10 Helpful Linux Commands at HackITLinux

Ten more basic linux commands I thought could help you 1. "Is" This is used to see the contents of your current directory. 2. "mkdir" This is used to make a directory such as "cats". Type the following: mkdir cats. 3. "cd" This is used to change the directory. To change change to the directory "dogs", type the following: cd dogs. 4. "cd.." This is used to change to the previous [...] Read More


Creating Multiple User Accounts in Batch at HackITLinux

Usually you use useradd command to create a new user or update default new user information from command line. However, let us say you want to create a large number of users or if you want to import usernames from a text file. You can use newusers command, which update and create new users in batch. This is useful at universities or large corporate Linux networks. Adding users in batch [...] Read More


Creating A Linux Recovery Disk at HackITLinux

I found a good article about making yourself a Linux recovery disk just incase something happens to your files. It also teches you how to use the disk after you make it. It teaches you in the following: 1. Creation of a floppy with GRUB on MBR 2. Creation of a floppy with LILO on MBR: 3. Creation of a Recovery Disk: Then below it also Recovery using an install CD and Linux Rescue [...] Read More


Linux ain't Linux at The CIO Weblog

Although Linux devotees, by virtue of their oppressed minority status in the enterprise software market, have been forced to band together in the public sphere and make common cause against the dark forces of proprietary, closed-source software. All this merry singing and hand-holding has eclipsed the fact, to the general public, that in fact there are quite a number of different permutations of Linux out there, each with its own [...] Read More


Twenty-one Reasons Why Linux is Better at Tech Without Wires

Perhaps you are in the process of buying new hardware, a new computer, or something like that, and hey, you have heard a little about Dell selling new computers with Linux Ubuntu pre-installed. Or you are perhaps thinking that your current Windows operating system is giving you the run around? Perhaps you should see why numbers of people are switching to a Linux distribution, say, the most popular one which is [...] Read More