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In this tutorial I’ll show how to get some nicely colored man pages by adding several lines inside the .bashrc file, explaining what the code means and how it works.

LINUX, the free operating system that brought professional-grade computing to the lowly PC, has come a long way since doing something as simple as switching off meant performing secret handshakes or offering arcane prayers to the computer gods (eg, “computername ~ # shutdown -h now”). Today, practically all Linux distributions (some 450 are in circulation) hide their stark command lines behind prettified user-interfaces such as Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment or Xfce which mimic the desktop metaphor familiar to a billion Windows users. Should it ever be necessary, shutting down a Linux machine gracefully nowadays involves no more than a few clicks of a mouse.

Note: Very typical praise to crush blog. Ends with very negative conclusion. Many good rebuttal comments in the feedback though.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Work in Umbrello towards supporting the automatic layout of diagrams and exporting to the graphviz dot format, along with optimization, bugfixes, and further migration of qt3 classes to qt4 KDevelop sees further work on the new debugger, which now displays variable values in tooltips and has a proper queue and optimization Kig refactors and improves the PGF/TikZ exporter Digikam includes further work to support XMP sidecar files and fixes to compile on ARM processors read more

Wondering what comes after the cloud? Literally, usually sunshine — haha. But metaphorically speaking, the next great frontier may well be big-data. And Hadoop, an open-source project enjoying ever-increasing buzz as of late, will likely be at the fore as that niche evolves. If you don’t know much about Hadoop, it’s time to learn. Here are the basics.

Quake2World, a standalone game built atop the id Tech 2 engine but with sharply better graphics and other improvements, has finally reached a beta state. There's a number of features to this latest open-source first person shooter...

This short, informal opinion column is about the GNU LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community. LilyPond is a free/open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible, bringing the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts!

There’s an ugly side to Linux. Or to be more specific, Ubuntu Linux. It has suffered from the evil grips of what I describe as ‘Commercialism’.

The second Fuduntu quarterly ISO, Fuduntu 2012.2 is now available for immediate download. As with all Fuduntu releases, this release continues our tradition of small incremental improvements. It is important to note that existing Fuduntu users have already rolled up to this version through the normal update process, and do not need to download or reinstall from this media to benefit from this release.

Linus Torvalds has put out the first release candidate for the forthcoming Linux 3.4 kernel...

Publish news this day is always risky, so I will just do the best wishes for a happy April 1 and point out some very interesting news that i’m sure you’ll like.

1) Chrome Multitask Mode lets you browse the web with multiple cursors at the same time, so you can get more done, faster. Welcome to the ambinavigation revolution.

Last night at 1:30am EST, we received a surprise tip from faithful reader Chaucer. Chaucer will not reveal his true identity for obvious reasons, though he does want to make it known that this screenshot was leaked from Microsoft’s Canterbury campus.

It’s not just teenage girls who are swept away by ‘bieber fever’, apparently Linux, the open-source operating system is the newest entrant to the overflowing list of beliebers. Just two days since its launch, Justin Bieber Linux, more popularly known as Biebian, has taken the open-source community by storm. One-upping Ubuntu and Linux Mint in just a few hours, Biebian has given Linux the popularity and exposure it had been waiting for for years. Though some are scoffing at Biebian’s incredible success, many Linux supporters are basking in the glory of the newfound fame of their favorite operating system.

This guide describes how to temporary fix the blue tint issue of Flash player 11.2.202.228 for Nvidia users.

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on an Ubuntu 11.10 server to monitor this server and another Ubuntu 11.10 server.

Yesterday, I needed to determine the runtime of a Linux process for a monitoring script. Cos the format for start_time of the ps command may change if the process was not started in the same year, I decided to take the neccessary informations from the /proc/<PID>/stat file.

User's ability to attach a priority value to its own process upon execution determines whether you are being nice to your fellow users on the same system. Are you being nice or you simply abuse system resources for no apparent reason? In this article you will learn how to manage your processes in terms of how much processing power they consume and how to change a priority value of your processes using nice & renice Linux command. We will start with some basic theory about what is process, process scheduling, how to fork new process and then we move to nice command and explain how to change process priority value.

Welcome to the 193rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 13 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a lot of releases, including XMBC, Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 4, Red Hat hits $1 billion and more.

Having recently converted to Android from my iPhone 4, I have been very happy with the range of apps to replace what I had on iOS. In many cases, I’m finding the apps better. The Android ethos seems to be more about function, rather than design and aesthetics. However, one area where I’ve found the Android to be lacking is in respect of the “todo” category.

There are plenty of things that you can do when you have plenty of money. Mark Shuttleworth, for example, spent some of his fortune for the privilege of being one of the first space tourists. Another part of his capital is involved in the company named Canonical, which works on the famous Linux distribution, Ubuntu.