Here are some tips, hints, and how-to’s for Linux fans of all stripes. But don’t just read the articles–keep going for even more help and insight from the readers’ comments.
- Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins from IBM developerWorks comes this nice little collection of very neat tricks, including how to recover your root password, unmounting an unresponsive DVD drive, and more.
- 10 ways to make Linux boot faster includes even more tips on how to streamline your system’s boot performance–and at the same time, performance in general. Simplify, simplify.
- Anatomy of the Linux file system is another nice, comprehensive and technical overview to the Linux file system. And it’s from IBM developerWorks, so you know it’s accurate.
- CLI Magic: For geek cred, try these one-liners is a nice, quick introduction to using pipes at the command line, as well as doing some text processing with grep and gawk. From Linux.com.
- Easily Password Protect a Website or Subdirectory OK, so this one isn’t strictly Linux, but it’s nice to know how to do it.
- Sync and Back Up Your Data with Conduit for Linux While it’s great to have yet another tool for backup, there’s more to Conduit than just backups. Check it out!
Let me know how you like these links–and if you have any good ones to add!
