Linux is not “laptop ready” PROBLEM WITH LINUX ON A LAPTOP : NO WiFi! wifi does not work on my laptop Most laptops come with Realtek Wifi – They don’t work in Linux! The depressing Linux advice is: ONLY get a laptop with an Intel board for WiFi or be restricted to a cable connection. Intel is the only one that shares...
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Unix-Linux vs. Windows networking, communications, the internet
Networking support in Linux-Unix is superior to most other operating systems. Linux is without doubt the most secure kernel out there, making Linux based operating systems secure and suitable for servers. Note: Linux is Unix with added support for pc hardware. Of the top twenty-five websites in the world by Alexa’s count, only two aren’t running Linux. Those two, live.com and bing.com, both belong...
How to create bootable USB’s in Fedora and boot them
how to create and use bootable USB flash chips. I have read to use the “disks” utility but I would always get an error when trying to boot the chip after creating it that way. “The best tool to create a Fedora USB stick is the Fedora Media Writer utility, which was formerly known as LiveUSB Creator.” dnf install mediawriter make sure your USB...
Space bar not working in Fedora, keyboard hesitating
I just installed Fedora 24 on a new pc (Alienware) and with installing additional software and enhancing settings, I unexpectedly discovered that the space bar was no longer working. With checking, I discovered that the shift-spacebar did work, but that was all. I put the keyboard on another computer where it worked just fine. Then I knew that the problem was in the computer....
GeForce vs. Radeon Graphics cards on Fedora 28-33
Updated 2021-02-22 NVIDIA GeForce GTX vs. AMD Radeon graphics cards. Fedora 28 and beyond it appears that Fedora 28 and beyond DOES support NVIDIA cards Install an NVIDIA GPU on almost any machine use Fedora 28’s brand-new third-party repositories This process works for any UEFI-enabled computer, and any modern (UEFI-enabled) NVIDIA GPU. It may be enough if the maximum power output of the...
How to easily Set Up your Fedora-Linux Home Network
updated 2019-11-20 How To copy and share files between Fedora computers and share a printer How to set up a home network on Fedora (or Ubuntu) with a router. (At the begining of this article, I was still using Fedora 11, 13, and 14 on different pc’s and had live copies of Ubuntu 8.4, 9.4, 9.10, and 10.10 that I had looked at). Since...
Dual desktop computer monitors in Fedora 17+…F22+…
updated 07-20-2016 How to set up dual or triple desktop computer monitors in Fedora 17+ Go to “System Settings” >> Display . . . to see-arrange your monitors. My laptop handled 2 monitors with only a hassle of being only able to put the external monitor on the right side and still keep the internal, laptop, monitor established as the “primary” monitor. On a...
How To automate Linux backups to a remote pc
updated 2018-05-03 passwordless ssh: automated Linux shell backups to another computer ssh remote login without a password Accessing a remote site through ssh without a password How to do unattended backups to a remote linux computer Quite often, you want a shell script to ssh into a remote server (your web site?) unattended and do a (regularly scheduled, cron job?) backup, for instance. SSH...
linux shell command line prompt, history, and editing
updated 2016-09-20 How to Retrieve and Edit Commands in Linux All this information assumes the default “bash” shell. If hitting the up arrow does not retrieve the previous command, or the command “history” does not get a list of your previous commands, then you do not have the Bash shell. And, if ctrl-p is the only way to get your previous command, then you...
Faster Booting: from SysVInit to systemd
* Systemd * Systemd is a new, faster, system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional...
How to switch to Gnome 3, Cinnamon
updated 2016-09-20 How to make Gnome 3 look and work almost like Gnome 2: Cinnamon dnf install @cinnamon-desktop-environment note: MATE was built on gnome-2 CINNAMON was built on gnome-3 Once installed, on the next login, notice and click on the little gear icon next to the Sign In button. A drop-down list will show up providing the potion to use Cinnamon [ or Cinnamon...
How to install and remove FONTS in Linux; UTF-8
updated 2018-09-15 Just like Windoze, Fedora (and Ubuntu) throws in a 100 fonts you don’t want and will never use. All, system-wide, fonts in Fedora, Linux, are in /usr/share/fonts/ for example /usr/share/fonts/google* /usr/share/fonts/kacst/ /usr/share/fonts/smc/ /usr/share/fonts/stix/ How to remove many extra Linux fonts fedora 27-28 : The biggest block of unwanted fonts is “Noto Sans …” It is a GOOGLE collection of fonts for many...
sequential hard disk access speed vs. solid state drives
Important SSD notes: In Linux, the operating system keeps both HDD’s and SSD’s from becoming fragmented. Unix/Linux “uses a journal instead of writing directly to the disk in sequence. … It will then write the journaled file onto memory and then onto the true disk blocks, but in linear mode.” In Windows, also, “Solid State Drives DO NOT require defragmentation. It may even decrease...
bash sub-stringing to put creation dates on .jpg and other files
to rename all my camera photos I need some string functions, to put the creation date on all the jpg files I need … jhead. Linux does not keep the creation date; it keeps the modified date. The date on the file changes as soon as you copy or edit it, like with a photo editor. if you have not modified the image so...
ILLEGAL CHARACTERS in Filenames
There are a lot of existing Unix/Linux shell scripts that presume there are no space characters in filenames, including the default setting of the Bourne shell “IFS” variable. Each pathname component is separated by “/” therefore, filenames cannot contain “/”. Neither filenames nor pathnames can contain the ASCII NUL character (\0), because that is the...