Tag Archives: Linux

Ubuntu, is it ready for Tablets? Unity Vs. MATE

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Ahmed Tawfik

Today I did a test, comparing the Unity desktop, which is Ubuntu’s default now, on Ubuntu Quantal, to the MATE desktop (forked from Gnome 2) on Linux Mint 14 (also based on Ubuntu Quantal), all 64-bit. The test was run … Continue reading →

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How to get version of Redhat & Oracle Enterprise Linux

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Ahmed Tawfik

Oracle Enterprise Linux: more /etc/enterprise-release, example output: “Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Carthage)” Redhat: more /etc/redhat-release

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How to start the X server at boot with Redhat or Oracle Linux

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

vi /etc/inittab Edit your /etc/inittab file by replacing the line: id:3:initdefault: With this one: id:5:initdefault: and reboot Enjoy! Source: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/rhl_general_faq/s1-xwin-q.html

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Limit a Local System User Access to a Certain Folder when using SFTP on Linux (and disable SSH for him as well)

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

This situation might face a lot of us, if you have a certain file you want to share on your system using SFTP, but you don’t want that user to be able to: login via SSH and run any commands … Continue reading →

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How to get CPU Info of a Linux Machine

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

This worked with me in Redhat and Ubuntu-based distros: “less /proc/cpuinfo” you can get the number of processors easily if you don’t want to read a lot of text: “less /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor”processor : 0processor : 1processor : 2processor : … Continue reading →

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