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Beginning the Boot Loading Process in Ubuntu
1 December 2008, 10:35 pm

Although the actual boot loading mechanism for Linux varies on different hardware platforms (such as the SPARC, Alpha, or PowerPC systems), Intel-based PCs running Ubuntu most often use the same mechanism throughout product lines. This process is accompli […]

Logging In to a Remote Computer in Ubuntu
29 November 2008, 4:44 pm

The most basic type of ssh connection is a remote login. This will give you a command prompt on the remote computer, as if you had just sat down in front of it and opened GNOME Terminal. But before you can log in to any machine via ssh, you’ll need to b […]

Freeing Up Disk Space in Ubuntu
26 November 2008, 7:53 am

After using Ubuntu for some time, you might find that the disk begins to get full. You can keep an eye on disk usage by using the following command in a terminal window:df -hThis will show the free space in terms of megabytes or gigabytes for each partiti […]

Ubuntu Prelinking
24 November 2008, 9:38 pm

A lot of Ubuntu software relies on other pieces of code to work. These are sometimes referred to as libraries, which is a good indicator of their purpose: to provide functions that programs can check in and out whenever they need them, as if they were bor […]

Automating Ubuntu Installation with Kickstart
19 November 2008, 10:57 pm

Kickstart is a method for providing a predetermined installation configuration for installing Ubuntu. Instead of having a user enter responses on the install screens, the responses can be listed in a kickstart file from which the install process can read. […]

Web Servers and Apache
17 November 2008, 7:52 am

The flip side of a Web browser is the Web server, the application that actually locates and delivers content from a specified URI to the browser. What does a Web server have to do? At the most basic level, it simply has to deliver HTML and other content i […]