GNU/Linux describes various unix-like operating systems running on the Linux Kernel. Distributions are free and open source, renowned for stability and are used for desktops, servers, mobile phones, cash machines and a lot more. 89% of the worlds top 500 supercomputers share consists of Linux variants.
As a Linux user browsing the web you probably have respect and understanding for the importance of both cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. This is a look at native and Wine Linux support for the major browsers out there and how to test with them.
If you’re in the unfortunate scenario where you have to support IE6 then here’s a quick guide to installing Internet Explorer 6 on wine for Linux using winetricks (and not IEs4Linux).
How to use, view and edit websites and MySQL from a Windows NTFS installation of XAMPP in Ubuntu Linux.
The latest installment of GNOME (that comes with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) doesn’t have the pencil icon to toggle the location bar mode. Here’s three different ways to work around that by using shortcuts or making permanent changes to Nautilus.
How to change the cursor theme back to default after installing Kubuntu from Ubuntu.
The flexibility of the Nautilus file manager on GNOME allows you to easily access remote filesystems via FTP as if it was mounted as a local directory. Firing up gEdit got me thinking “Can I use gEdit’s file browser to edit remote files?”. Yes you can and in theory you should be able to open and edit any remote files with any application on Linux.
After setting the Windows hard drive as the primary boot device I set out to not only read the Linux filesystem (ext3) with all my work but to also continue it in Apache under Windows which, to my surprise, was actually very easy. By the end of this reference you should be able to use your Linux filesystem within Windows and use Apache to read and use the website related content off your Linux filesystem.
chmod (short for change mode) is a shell command for Linux (and other Unix-like systems) for changing file and directory permissions. With Linux being a popular server solution it is an important command to learn and understand especially for the likes of website development on Linux based HTTP servers.
As Ubuntu’s NetworkManager applet (nm-applet) has no option to change the driver you’re required to do it manually, which this reference will demonstrate. As an example we’ll be changing the default driver (rtl8180 for me) to use ndiswrapper.
