Ubuntu Reference/Cheat Sheet
Terminator is a program that allows users to set up flexible arrange of GNOME terminals. It is aimed at those who normally arrange lots of terminals near each other, but don’t want to use a frame based
window manager
If you are using hardy use the following command to install
# sudo apt-get install terminator
Very good presentation by Dr. Radia Perlman. The talk discusses spannig tree protocol and new work being done in IETF known as TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links), which combines the advantages of bridges (layer 2 forwarding devices) and routers (layer 3 forwarding devices).
This video screencast provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 1.0.5 on a Ubuntu Server 10.7 system. With VMware Server lets you host multiple operating systems and multiple applications under one host operating system.
The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE, aka Pre-Execution Environment, or 'pixie') is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of available data storage devices (like hard disks, CD Drives) or installed operating systems.
This method of installing OS can be very usefull when you want to deploy several os at ones or your machine does not support booting from a USB floppy or CD-ROM drive.
Packages requirements:
1. tftpd-hpa
2. dhcp3-server
Virtual hosts are used to run more than one web site on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be "IP-based", meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or "name-based", meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address. The fact that they are running on the same physical server is not apparent to the end user. In this example I will demonstrate name-based virtual hosting.
LAMP is an acronym taken from the initial letters of a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers.
The original expansion is as follows:
•Linux, referring to the operating system, Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system.;
•Apache, Apache is HTTP Server is a free software/open source web server, the most popular in use. ;
•MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
We have all run into cases where Windows refuses to load for one reason or another. The problem may be a hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux can be used to help recover data that otherwise might be lost.
Creating the Image:
we use dd command to image the disk or partition. dd is a common UNIX program whose primary purpose is the low-levellow-level copying and conversion of raw data.
The basic command to use is:
bash# dd if=[device] of=[imagename]conv=noerror
1. Set up a virtual machine of your choice. Click on VM in the top menu of the VMware Server console and select Install VMware Tools.
2. First install some needed pakages:
# apt-get install autoconf automake binutils cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) make psmisc
3. Next copy the VMware Tools from the mounted iso to the temporary folder:
# cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz /tmp/
4. Afterwards switch to the temporary folder and unpack the VMware Tools:
This tutorial will show you how to install Vmware Workstation 6 on ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon system.