Most distros of Linux come with appropriate drivers for the most common file system types. Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, older NT systems, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 are formatted with NTFS. In rare cases, OEM manufacturers have pre-installed Windows XP and Windows 2000 to FAT32 filesystems. All of the Red Hat releases of Linux [...]
YUM stands for Yellowpage Updater Modifier is a Package Manager tool for rpm package supportable Linux distributions. It is used to install, uninstall, update, list the available packages and search the rpm packages from the database. Purpose of yum is to install rpm packages easily with all required dependencies for administrators. 1. Install a Package [...]
GNOME is a highly intuitive and user friendly desktop environment for CentOS and RHEL 7 based system. If you did a minimal install, then it will quickly tell you how to install GNOME GUI on a CentOS7 or RHEL7 using a command line options. Linux admin spends most of his time on working in terminal, [...]
(Image Source Google) Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is an Internet software utility for transferring files that is simpler to use than the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) but less capable. It is used where user authentication and directory visibility are not required. TFTP uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) rather than the Transmission Control Protocol [...]
Boot Loader Bootloader or Boot Manager is a piece of code that runs before any operating system is running. When a computer is powered-up or restarted, the basic input/output system (BIOS) performs some initial tests, and then transfers control to the master boot record (MBR) where the boot loader resides. Used to boot other operating [...]
Introduction Find searches in the real system. Is slower but always up-to-date and has more options (size, modification time,...) Locate uses a previously built database (command updatedb). Is much faster, but uses an 'older' database and searches only names or parts of them. locate and find both commands will find file. But each of them [...]
Red Hat, Inc, a company focusing on providing open source solutions, and the CentOS Project announced they are joining forces to build a new CentOS, capable of driving forward development and adoption of next-generation open source technologies. According to a release, this collaboration strengthens Red Hat's business model by extending the Red Hat open source [...]
