So you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux, or have just switched to Linux? Oops!!! what I am asking! For what else reason would you have been here. From my past experience when I was new to Nux, commands and terminal really scared me, I was worried about the commands, as to what extent I have to remember and memorise them to get myself fully functional with Linux. No doubt online documentation, books, man pages and user community helped.....

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock. Debian Linux is one of the most popular and freely available Operating System developed by Debian Developers around the world. They are involved with various activities viz. maintaining software repositories, graphic design, legal analysis, software licenses, documentation, web & ftp site administration etc. Debian supports several Desktop Environment like GNOME, KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications,.....

Ubuntu 13.04 non LTS “Raring Ringtail” Server was released on 25 April 2013. This guide shows installation of recently released Ubuntu 13.04 Server with screenshots. This release includes latest and greatest packages, some of them areOpenStack Grizzly Pythan Juju 0.7 Ceph 0.56.4 MAAS 1.3 TMongoDB 2.2.4 OpenvSwitch 1.9.0Download Ubuntu 13.04 Server Edition You may visit the following links to download Ubuntu Server 13.04 install images.....

linuxmessenger app is a “Facebook-like” client for Linux desktop was written in Python language. It allows you to login to your Facebook account right from the command line without installing it on your system and have chat with your loved ones with much a like a Facebook interface. If you want, you can install it as a desktop client. This application has some built-in features like desktop notifications, pop-up alert, friends request.....

Innotop is an excellent command line program, similar to ‘top command‘ to monitor local and remote MySQL servers running under InnoDB engine. Innotop comes with many features and different types of modes/options, which helps to monitor different aspects of MySQL performance and also helps database administrator to find out what’s wrong going with MySQL server. For example, Innotop helps in monitoring mysql replication status, user.....

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command line version of the most popular “du command“. It is based on ncurses and provides a fastest way to analyse and track what files and directories are using your disk space in Linux. It provides an excellent ncurses based interface to display the information in more intuitive way like columns for how much disk space used in megabytes, gigabytes and graphical bar usage, file/directory names, file deletion,.....

The “pydf” (Python Disk File System) is an advanced command line tool and a good alternative to Linux “df comand”. It is used to display the amount of used and available disk space on a Linux file systems, same like df command, but in different colours. The output of the pydf command can be customizable according to your needs.This “pydf” command is written in python language that displays the amount of disk usage.....

It’s really very tough job for every System or Network administrator to monitor and debug Linux System Performance problems every day. After being a Linux Administrator for 5 years in IT industry, I came to know that how hard is to monitor and keep systems up and running. For this reason, we’ve compiled the list of Top 15 frequently used command line monitoring tools that might be useful for every Linux/Unix System Administrator. These.....