Category: Linux

Link: 20 Great Terminal Replacements for GUI Applications (Linux)

We’re not big command line fans, but still we occasionally find ourselves wishing that we could do some particular thing from a Linux command line that we would normally do from a GUI-based application, either because we’re on a server with no desktop or because we are remotely accessing a system.  But, we know there are those of you who love using your computer as if it were still the 1980’s.  So if, for whatever reason, you find yourself at the Linux command line, here is a list of 20 applications that might be useful to you.  There might even be a few here you don’t already know about!

20 Great Terminal Replacements for GUI Applications (TuxArena)

Link: How to set up automatic filesystem checks and repair on Linux

One of the most important tasks in Linux administration is to check the integrity of the filesystem. The Linux filesystem can be damaged under various circumstances, e.g., system crash, power loss, disconnected disk, accidentally overwritten i-node, etc. Thus it is a good idea to check the integrity of the filesystem regularly to minimize the risk of filesystem corruption. When it comes to checking and repairing Linux filesystem, fsck is a useful tool.

In this tutorial, I am going to describe how to set up automatic filesystem checks with fsck tool.

Full article here:
How to set up automatic filesystem checks and repair on Linux (Xmodulo)

Link: How to look up the geographic location of an IP address from the command line

If you want to find out where a given IP address is physically located on earth, there are quite a few online GeoIP lookup services you can try (e.g. geoiptool.com). These online services are mostly powered by freely available GeoIP databases such as those from MaxMind. Besides using such web-based services, there are different ways to query the GeoIP databases, notably via the Linux command line.

In this tutorial, I am going to describe how to geolocate an IP address from the command line in Linux.

Full article here:
How to look up the geographic location of an IP address from the command line (Xmodulo)
Related:
Geo IP Lookup API (ProgrammableWeb)

Link: How to Install Netflix on Linux

As omnipresent as Netflix is, it is not officially available on Linux yet. Thankfully, though, developers have come up with unofficial versions of the app. In this article, we’ll show you ways to get Netflix working — using these unofficial versions — on your Ubuntu or Fedora desktop.

Full article here:
How to Install Netflix on Linux (TechSource)

If for some reason you can’t get that to work, see our related previous article:
Link: Pipelight: Use Silverlight In Your Linux Browser To Watch Netflix, Maxdome Videos And More

Link: Tutorial: Customizing Your Bash Prompt

In this tutorial I will show you how you can change the look and behavior of the prompt to show more details or use a different coloring style. I will explain how to try all these examples and how to make changes permanently by adding them inside the Bash configuration file. Please note that this stuff is Bash-specific and it won’t work in other shells.

Full article here:
TuxArena | Tutorial: Customizing Your Bash Prompt (TuxArena)

RELATED: Some of you might prefer to run a program that customizes the bash prompt for you. For you there’s bash-prompt-customizer-cli at GitHub.

Link: Send an SMS Text Message from the Command Line

When you think of sending out text messages you probably think of the iPhone or an Android, and the command line doesn’t cross your mind, but thanks to the ever-useful curl command, you can send out a SMS text message to any phone number right from the Terminal.

Note that while this article comes from an OS X-related site, the technique shown should work in just about any version of Unix or Linux, as long as the curl command is supported.

Full article here:
Send an SMS Text Message from the Command Line (OS X Daily)

Link: Power of Linux wget Command to Downloand Files from Internet

Wget is the command line, non interative , free utility in Unix like Operating systems not excluding Microsoft Windows, for downloading files from the internet. Most of the web browsers require user’s presence for the file download to be completed. But wget allows users to start the file retrieval and disconnect from the system. It will download the files in the background. The user’s presence can be a great hindrance when downloading large files.

Full article here:
Power of Linux wget Command to Downloand Files from Internet (LinOxide)
Related:
Wget. Resume, limit rate and run it in background (G. Garron)
Download an entire website with wget (ugly duck)

Link: Hybryde Fusion: Get 11 Desktop Environments in One Distro [Linux]

If you have been a long-time Linux user, you probably are using your favorite distro, or a desktop environment that can improve your productivity. But what if you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux and you are not sure of which distro to use? To make thing worse, you do some research and find that there are a ton of desktop environments out there and each distro comes with more desktop environments. So, which one should you choose?

That is really a hard to solve problem, and that is where Hybryde Fusion comes into play. It is basically a distro that comes pre-installed with eleven different desktop environments so you can test out each and every one of them and see which one you like. Hybryde Fusion is great for testing and is not meant for live production use.

Full article here:
Hybryde Fusion: Get 11 Desktop Environments in One Distro [Linux] (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Finding Your Raspberry Pi’s System Information

The Raspberry Pi has a lot of system information available like details about the CPU, the current temperature of the processor, the amount of memory and so on. Not all of the information is available in one place; however, if you know where to look, you can discover quite a lot of interesting data about your Pi.

Full article here:
Finding Your Raspberry Pi’s System Information (Make Tech Easier)
Related:
How to Overclock Your Raspberry Pi (Make Tech Easier)

Link: How to spoof the MAC address of a network interface on Linux

A 48-bit MAC address (e.g., 08:4f:b5:05:56:a0) is a globally unique identifier associated with a physical network interface, which is assigned by a manufacturer of the corresponding network interface card. Higher 24 bits in a MAC address (also known as OUI or “Organizationally Unique Identifier”) uniquely identify the organization which has issued the MAC address, so that there is no conflict among all existing MAC addresses.

While a MAC address is a manufacturer-assigned hardware address, it can actually be modified by a user. This practice is often called “MAC address spoofing.” In this tutorial, I am going to show how to spoof the MAC address of a network interface on Linux.

Full article here:
How to spoof the MAC address of a network interface on Linux (Xmodulo)