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Posts tagged ‘linux distributions’

30
Dec

Tip: Extending Yum With Plugins

Yum is the excellent package manager used on Red Hat, Fedora, and other related Linux distributions. Did you know you can extend its usefulness with plugins?

27
Dec

Red Hat – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 review

Linux distributions tend to fall into one of two camps. The first are those, like Ubuntu and Fedora, that are aimed mostly at enthusiasts and others happy to teeter on the bleeding edge of technology. The other group consists of more stable, commercially supported software, designed for those after less excitement, and includes products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). New releases are a rarity in this category, so when a major new product like RHEL 6 comes along it’s a big event, and one worthy of close attention.

27
Dec

12 Commands Every Linux Newbie Should Learn

It’s a testament to how far Linux has come that users today don’t typically have to use the command line if they don’t want to. Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern Linux distributions that there’s simply no need, in general.

22
Dec

Top 10 Linux distributions

Want to get into Linux? MyBroadband takes a look at the ten most popular Linux versions

18
Dec

How To Compile The Kernel In Ubuntu And Other Debian Based Linux Distros, The Easy Way [Video]

So you want to compile and maybe even apply a patch to the kernel but you’ve always thought that’s too difficult? Well, it isn’t, thanks to KernelCheck, a program that automatically compiles and installs the latest Kernel for Debian based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.).