Linux tutorials

Gooseberry – An alternative to Raspberry Pi

Gooseberry is another alternative to Raspberry Pi, and according to the manufacturers it is three times faster than its rival. This new berry comes...

Write your own Youtube music downloader script

It's an undeniable fact that Youtube is one of the top three most visited websites in the world. Many people upload their personal moments,...

Secure Erase your SSD

The SSD drives have already hit the market and their arena is shaping up to be fierce with a lot of players. For those...

Nvidia 302.17 has been released! Install in Ubuntu12.04, LinuxMint13, Fedora17

Few days ago was released Nvidia 302.17, the new release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes, some of the new added...

openssl to convert cer chaine files to p7b files

Question: How to convert cer files to p7b files ? Answer: Lets download the  cer  files  from the  server openssl s_client -connect mijn.ing.nl:443 -showcerts CONNECTED(00000003) depth=3...

Conky_7 and Conky_8- Just Another 2 Stunning themes for Conky

In my previous posts, we saw together many nice themes for conky (Conky Lua, Conky_2, conky_5 and more). Recently was released 2 new conky...

How to set up Python scripting for Apache

In this post i will show you how to set up Python scripting for Apache. Note that I assume that you have already set...

How to replace Activities word with any image in Gnome Shell

For this tutorial I will use Gnome Shell 3.4 and its default theme, but this will work also on 3.2 and pretty much on...

Howto- Install Python 3.x in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora & Centos

Question: How to install Python 3.x in Ubuntu, Fedora &  Centos? Answer: 1- To be able to compile Python Source, you will need few packages. Open...

10 great and powerful Linux commands you may need to know

 Command line is more powerful because you can do  lot with them,  you can tell your computer exactly what you want and get the appropriate answer. That...

AMD released ATI Catalyst 12.3, howto Install in Ubuntu and LinuxMint

AMD announced the release of AMD / ATI Catalyst 12.3, the biggest news of this new release is that Catalyst 12.3 now fully supports...

A relook at Sunflower file manager

Sunflower File Manager, the dream file manager that integrates into GNOME framework has now reached Alpha phase. Every since thedream twin-panel file manager began two...

VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released! PPA Ubuntu11.10 and LinuxMint12

VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released, this  is a major release of VLC that comes with faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware,...

Howto- NumLock on by default in Linux

If you prefer that the NumLock is activated automatically when you turn on your computer, then follow the instructions in this post. Install the package ...

How to disable server signature using .htaccess or by editing Apache?

Question : How to disable server signature using .htaccess or by editing apache config file? Answer: Attackers can use server signature to their advantage when performing...

Newrez- A great nautilus script to change screen resolution to one...

Newrez is a great nautilus script that help you change screen resolution easily, this is not all, the great feature is that it lets...

How to Convert RHEL 6.x to Centos 6.x

Question : How to Convert your RHEL 6.x to Centos 6.x ? Answer : If you are using RHEL 6.x and you want to move...

A Quick Introduction to Rtorrent

Rtorrent is a command line BitTorrent client, which has a ncurses interface and is extremely efficient in memory and cpu usage. Setting up rtorrent Use your...