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Archive for September, 2011

Vim is an enhanced version of the ever popular command line text editor vi. If you master the use of Vim text editor, it can be a very powerful tool in your hands, and allow you to do amazing text editing feats with just a few taps on your keyboard.

In 2007, this site had conducted a poll, and over 50% of the respondents said their favorite text editor is Vi.

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Learn Linux Commands The Easy Way

Sep-24-2011 By admin

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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9 Cool SSH Tricks You May Not Know

Sep-19-2011 By admin

If you are running a website, even if it is a blog, chances are, you might have used SSH at least once. SSH stands for Secure SHell. When you use SSH, the communication and data transfer between the local machine and the remote machine occurs in a secure encrypted tunnel. So no one will be able to snoop on your data.
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Linus Torvalds has moved the entire Linux kernel to Github. This comes in the wake of Kernel.org site (The original home of Linux kernel) getting hacked.
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