Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Running fsck on the root filesystem using Knoppix

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Knoppix

I recently had a Fedora server with an LVM filesystem on the root partition. Since you can’t run fsck on a mounted disk and you can’t unmount the root file system, (more…)

Get the free software that you need to do just about anything, here’s how

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Free Software Portal

For those of you who don’t already know about free and Open Source software, there are many software programs that can do what you want for free. (more…)

Fight spam while learning Linux

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Linux PenguinFedora Linux

Stopspam

If you’ve never heard of Linux, it’s a free open source operating system. Linux is very different from Windows, and a lot of the configuration is done by command line. While there are many many many different versions of Linux, I like to use Fedora which is one of the more mainstream flavors. The first thing I did to start learning Linux was (more…)