Leverage Ubuntu’s default sudo installation to allow fine-grained control over privileged access. If you have used a number of different Linux distributions in the past, one surprising thing you’ll notice the first time you use Ubuntu is that it disables the root account. For most other distributions, the installer prompts you for root’s password, and … Read more
Linux has inherited from UNIX a well-planned hierarchy for organizing where things may be found. It isn’t perfect, but it is generally logical and mostly consistent, although distributions do tend to make some modifications that force some thinking and adaptation when moving between, say, Fedora, Slackware, and Ubuntu. The following table shows some of the … Read more
Often, power users want to avoid using the mouse. They don’t want to take their hands off of the keyboard unless absolutely necessary because doing so slows them down. Here are some of the more useful keyboard shortcuts that readers of this book are likely to appreciate, many of which can be configured or adjusted … Read more
PWD is not short for PASSWORD, it may seem like it but in Linux and therefore Ubuntu, PWD stands for “print working directory” and that is exactly what this command is going to do, display the name of the current working directory ( the current directory you are in ) on Ubuntu’s Terminal, printing the … Read more
There is a problem installing Ubuntu 10.04 and other versions, with some systems running with Dual Core or Core 2 Duo, a process in the system has and maintains one of the cpus at 100%, causing heating problems and ultimately harming our operating system solution First we have to check what process is causing the … Read more
Enable Full DVD Playback in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Though installing the restricted extras package will solve most of your problems, you may not be able to play dual layer dvds yet in your Ubuntu. Most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (the Content Scrambling System), which attempts to restrict the software that can play a DVD. … Read more
you can immediately shut down your system by using the shutdown command like this: $ sudo shutdown -h now You can also use the shutdown command to restart your computer, as follows: $ sudo shutdown -r now
Este truco es uno de los mejores que puedes utilizar para ahorrarte tiempo a la hora de tener que escribir largos nombres de archivos en la línea de comando. Esto lo logramos con el uso de comodines, que en Ubuntu le llamamos globbing, nos permiten referirnos a archivos u objetos de largo tamaño utilizando comodines … Read more
[button link=”http://google.com/linux” color=”lightblue” newwindow=”yes”] Go Linux[/button] Sabían que Google a separado el mundo de Linux creando un buscador por separado que realiza las búsquedas específicamente en sitios relacionados con Linux, el cual a indexado previamente para no mostrar sitios fuera de el. Solamente digita esta dirección en tu explorador http://www.google.com/linux o dale clic al … Read more