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Shells play an important role in Linux and Unix system. Everything that is happening on your distro is either because of the shell or the kernel. Moreover, a backend shell is initialized as soon as you made a login . There are lots of shells in the Unix and Linux system. Let’s try to know more about them : What is a shell ? Shell is the software installed on your system that works as command-line interpreter i.e. it takes the commands you type, interpret them and gives them to operating system (kernel) through system calls to execute. There are many different shells available to choose from in Linux.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: July 27, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that they are joining the Information Technology Certification Council's (ITCC: http://www.itcertcouncil.org/) "TechCertRegistry". This service is a first-of-its-kind Web-based credential registry for the IT industry and allows IT candidates, certification program managers and employers, to aggregate, validate and verify IT credentials from participating members.

man woman, No manual entry for woman. Oooh, I just know I'm going to hear it in the comments for that one. But you know what? Just how many of you have tried something similar with other words? You know you have at least once or twice. Go ahead, try one or two..you might be surprised. So why an article on man pages? Well, it's not just man pages, it's more like how to get information from Linux.

KDE 4.7 releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance.

Artila Electronics announced a Linux 2.6.38-ready 3.5-inch ARM9 industrial single board computer (SBC), notable for its support for up to 1280 x 860-pixel touchscreens. The M-505 is equipped with a 400MHz Atmel AT91SAM9G45 processor, 128MB of DDR2 SDRAM, 128MB NAND flash, plus Ethernet, USB, and serial I/O.

ITTIA DB SQL 4.1 has been released with advanced high availability functionality and enhanced replication features.

Pay-what-you want is a pricing system where buyers decide how much to pay for a commodity. One of the most notable examples of this pricing system being used was when Radiohead allowed fans to choose what price they paid for their album In Rainbows.

Eqonomize's approach to its GUI makes it more than a mere checking and savings account ledger. The drop-down menus, tool bar and action panel make a click-and-view style natural and efficient. Despite a few missing features, Equonomize takes the sweat and toil out of personal bookkeeping and banking tasks.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is speaking this year at LinuxCon on opening day about the challenges that still lie ahead as we embark on another 20 years of Linux. We wanted to know more about Whitehurst's perspective as we prepare for the big event and the formal celebration of the 20th anniversary of Linux. Here's what he told us.

Dell has announced its Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution at OSCON and open sourced Crowbar, its "cloud unboxer", as part of the announcement. Dell has been an OpenStack community member since it launched, and has been working with OpenStack's Infrastructure-as-a-service architecture to gain experience of the open source platform and understand customer needs.

Tutorial to learn how to test web interfaces using RobotFramework with Selenium. At Wallix we use RobotFramework to test our products AdminBastion and LogBox in a black box way mainly for exercising the web interface. In this blog post we’ll explain one way of using RobotFramework to test web interfaces either for web site testing or for web application testing.

Ironically, up until that time, Novell and Microsoft had been archenemies, and much of Novell’s market share loses had been due to Redmond’s aggressive marketing. At the time of the SUSE purchase, many in the FOSS community had high hopes that Novell would become an open source asset, even though they had shown a proclivity in the past for snatching defeat out of the arms of victory. All hopes were dashed, however, when they embraced their old enemy with a deal they had to know wouldn’t set well in the FOSS world.

This tutorial shows how to configure a Debian Squeeze system to have package updates installed automatically without user interaction. In addition to that I will show you what needs to be done to have the system email you about available updates on a daily basis.

Desura Linux Client development is on going on a really fast rate. In last couple of posts we reported initial working screenshots of Desura Linux client but now more of these have been posted by lead developer Keith Poole. Desura Linux client can be distributed as a small binary file at initial release, which may be compressed, or distributed in some sort of signed package (yet to be decided). Users can place this binary anywhere on their system that have write permissions, and when run, it will build the Desura folder around itself and download any remaining components respecting Linux FSH. Also all the games can be installed into a 'games' folder under the Desura folder to simplify installations, updates, patches, user configs etc.

lshw-gtk is a graphical user interface for lshw. It can display very detailed information for your computer's hardware configuration: processor, memory, graphics cards, devices connected to USB ports and so on.

The KDE team has proudly announced a few minutes ago, July 27th, the final and stable version for the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.7 environment.

Simon went to buy a laptop from a big shop. He has sent in this shocking report from the front-line. It probably serves me right. Recently, my brother had a pressing need for a brand new laptop, which for reasons I won’t bore you with, I pretty much ended up having to get there and then. Thus, I was out of options: I had to go to a large store that I don’t like, and try to buy a unit in the quickest possible time. My mission was to avoid eye contact with the sales assistant until the last possible minute, and to give monosyllabic answers to any questions I didn’t like the sound of.

I just had to go there. I had to go there and do something stupid… Let me tell you what happened. The tendency to learn something new is very high and very powerful, but as we all know you cannot learn without making mistakes. If somebody ever claims that he did something perfectly on the first try, you should instantly know that the person you are talking to did not learn a thing.

"As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software," Gates wrote in an infamous open letter. "Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?

SanDisk announced a 2.5-inch SSD (solid state drive) aimed at the retail market, with capacities ranging from 60GB to 240GB. Meanwhile, Intel reported a rare problem with its similar SSD320 devices, some of which have been erroneously claiming they have only 8MB of capacity....