Limit Permissions with sudo

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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

Understanding the Ubuntu Linux File System Hierarchy

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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

Installing Games in Ubuntu Warsow

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Warsow is a free and fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS)game that is available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Members of the Ubuntu community have packaged the game and make it available directly and easily for Ubuntu users from the software repositories.

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PWD is not short for PASSWORD

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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

Como arreglar el uso del 100% de un CPU en UBUNUTU 10.04

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Hay un problema al instalar Ubuntu 10.04 , con algunos sistemas corriendo con procesadores Dual Core o Core 2 Duo, un proceso en el sistema lleva y mantiene uno de los cpus al 100%, ocasionando problemas de calentamiento y ultimadamente dañando nuestro sistema operativo Solución Primero tenemos que verificar que proceso está ocasionando el problema … Read more

Como montar un 2do disco duro en Ubuntu Server

DiscoDuro_Ubuntu

Que tal si queremos montar un 2do disco duro en tu servidor para utilizar como respaldo o simplemente para rescatar información de un disco duro viejo; Lo más fácil es instalarlo como esclavo en tu Servidor. Ahora Cual es el problema? Que al encenderlo tu servidor no lo monta automáticamente como lo hace en Ubuntu … Read more