Learn Linux Commands The Easy Way

There are hundreds of command line tools in Linux. For a person who has just started using Linux, learning the various commands could at times, be a chore. But not any more, if you see what this website has achieved.

Playterm is a site which hosts videos of commands / tasks executed in the Linux terminal.

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A Cheat Sheet That Teaches Linux Commands To Beginners

I like cheat sheets. They give a birds eye view of the whole picture. Cheat sheets are also massive time savers in that, you don't have to pour over reams of content to find what you want.
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Linux Ate My RAM - Help!

Help! Linux ate my Memory. Did it indeed?
I was curious where my memory had gone because, when I fired up a terminal and typed the command -

$ free -m

I got the following output.

total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           882        843         38          0         86        424
-/+ buffers/cache:        332        549
Swap:            0          0          0

From a total of 882 MB, 843 MB has been used leaving only a measly 38 MB free for my use. How is that possible ?

Well, I stumbled upon an interesting website which explains in detail just this conundrum.

The website is (and you might have guessed it right!) linuxatemyram.com. And after reading through the website, I figured out that the whole thing is just a play of words. What you consider free is indeed free, but Linux chooses to call it 'used' because this memory is both used for something and at same time available for applications. Since your and Linux's terminology differs, you think you are low on RAM when you're not.Get it ?

Convert MS Word Files to Other formats using Abiword

Abiword is a word processor which can be used as an alternative to popular commercial counterparts. It comes installed by default on most Linux distributions.

Did you know that you can convert from one file type to another in the command line using Abiword ? This is how it is done. Read more »