How many times have you come across a .tar, .tgz, or .bz2 file in Linux and had no idea what to do with it? Or what it was? Most users of computers know what the .zip file is. Simple, it’s a compressed file. And to uncompress you generally double click it or right click and [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

There are a number of reasons you would need to an archive. You might need to create backup archives of files, or you might want to be able to store project files together. Whatever your reason, the GNOME File Roller tool makes creating archives simple. File Roller is the Winzip of Linux. Of course you [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Normally you will hear me professing to always install using your Linux distributions’ package management system. This is true for most cases. There is one case, however, that defies that philosophy: Installing Firefox. I have, on many occasions, installed Firefox using the distributions package management system only to have issue with either plugins or updates. [...]

Categories: Advice, Browsing, Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I administer a lot of web sites. And all of these web sites need backup solutions. Since most of those web sites use LAMP servers it only made sense to set up a backup system using the available, included open source tools. It didn’t take long to create a solid backup system and, with the [...]

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