Fedora is cutting edge. There is less reliance on stability and more reliance on trying out new things. If you want the latest stuff now then Fedora is definitely the way to go. For new users though the installer itself is a bit of a tricky customer and you may find the odd issue as you go along. You should ...

This is a small post on how we can view list of assigned labels for partitions in Linux OS. We some times assign meaningful labels to partitions so that we can name them in /etc/fstab file for readability. For example most of the time we label boot partition with label as “boot”. So how can we see available or assigned ...

Linux operating systems are free and open source. They work really well for the people who want to use a comparatively low priced OS in order to establish their network. Linux is used in most of the server networks. Linux was established to be used a secure OS which helps in supporting the working of even the major networks. More ...

Some times we need to check the status of a service if it is running or not to cross verify something on server. Suppose you have edited your httpd.conf file and when restarting the service it just show start service is on. But when you try to get access to the web site the site is down. At that time we ...

Puppy is designed to run from a USB pen drive or from DVD. It is not designed to be installed to the hard drive although it can be. The approach taken by Puppy is about minimalism where functionality trumps pretty graphics. All the usual favourites can be installed including FireFox and VLC but there are a host of lightweight alternatives ...

  10 years ago the Linux landscape looked a lot different to how it looks today. Ubuntu was still in development. At that time there were other Linux operating systems leading the way including Mandrake (Mandriva), openSUSE and PCLinuxOS. Mageia was originally a fork of the Mandriva codebase and it is a community driven distribution targeting the same sort of ...

There are various ways and tools to find and list all running services under Fedora / RHEL / CentOS Linux systems.   service command – list running services service --status-all service --status-all | grep ntpd service --status-all | less Print the status of any service To print the status of apache (httpd) service:                service httpd status List all known ...

Red Hat, Fedora, and Red Hat based Linux distributions such as CentOS make use of the script called chkconfig to enable and disable the system services running in Linux. How to enable a service As an example, lets enable the Apache web server to start in run levels 2, 3, and 5. This is how it is done. We first ...

A definite must try for new users to Linux. It always surprises me that PCLinuxOS languishes lower down in the top 10 rather than sitting up in 2nd or 3rd. For new and inexperienced users, PCLinuxOS provides the closest experience to what they are probably used to than any of the aforementioned distributions (with the possible exception of Linux Mint). ...