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Technical resources for Linux programmers and system administrators

Learn Linux 101: Create partitions and filesystems

Divide and conquer Linux disk space with formated partitions to use as swap or data space. Prepare for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or learn more partitions and Linux filesystems. Updated to include Objective Changes for the LPI 101 exam as of July 2, 2012. More >

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Learn Linux, 101: Find the right Linux boot manager: GRUB, GRUB 2, or LILO
Choose and configure a boot manager (GRUB, GRUB 2, or LILO) for your Linux system. Study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or learn for fun. Updated to include Objective Changes for the LPI 101 exam as of July 2, 2012.
Learn Linux, 101: Plan Linux hard disk layout and partitions
Design a partition layout for disks on a Linux system. Study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or learn for fun. Updated to include Objective Changes for the LPI 101 exam as of July 2, 2012.
Aakash2 - A $20 (the world's cheapest) Android tablet
Learn about Aakash (sky) version 2 or Aakash-2, an inexpensive Android-based tablet computer developed by the Indian government to equip every student and improve the education scenario for poorer students.
Zsh - The new Linux/Unix shell everyone's talking about
What really is Zsh? Zsh (Z Shell) is a UNIX shell with a powerful shell scripting engine. Zsh is an improvement over the Bourne Shell and includes some of the features of bash, ksh and tcsh.
Process real-time big data with Twitter Storm
What makes Twitter Storm different? This open source. big-data processing system supports distributed real-time processing and is language independent. Investigate Storm, its architecture, and the spectrum of batch and stream processing solutions.
Estimate file space usage with du command in Linux
How much space is that using? Well, duh! Actually, the command isn't duh (or doh!)—it's du. Learn more about this handy console command. The Linux section editor uses it all the time, but still found a few extra tricks in this article.
Save a file (that requires root permissions) from within vim editor
In the Real-World Linux blog, contributing moderator Himanshu Arora shows how to do a nifty trick in the VIM editor. He is using it to override root privilege issues, but the potential is there for some other interesting things as well.