Linux tips every geek must know

What separates average Linux users from the super-geeks? Simple: years spent learning the kinds of hacks, tricks, tips and techniques that turn long jobs into a moment’s work. If you want to get up to speed without having to put in all that leg-work, we’ve rounded up over 50 easy-to-learn Linux tips to help you work smarter and get the most from your computer. Enjoy!

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Top 10 Most Popular Linux Distributions Comparison

Linux isn’t a complete operating system — it’s just a kernel. Linux distributions take the Linux kernel and combine it with other free software to create complete packages. There are many different Linux distributions out there.

If you want to “install Linux,” you’ll need to choose a distribution. You could also use Linux From Scratch to compile and assemble your own Linux system from the ground up, but that’s a huge amount of work.

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Linux Explained Simply

Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer’s hardware.

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Dual-primary DRBD on a Cluster File System using OCFS2 with Encrypted Disk using LUKS

When shared storage is available, every node can potentially be used for failover. Pacemaker can even run multiple copies of services to spread out the workload. In this guide, I’ll be using two Ubuntu-14 instances on Amazon Web Services using free tier account with separate public and private networks and allotted 2 disks on each host, 1 for the system and 1 for our storage. The instances are called node01 and node02 to make things easier to follow.

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A quick guide when providing technical support

Whether your product is an open-source script, a Web application or a downloadable product, you will need to provide some form of technical support. This article explores the subject based on my long personal experience of of providing technical support, paid and free. Giving technical support at work and in user community has been my life for a number of years now, not because I love doing it but because i have no other choice, toink! Or I just love to help! :)

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