MooLux Live USB Linux

MooLux is a Linux based on Slackware which can be run directly from your USB drive.MooLux 5.4 contains applications for Internet browsing, mail, chat, multimedia, office, games as well as for programming in C, Perl and Python.

HighLights :

kernel 2.6.27.7
KDE-3.5.10
Firefox-3.0.11
Thunderbird-2.0.0.22
Pidgin-2.5.8
Media Player-0.8.8 with Full Codecs
KDEBluetooth-1.0-Beta
gimp-2.4.6

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Requirements :
512MB of RAM, 1GB …

Shell Script for memory alert

Shell script which tell about low memory status message with xwindow dailog box.
#!/bin/sh
#
#author : admin@smartproteam.com
#copy rights@smartproteam 2009
#script to low ram alert
tolmem=$(free -m| grep Mem | awk ‘{print $4}’)
expmem=300
if [ $tolmem -lt $expmem ]
then
xmessage “Physical mem is low”
fi
output

Assigning static ip using terminal or shell on linux

to assign static ip manually using terminal or shell.first you need killall dhclient.
run below command
$killall dhclient
then run below step (here i am using my network example)
$ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0
above step is used for assigning the ip
now you need to add default gateway,first you need check your gateway …

Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 Released and Available for download

Yellow dog linux is a open-source operating system for Power Architecture computers.Yellow Dog Linux is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS core.
High Lights:

Linux Kernel 2.6.29 for 64bit & 2.6.27 for 32bit
USB boot support
IMB Cell SDK to version 3.1.0.1
Gnash to version 0.8.4

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what is /dev/null

/dev/null or the null device is a special file that discards all data written to it
The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process. It’s equivalent to “don’t bother about the results “.
ex:
ls -l *.txt > name.txt 2>/dev/null