Zen of Linux

Ever wanted to get a decent ubuntu on an older PC, a legacy machine that you found down the cellar? Then you might run into weird trouble when installing from a live CD or DVD - the installer needs more than the available RAM
While booting the system, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to console
Select a disk […]

There are multiple ways of moving folders from one machine to another. You could connect via FTP, download all stuff and then upload the folder to the other machine. But this approach would suffer from slow connections and a step in-between that is not really needed. So the best and easiest way ist to trasnfer […]

Coming from Windows, doing simple tasks on linux or ubuntu can sometimes appear to be hard.
To make things easier, here’s the routine to burn a video DVD on ubuntu:
Use (!) tovid, a wrapper for all the underlying scripts and tools. If you haven’t installed it yet
sudo apt-get tovid
use tovid to create the basic menu structure. […]

In the previous post you’ve learned how to share folders among pure linux machines. Now, in reality you’d like to access that securely hosted files on that linux server from a machine running Windows XP. Here’s how to achive that:
On the server
sudo apt-get install samba
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
and add:
workgroup = GROUP
netbios name = little_smb_server (no […]

First post on the zen of linux. A good start would be a basic post about how to get multiple machines working on a shared folder.
The way to go in the linux/unix world is to use the pretty stable and reliable NFS filesystem.
At first, you have to select a machine you would like to make […]