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with help of “ps” and “pidof” commads we can determine how much cpu and memory is consumed or used by particular process and command.

Last year, Cisco took its case against the Microsoft-Cisco merger to court in Europe. While it didn't oppose the merger, the networking giant wanted EU regulators to impose rules about "standards-based interoperability." In a blog post, Cisco VP Marthin De Beer said the very future of video communications was at risk.

Apple OEM contractor Foxconn is prepping several products based on Mozilla's Firefox OS, says an industry report. The new products, one of which is rumored to be a tablet, are expected to be announced on June 3 in collaboration with Mozilla. On May 27, Focus Taiwan reported that Mozilla and Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., better known as Foxconn, will on June 3 unveil a device running Mozilla’s Linux- and HTML5-based Firefox OS. The story also noted that an industry insider told the publication the product was likely to be a tablet.

Red Hat (RHT) is making bold statements about its IaaS Open Hybrid Cloud strategy -- only a few days after VMware (VMW) launched its vCloud Hybrid Service. So what's the reality check? It goes something like this...

Scrolls the new game from Minecraft's studio. Mojang originally said back in November that Scrolls will be on Linux, now it seems it won't be just yet.

A new version of xine-lib was released today, which is the library that powers the Xine multimedia playback engine. The xine-lib 1.2.3 release brings numerous features including VA-API hardware video decoding and support for OpenGL 2.0 output.

For more years than I care to count, I read statements and saw Microsoft server events where Bob Muglia declared why Microsoft's server was so good. Muglia no longer works for Microsoft (he moved to Juniper two years ago) and he no longer oversees a software portfolio that is based on Windows either. Juniper, like nearly every other networking vendor on the planet -- uses Linux.

Another game for Linux. In a world abundant with evil scientists with monkeys growing out of their heads, where goldfish plot planetary domination schemes, where sidekicks cope with stress by turning into a monster and attacking the hero... In such a world, gamers are justified in wondering why they should care if Doug TenNapel returns to game design. This is not that world. This is a world that needs Armikrog.

I'm still amazed how most companies, even when they've been breached and their reputation has been ruined, fail to fight malicious hacking correctly. Instead, they erect security defenses that have little to do with the threats they're hoping to prevent. Let me give you a common scenario: I frequently consult with large companies that have been the victim of APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks. Usually those attacks occur because one or more users were silently infected by a vulnerability that had a vendor patch. Unpatched Java is to blame in more than 50 percent of these cases, but common culprits include unpatched Adobe Acrobat, Windows, and so on.

Since this month was our Raspberry Pi issue, I did some research on "what folks do with their Raspberry Pi". I sent queries out via Twitter, Facebook, the Linux Journal Web site and even the #linuxjournal IRC room. When it comes to doing extra-geeky projects with the RPi, every person I spoke with mentioned buying parts from Adafruit.

ToOpPy 1.0 "Precise" is available. ToOpPy Linux is a lightweight distribution based on Puppy Linux and localised into a number of European languages. The project's website is in French.

The following tutorial will teach Arch Linux users how to install third-party packages on their newly installed Arch Linux operating system. This is for Arch Linux beginners only, of course.

Can the BeagleBoard’s project latest open-source creation offer competition to the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi?

It’s not very comforting to realize that something I figured-out, as ignorant as I am, back in the 1990s is only now being understood by those who are being paid big bucks to protect us. It’s also not very comforting to know that the controls for nuclear power plants and the like are accessible by the same Internet that can’t keep credit card numbers safe despite draconian requirements by Visa and Master Card.

The two extensions are the Taskbar (by zpydr), which displays icons of running applications on the top panel, showing thumbnails of those applications on hover, and Workspaces to Dock (by passingthru67), which transforms the workspaces of the overview mode into an intellihide dock.

The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS), LinuxCon Japan, Texas Linux Fest, and Southeast Linuxfest each present opportunities to learn about the Xen Project between now and June 9.

With a brand new PC certified for Microsoft Windows 8 and shipping the OS, even if you don't plan to use the operating system, it can be difficult to bypass the Windows license agreement before wiping it to install your favorite Linux distribution...

Frank Bergmann, founder of ]project-open[, talks with us about the open source project management solution and how the company strives for an open culture at the office. He says maintaining communication is essential, and it entails complete transparency and honesty. The community will quickly punish you if this doesn't happen. This is at the core of open source. Frank also tell us who his open source hero is. Read on for more insight into ]project-open[ and how this open company operates.

The Australian government, which had previously decided to mandate the Microsoft-driven Office Open XML format within its departments, has now proposed requiring instead that any office suite used by the government should, at a minimum, support Open Document Format 1.1.

Really? I gotta wonder what (internal) forces mandated this. I have many people I consider friends Down Under and to a (wo)man they all agree that Australia is a Microsoft-owned continent. At least in Government and the Enterprise.

We'll watch and see what happens.

Although a command line isn't a necessity anymore in modern desktop Linux distributions, it is still being used very often. And with various text-based applications, you can perform a lot of tasks within the terminal, from just running some basic commands or edit some text files to more complicated tasks like irc chatting, browsing the internet or even watching media. And just like any other Linux application, there are a lot of Linux terminal emulators around to choose. I've used quite many and here is a list of my favorite Linux terminal emulators.