What is Priority and Why Should I Care?
When talking about processes priority is all about managing processor time. The Processor or CPU is like a human juggling multiple tasks at the same time. Sometimes we can have enough room to take on multiple projects. Sometimes we can only focus on one thing [...]

Screen is one of those tools you can’t live without once you know about it. In this guide we check out some of the most common uses of screen and give you an introduction to this wonderful utility.

All the best Linux cheat sheets rounded up in one post broken down into Linux command line, Linux security, Linux administration, Gnome/KDE, sed/awk/vim, and distribution specific cheat sheets..

SSHFS is a great tool to have in your arsenal. SSHFS allows you to connect to remote machines running SSH and mount any directory as a local directory on your machine. This allows you to work with remote files as if they were local. One example of this would be to encrypt remote files using local software and retain the ability to do incremental backups with rsync.

Migrating to Linux doesn’t have to be difficult. All you have to do is, get a fresh copy of your favorite distro, backup your data, find out what hardware is compatible, identify essential programs, and have a fresh hard drive or partition ready to go.

We know live CDs are very handy, but live USB installs are even better! With a live USB we can make persistent changes to Ubuntu and carry then from machine to machine using our flash disk. In this post we learn how to create a USB flash disk that will boot Ubuntu on a machine that supports booting from USB.

Using Linux as your primary operating system for web development is a great choice as there are a ton of apps that were developed with Linux specifically in mind. Knowing which apps to use makes web development in Linux easy. In fact I find that it is much easier and productive to do web development in Linux. In this post we look at all the applications you are going to need to get you started developing quickly.

You don’t always get to control what types of compression programs people use which lead to multiple types of files to deal with. 7zip files noted by their extention, 7z are compression files that use an open source algorithm that tends to have a higher compression ratio than others. Unfortunately, it is a fairly uncommon type of compression and default Linux distros often times don’t come with a program to deal with such files. Here I show you the tool you need and how to extract these compressed files.

Getting a LAMP development system setup is really easy in Linux. Using tools like apt we can download all the necessary packages and with a short amount of configuration we should be able to get a quick and dirty webserver up with PHP and MySQL. For those that want a few extra tools we install phpmyadmin, mod_rewrite, and take a look at a2enmod.

Troubleshooting in Linux is a breeze if you know which tools to use and how to use them. In this article we learn to do some general Linux troubleshooting on the most common elements of the computer: hardware, programs installed, network, and log files.