By default most of the Linux systems will not support any of the mention formates. In order to play these files in Linux we require to install mplayer or vlc. My favourite one is VLC(VideoLAN Client). With which you can play most of the media files and even we can play streaming video and audio(…)
Basics
Find Memory Or RAM And Swap Usage In Linux
RAM plays an important role in the performance of a system. So we should monitor this memory usage to troubleshoot system. free is the basic command to get details of RAM and swap usage. #freeExample :# free total used free shared buffers cachedMem: 3059872 2842016 217856 0 33936 2012684-/+ buffers/cache: 795396 2264476Swap: 2000052 67672 1932380(…)
How To See Memory(RAM) Used By An Application Or Service?
Some times its required for us to know what is the RAM used by an application. Suppose in your machine Apache service or Mysql service is consuming up all your RAM. So how to check it? Is there any direct command to do this? The answer to this is no. We have to use two(…)
How To See What Processes Are Running On Your System?
Q. I know the subject is not quite what I want to know, but there is a command to list running processes and I can’t remember what it is? There are many commands to accomplish this. Here is the list. To see all the process running on a system#ps -AExample output : PID TTY TIME(…)
Notes For Vi Editor
VI editor is the default file editor in most of the Linux/Nix machines. It is having great capabilities to edit a file with in few key strokes. Lets start with some general information and then move on to some good things what vi editor can do for you while editing a file. 1. Vi stands(…)
All About info, man, whatis, whereis, –help Commands
Do you know what dmidecode command will do? Ans : Are you going to search in google about dmidecode? No need to search boss. No need to go any where. Linux provied many help tools to make you familiar with any command. This post is all about these commands/options and they are as follows. 1.info command 2.(…)
File Types In Linux Explained in detail.
File types in Linux Explained “How many types of files are there in Linux/Unix and what are they?” This is a common question to every person who starts learning Linux. Why is it important to know file types? Ans : This is because Linux will consider every thing as file. So when ever you start(…)
Right Click To Open A Document
How to open a document/spreed sheet or any office document on right clicking with mouse on a desktop or in a folder in Linux(Ubuntu/Redhat)?Ans : By default there is no option to open a document/spreed sheet on right clicking on a desktop or in a folder, This is default option in Window$. If you are(…)
How To Change The Background Of A Terminal?
These days I am tweeking around Ubuntu desktop, one tweek I did today. How to change the background of a terminial?The change really rocked my desktop look. Just have a look at my terminal after I have changed the background of it. So you people want to try?Ans : Just do as follows. have good(…)
How To Change The Default Editor In Ubuntu
In most of the Linux distribution the defalut editor is set to “VI” and its very much popular editor too. But the strange in Ubuntu the default editor is “nano”. But most of the people are well in using vi editor. Here in this post I am going to show how to change the default(…)