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nixCraft offers Linux tips, hacks, news, tutorials, guides and ideas in blog format. The main aim is to document the hurdles that most of us face as UNIX/Linux/BSD sys admin in our day today life.

You might not be ready to accept Linux as your desktop yet, but you can still use it to save your Windows PC-whether you need to reset passwords, recover deleted files, or scan for viruses, here's how to do it.

Find & Open Recently Downloaded Files In Ubuntu Linux With Gnome Activity Journal

* Create new PDF or edit existing ones. * Add and/or edit bookmarks in PDF files. * Fast and simple PDF forms fill out. * Changing font attributes (size, family, color etc). * Encrypt and/or protect PDF files using 128 bit encryption. * Convert XPS files into PDF. * JavaScript support. * Dynamic XFA form support. * Validation Forms and Calculate Values. * Add PDF controls (like buttons, checkboxes, lists, etc.) into your PDFs. * Import/export PDF pages into common graphical formats including BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIFF. * Signing PDF documents with digital signature, signatures creation and validation. * Free PDF Editor on Linux ( for non-commercial use)

* Create new PDF or edit existing ones. * Add and/or edit bookmarks in PDF files. * Fast and simple PDF forms fill out. * Changing font attributes (size, family, color etc). * Encrypt and/or protect PDF files using 128 bit encryption. * Convert XPS files into PDF. * JavaScript support. * Dynamic XFA form support. * Validation Forms and Calculate Values. * Add PDF controls (like buttons, checkboxes, lists, etc.) into your PDFs. * Import/export PDF pages into common graphical formats including BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIFF. * Signing PDF documents with digital signature, signatures creation and validation. * Free PDF Editor on Linux ( for non-commercial use)

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This tutorial explains how to install and configure Proftpd Server on CentOS 6.2, Fedora Linux and RHEL clones. ProFTPdProFTPd is one of the most popular, secure and reliable FTP server for the Linux operating system. Proftpd uses a single configuration file and it's very simple to set up. Its con

SolusOS is a Linux operating system based on the hugely popular Debian Linux distribution. It's Gnome-oriented.

Linux Dedicated Server Hosting is the best type of web hosting and certainly has some advantages over its counter, Windows Dedicated servers. Why can i say this? Just continue to read this review.

Screencast Review style Tutorial on how to install and use Linux Mint 9 LXDE Isadora RC 32bit Open Source Operating System inside Sun VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Kubuntu as the host on my AMD Phenom II x4 PC.

Screencast style Review demo and how to install and use Tutorial for Kubuntu Linux 10.10 Alpha 1 Maverick Meerkat 64bit with KDE 4.5 Beta 1. Demonstration created in Kubuntu 9.10 64bit with KDE 4.4.2 and Oracle VirtualBox, recordmydesktop, and kdenlive.

Screencast style Review of Ylmf OS 3.0 32bit which is a Linux that looks like Windows XP theme which is based on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I am demonstrating the Open Source Operating System running inside Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 10.10 as the host.

Live Action Video and Screencast style Review Demonstration Tutorial about DropBox software which lets your Sync Files easy on any Operating System platform. I show it working on my Ubuntu Linux 10.10 Maverick Meerkat 64bit and Windows XP 32bit on my ASUS EeePC Netbook and on my LG Android smart...

Are you using Linux platform to download Bittorrent file? If the answer is "Yes", you shall try to use qBittorrent to be your Bittorrent client that is a lightweight Bittorrent client for Linux, and easy to use.

Howto: Linux NFSv4 distributed file system access tutorial

The functions, code excerpts and comments discussed below here are from mm/oom_kill.c unless otherwise noted. It is the job of the linux 'oom killer' to sacrifice one or more processes in order to free up memory for the system when all else fails. It will also kill any process sharing the same mm_struct as the selected process, for obvious reasons. Any particular process leader may be immunized against the oom killer if the value of its /proc//oomadj is set to the constant OOM_DISABLE (currently defined as -17). The function which does the actual scoring of a process in the effort to find the best candidate for elimination is called badness(), which results from the following call chain: _alloc_pages -> out_of_memory() -> select_bad_process() -> badness() The comments to badness() pretty well speak for themselves:

Excellent tutorial on mastering advanced linux commands