rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system – contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze.

Debian is one of the earliest distributions that has existed for almost two decades and spawned a lot of other distributions. One of the distributions that spawned from Debian was Ubuntu

If Ubuntu is based on Testing or is a snapshot of Debian unstable then it should be fine not to actually provide any software other then what is in Ubuntu main and then just have people pull directly from Debian repositories.

Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here. APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here’s part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT.

This guide is for Sys Admins–or people who have a bit of Sys Admin skills. While there is a plethora of database backup products for MySQL that exist, this post is not about those products. We’ll use the built-in tools of MySQL for the backup process–it is in fact, a very simple process.

Developers from Debian and Ubuntu met and discussed ways to improve boot performance at Canonical’s London headquarters.

Instead of a review of what everyone already knows, this week I thought we’d take a look at how the newly released Xubuntu 9.04 compares to Debian Lenny with an Xfce desktop.

If you compiled and installed Apache on a Debian/Ubuntu Linux machine and want the Apache service run every time you reboot your machine this short tutorial is for you.

Recently, a reader told us that server maker Hewlett-Packard was no longer offering support for the Debian distribution of Linux on its servers. And according to HP’s website, that appeared to be the case. But as it turns out, HP is still supporting Debian (in a sense). What it doesn’t offer is formal support for [...]

Just the other day as I was squeezing my personal installation into the latest testing mold it struck my mind that if I could do this sort of work easily with aptitude then why not try and convert Ubuntu to Debian.

Debian or Ubuntu. This is the most widely used base on the desktop. Debian stock, Ubuntu and Linux Mint make up for a huge percentage of Linux Desktop usage. So this simply makes sense.

The reason for grub error 15 is very simple and so is the solution. The error gives you a message “Error 15: File not found!” simply because the file grub wants is not there. why? because grub is looking into a wrong device.

The H looks at the history of the popular Linux distro and the details of its relationship with Debian

I’m going to gather some well known info about these five popular Linux distribution to give you small preview of Linux operating systems. This is not a top five, rather five distributions I know about. This article should give you an overview on what to choose.

CMus is a very powerful audio player for the console with a ncurses-based interface, support for themes and highly configurable.

Debian is the basis for Ubuntu, but in some ways you can argue that Ubuntu has at this point, exceeded Debian. The great ‘failure’ of Debian is also it’s great strength. Debian hasn’t been able to put out releases in a regularly scheduled format in years — something developers will commonly attribute to not making [...]

As you notice in the headline i am switching my linux distro to Debian.I am currently about 2 year Ubuntu user.Ubuntu is a best solution for who is new to linux OS.

Like I wrote about last week the stable version of MySQLdb leaks memory and it will crash your long running processes. These leaks are fixed in the upcoming version – which is 1.2.3c1 currently.

I have been tending to run MySQL on my computers for the purpose of Rails app development. However, for my laptop especially, I prefer if MySQL is not started by default. I prefer to start it manually if it’s needed.

I run Ubuntu 8.04 “hardy” on my servers. Hardy is almost a year old now, and although it has up to date security fixes it no longer has the latest releases of software. This is fine for most purpose, but sometimes I want an updated version of some software and I’m willing to risk the [...]

Foremost and Scalpel are not interested in the underlying filesystem. They simply expect the data blocks of the files to reside sequentially in the image under investigation.

The Ubuntu kernel guys have released an “official” build of the 2.6.29 Linux Kernel which came out tonight. The .deb files work for both Ubuntu and Debian! (and outdated, stable and test releases like Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope.

Good news, mysql-server package doesn’t suck miserably on Debian 5.0 or Ubuntu 8.10, unlike previous versions did

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free turn-based strategy game licensed under the GPL. After over one year of constant development, a new stable version, 1.6, was released on March 22, 2009, featuring many graphics and gameplay improvements.

This short guide shows two methods of recording all your installed .deb packages in a text file that you can then use on another computer to install the same packages there. This is useful if you want to install the same set of packages on more than one computer.

I like Debian for its stability and predictability. And I like Ubuntu Netbook Remix for its suitability for small screen devices like the NC10. Running Ubuntu is in some sense like gambling – you never know if the next update will be a winner or a loser.

Linux uses runlevels to configure startup services. I prefer openSUSE way of doing this. Which is to start system in runlevel 5 with full graphical desktop support. If you need to start system without graphical desktop just switch it to runlevel 3.

One of the reasons Newcomers to Linux are scared off is the sheer number of choice-Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Arch, Debian, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS…And all the variants and amateur releases and specialties and on and on…

This article shows how you can watch your hard drive activity with iotop on Ubuntu 8.10 and Debian Lenny. iotop watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel (requires 2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads on the system. iotop displays columns for the I/O bandwidth [...]

In a recent forum post, user ‘rmk’ came up with a Perl script to expose the software inventory through the SNMP hrSWInstalled OID for Debian and Ubuntu machines. User ‘zarxcky’ wrote up detailed instructions for deploying the solution and getting it to work with Ubuntu.