There are generally two versions of Linux that everybody is going to provide. Whether you get Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, or whatever distribution that may be, they will normally have two versions of the distribution. One is going to be the server version while the other is going to be the desktop … Read more
Let us now talk about something that just messes with every Windows user’s head when making the switch to Linux: Capitalization. So basically, you have uppercase and lowercase letters. In the Windows operating system, it doesn’t care whether you put in an uppercase or a lowercase letter. If you have a folder named “Home” in … Read more
let us now talk about the shell of the Linux operating system. So what is a shell? The shell of an operating system is the screen that you use to interact with the operating system. If you’re thinking about Microsoft Windows, the Windows shell is that graphical user interface where we have the little mouse … Read more
The first UNIX implementation was developed in 1969 (the same year that Linus Torvalds was born) by Ken Thompson at Bell Laboratories, a division of the tele- phone corporation, AT&T. It was written in assembler for a Digital PDP-7 mini- computer. The name UNIX was a pun on MULTICS (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the … Read more
Linux and Unix systems are no different from Windows systems and can be enumerated as well. The difference lies in the tools and the approach. In this section you will take a look at a handful of the tools that have proven useful in exploring these systems. finger The finger command is designed to return … Read more
Step 1. Open text editor. Step 2. Write a Program. Step 3. Save the program with the extension .C . Step 4. Open the terminal. Step 5. Go to the file location. where your program save. Step 6. Types gcc program name.c . Example : gcc helloworld.c If program compile with out error. it means … Read more
Step 1. Open a Terminal Step 2. type lspci and press Enter Step 3. find any that are marked Network controller or Ethernet controller. … EXAMPLE :
In the early days of Linux (the early 1990s) all that was available was a simple text interface to the Linux operating system. This text interface allowed administrators to start programs, control program operations, and move files around on the system. With the popularity of Microsoft Windows, computer users expected more than the old text … Read more
The GNU organization (GNU stands for GNU’s Not Unix) developed a complete set of Unix utilities, but had no kernel system to run them on. These utilities were developed under a software philosophy called open source software (OSS). The concept of OSS allows programmers to develop software and then release it to the world with … Read more
Now we need to talk about basic folder navigation in the Linux operating system. This is slightly different from Microsoft Windows. However, the funny thing is it looks close enough to Windows that when things do not work right, people have the urge to want to pick up their computer and throw it out the … Read more