Author: Aly Chiman

Say you have a bunch of pictures and you want to rename them in a certain fashion. You can do it without the use of any external software and without painfully modifying the name of the pictures manually. You can do it using just one command line! (even without using sed nor rename, if in a bash shell) Strategy Open a terminal and access the folder in which you have the files you want to…

This is a beginner guide on how to install software through terminal, using package managers. I will list the most common distributions (according to Distrowatch) and their command to search and install a certain software. Search Ubuntu, Debian, Mint (apt) apt-cache search [software_name] Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS (yum) yum search [software_name] Mandriva, Mageia (urpmi) urpmi -y [software_name] openSUSE (ZYpp) zypper search [software_name] Arch (pacman) pacman -Ss [software_name] Gentoo (portage) emerge -s [software_name] Install Ubuntu, Debian,…

Yet another mobile broadband dongle is not working out of the box on your beloved Linux distribution. If you are new to Linux, this might be one of the most annoying problems you will face, as there is a sea of different kinds of these internet dongles and they usually all require different drivers to be detected. Fortunately, as almost every single wireless broadband dongle user seeks for help on Linux forums for his particular…

I seize the opportunity of a recent problem with Grsync to talk about it. Grsync is an useful GUI for the command rsync. This command is very powerful, since it synchronizes two folders that can be on two different machines, or the same machine. Usually, if on the same machine, rsync is used for backup purposes. Grsync provides a lot of options to make synchronizations and backups and is really user friendly: it only needs…