. I added these four lines to my /etc/rc.conf file....
View ArticleFixing the failed checksum from server error on FreeBSD 10 with the command...
The failed checksum from server error is very annoying on FreeBSD 10. I fixed this by using the following command. pkg update -f This updated the package repositories information for FreeBSD 10 and...
View ArticleFreeBSD. A very useful UNIX distribution that makes using your computer a lot...
I have just setup FreeBSD with a high resolution framebuffer console easily. I just typed vidcontrol -i mode to list all available framebuffer video modes and then I set the appropriate mode for my...
View ArticleSet up the package manager in FreeBSD 10.3 after installation.
The package manager in FreeBSD 10.3 is very effective and easy to use for setting up your FreeBSD 10.3 system. Here is how to install it. type this command as root. pkg This will install the pkg...
View ArticleFreeBSD 8.1 needs support.
Tried the FreeBSD DVD on my system last night, I got the operating system installed and the Gnome 2.30 desktop up and running, but I could not get the Intel graphics driver to work with my i3 CPU and...
View ArticleFreeBSD still going well.
My installation of FreeBSD 8.2 is still going very well indeed, I am have installed Eterm, so that I can set a wallpaper with Esetroot and I am playing mp3 music right now with xmms whilst I write this...
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