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Best Compression, Archiving and zipping techniques in LINUX!

20
Sep
posted by TuxCrux Admin               filed under Basics
Various file formats

Compression , archiving , zipping and encoding are some of the keywords which you might have listen when you deal with huge amount of data, or you deal with systematic data and where data storage is critical for example your organizational data.
Linux ensures best archiving, zipping and security methods for data by supporting never ending data storage packages. I have been able to concise the availability and I am today presenting the some of the most important techniques that is followed or must be followed in Linux terminals.

  • tar:

One of the most common technique to archive data in Linux is tar (Tape Archive) and a tape archived file is called tarball.

tar -c foo

Creates tar

tar -x foo

tar -xvf firefox.tar

This will untar the tarball. Note c switch creates a archive and x extracts the archive, v is for verbose that means output the name of each file in extraction.
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Elinks- Your very own full text browser!

14
Aug
posted by TuxCrux Admin               filed under Softwares

ELinks is an advanced and facility rich text mode web-browser. ELinks is highly customizable and can be enriched using various script support like Lua or Guile. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms. It has a variety of support for many platforms of-course no problem with Linux distros.


Check the wide support for scripts as below:

Dependency Description
Lua or Guile Makes it possible to write scripting plugins.
zlib 1.2.0.2 or later For handling gzip or deflate compressed documents both locally and sent from server.
bzip2 Likewise, for bzip2 compressed documents.
LZMA Utils Likewise, for LZMA compressed documents. Version 4.32.5 should work. XZ Utils does not work.
OpenSSL or GNU TLS For handling secure HTTP browsing.
pkg-config Needed for locating some libraries (at least GNU TLS and TRE)
GPM General Purpose Mouse for mouse support.
expat XML Parser Toolkit needed for XBEL support.
TRE For regexp searching. Version 0.7.5 works.
libsmbclient Library needed for smb:// protocol support.
rxvt-unicode For terminal emulator which supports 88 colors.
xterm with 256 colors
libidn For internationalized domain names.
SpiderMonkey Mozilla’s JavaScript engine for getting JavaScript/ECMAScript support in ELinks.

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‘vi’ Editor for noobs, A beginner’s guide.

10
Aug
posted by TuxCrux Admin               filed under Basics

‘vi‘ is abbreviation for the visual.
gvimvisual is command for another editor(line editor) in UNIX that is Extended(EX).
vi Editor is the spinal cord of Linux terminal, it has been inside it thriving for years.
Now it comes with name of VIM where IM stands for improved.
It is cross platform and is found on every Linux distro.
If you have freshly installed Linux and now want your feet get wet in it, its time to master terminal because this is something which will give you ease with any Linux platform.
VI editor is not just another text editor, it has its own importance in the hearts of shell scriptors. If used with full capabilities, it is none less than IDE(Integrated development environment) or in fact is an IDE.
It is licensed under GNU and open source backing is responsible for its continuing growth. vi editor is text editor but graphical avatar gVim is also available.

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Setting up Network connection for file sharing on Linux.

8
Aug
posted by TuxCrux Admin               filed under Basics, Tweaking
File sharing has been one of the primary task on computer networks, whether it is on LAN, WAN or even home network(between Desktop an Laptop or any other configs). Network setting on Linux is nightmare for many Linux noobs.
This tutorial is based on Linux Mint(One of the most user friendly OS of Linux). So network settings would be same or similar on other Gnome desktops like Ubuntu and other debian based releases.
Setting up a file sharing network is not the most difficult task on earth.
Go to network connections or just right click on network icon flashing on the corners. Almost all Linux distros have these tiny buttons for displaying network status.
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38 Acronyms/Abbreviations/Jargon every Linux user must know

6
Aug
posted by TuxCrux Admin               filed under Basics

Here I am listing some of the most common and ubiquitous  Acronyms/Abbreviations/Jargon of Linux. I hope you all will appreciate the effort. If any of you is very very eager to share any other stuff except these, please share it with us.

01. APT- Advanced Package Tool

02. BSD – Berkeley Software Distribution

03. bash – Bourne again shell

04. cc - C compiler

05. csh – C shell

06. FOSS - Free and Open Source Software

07. GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program

08. GNU - GNU is Not UNIX

09. GNOME – Gnu Network Object Modeling Environment

10. GTK - GIMP Toolkit

11. GPL – GNU General Public License

12. grep - Global regular expression print

13. GCC - GNU C Compiler

14. Grub- Grand Unified Bootloader

15. ksh – Korn shell

17. KDE – K Desktop Environment

18. LILO - Linux Loader

19. LINUX – Linus Torvald’s UNIX  ;Linux Is Not Unix; Linus’s MINIX

20. LUG – Linux users group

21. LFS - Linux From Scratch

22. lex - Lexical analyser

23. MD5 – Message digest 5

24. man - Manual

25. POSIX – Portable operating system interface

26. pwd – Print working directory

27. RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer

28. RPM – Red Hat package manager

29. sed - Stream editor

30. SUSE – Software- und System-Entwicklung(Software and system development)

31. tar – Tape archive

32. telnet - Terminal over network

33. UNIX - UNIpleX information and computer services

34. VimVi - Improved

35. WINE - WINE is not an emulator

36. X – X Window System

37. YaST - Yet another Setup Tool

38. yacc – Yet another compiler compiler

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