free I’ve you want to check your memory consumption on a Linux machine, you can use free. This means: I have a total of 3952 MB RAM, used and free should be clear, shared is memory which is shared between processes, e.g. shared libraries. The “buffers” entry tells you how much of your RAM is [...]
Linux users who are not very skilled have a big problem: If they want to buy a new computer or new hardware, it is very difficult for them to find out if something works or not. I’ll give you some hints how you could find it out: Debian device driver check & report This site [...]
find is a very mighty tool. It allows you to apply a very detailed search syntax. Every Linux user should know how to use it. Very basic usage I told you I would start with the very basics, didn’t I? So, you can need the option -iname if you want to do basic matching against [...]
I’ve just installed vrms – the virtual richard stallman Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. He launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; [...]
I’m using Ubuntu now for many years, but I always have to look the commands for retrieving hardware information up. Now I will not Google any longer but search in my own little cheat sheet. I guess most commands will work in every Linux distribution, but I tried it only in Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Maybe you [...]
The following tipps work under a Linux terminal and were tested with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I guess they will also work with other systems, as the programs are available for them. If you know some further file conversions, please let me know. I am also very interested in Web based conversions. Image Files If you [...]
