How To

It is really important to know which ports are open in your PC, this is not only useful for Linux, but also for other operating systems, Linux has a lot of tools to check which ports are open, the most common is nmap which is a command line tool, but also exist a Graphical frontEnd for it if you prefer that way.

So to scan you own PC and find open ports you can enter:

sudo nmap -T Aggressive -A -v 127.0.0.1 -p 1-65000

NFS or Network File System is a great way to share documents, or expand your disk space, using the disk on another server, I am using it to share documents between my office and home, I have my office disk mounted in my home's PC using NFS.

Well the PC at my office has CentOS, so the first thing I need is to install the necessary software.

yum install nfs-utils portmap

If you are using Debian write:

sudo aptitude install nfs-user-server pormap

Two of our collaborators has entered new How-tos to that section in the Forums.

Please check:

Installing and using Compiz in ubuntu

and

How to install KDE 4 on Centos

If you want to post a how-to just let me know, and I will enable your account, so you can create How-Tos.

Find here how to take Screen Shots with Linux, could help you specially if you like to write Linux tutorials

If you like to write tutorial, or need a screen shot for any homework or job, the Linux Operating System gives you some very good resources to have this task done.

When you need to compile software on Linux you should take care of the dependencies, if they are not satisfied you will not be able to compile and use the software.

If you are doing this on Debian or Ubuntu, you may have apt-cache to help you.

Introduction

If you are planning to create a VPN or Install Asterisk for VoIP you will need to know the performance of the Network, specially if it is the Internet and not your LAN, but there are also times when it is important to measure your LAN performance, whenever you may need to accomplish this task, you will find iperf as a good tool.

There are some reasons why you may need to move your home directory to its own partition, it could be because you run out of space, or because you may want to share it with another distro in a dual Linux boot installation, well lets start.

You can install Skype on Fedora from its repository, which for me is the best way to do it, specially to stay with the latest stable versions.

All you need to do is to create a file named skype.repo and lacated in:

/etc/yum.repos.d/

And this file should have this content.

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

once this file is saved all you need to do is run the next command

yum install skype

This worked for me in F7

This is a guide to access your Linux partitions (ext2 or ext3) from your windows Vista, if you are using XP read this.

First Download the FS-Driver from its webpage.

Once you have on your Vista disk, right click on it and select compatibility for XP Service Pack 2 as shown on this picture.

This is a step by step guide to install Adobe Flash player 9 on your Mandriva Spring 2007.

First thing you should do is to download the .tar.gz file of the latest version of Flash player.
Get it from here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Sho...

I usually use in my Desktop at home Debian Etch (Stable), but as I also like Mandriva since I tested it, I wanted to install a dual boot system, with both Mandriva and Debian Etch, but I also wanted to have access to both file systems with the same permissions and even have the same /home partition for the two operating systems, so for this I needed to be sure to have the same user with the same UID and GUID in both systems.

You can access a remote file system securely using sshfs and fuse which is a command to mount a remote filesystem encrypted through ssh.

This way you will be able to access remote files as if they were on you machine, just remember that if the connection between the computers is slow, the access will also be pretty slow.

I have recently (3 weeks ago) discover Mandriva, I liked it from the first install, I even made my system Dual Boot (Mandriva and Etch).

Mandriva is the former Mandrake Linux, which joined with Conectiva and now is called Mandriva, its creator Gael Duval is not anymore in the company and he is now starting a new project called Ulteo, from which you can also have the Installationg screenshots.

Ok, after this small "History lesson" we will go into Mandriva Installation screenshots.

There are a lot of installation guides for Linux out there, some are easy to follow some not too much, I have found this one because it link back to this site in the last line of the guide.

It is a step by step guide all with screenshots, it is also really easy to follow.

It uses automatix which I have read is not too good, I have never test it, but I prefer to install things by myself, but that is me, I like it that way because I like to be to one in control of my system.

Ok, I have not tested this yet, as soon as I did I will update this posts, so please if you try it and have good results (or bad) post it on comments.

To install Apache2 on Debian Etch you only need to first install Debian Etch itself

Debian 4 (Etch) Installation screenshots
This is the first part of the Debian Installation tutorial I am planning to write, in this part,
is the installation itself based on screenshots, the next part will be the description about
installing the servers, WEB, Email, MySQL, DNS...

Debian 4.0 has been released. It is recommended that you upgrade the system to latest version. Upgrading remote Debian server is a piece of cake :D

The procedure

Update: If you are looking for support of ext2 or ext3 on Vista read: Access your Linux partition from Vista, but if you are looking for ext2 or ext3 from XP, continue reading.

The software we are going to use is Ext2IFS and can be downloaded from its home page
Once downloaded install it on your Windows system on your dual boot PC.

If you would like to connect to your machine through ssh without being asked for a password you should do this.