At certain times while using Gentoo you are going to have to perform a large emerge, for example when you do an update world. It can be challenging to keep track of the status of this emerge with all the output flying by on the screen. It can also become a problem if you want [...]

The ability to remotely SSH into a machine running an Ubuntu LiveCD can come in handy in many situations. The LiveCD supports a large variety of hardware and can be used to troubleshoot system problems on a machine where you have limited or no access. A user with limited skills can easily setup remote access [...]

The process environment consists of all the individual environment variables which are passed on to the program by the shell when the program is launched. This environment can be read and changed by the program during its execution, and can affect how a program is linked or how it executes. For all these reasons it [...]

There are 2 files available on a Linux system which will give a user a wealth of information about a system. These files, /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo are written by the Linux kernel and tell you important details about your cpu and memory.
Both files are read-only and can be viewed with any text editor. [...]

Use the Keyboard Shortcuts tool in GNOME to customize the default keyboard shortcuts for your system. If you have a laptop that has special media buttons you can configure them here as well. In some distributions such as Ubuntu these media buttons may be automatically configured but you may still need to fine tune them [...]

SSH allows secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections between two hosts. These connections include terminal sessions, file transfers, TCP port forwarding, as well as X window forwarding which I will be covering here. X forwarding is a form of tunneling that allows you to run a GUI application on a remote machine but let you [...]