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OneAndOneIs2 has an article that gives some reasons on why ‘Linux is Not Windows’.

Sometimes burning an ISO file to a CD-ROM just to access its contents is overkill, but there is another way.

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The IBM developerWorks website is filled with many interesting articles. Tonight’s pick is ‘Inside the Linux boot process’. This article guides you from the initial power on through to the user-space being available. However if you really want to get down and dirty with the boot process, then I would suggest having a go at Linux From Scratch.

Need a simple way to test the bandwidth between two hosts that you have access to? If so, then just drop Iperf onto both machines. Launch one instance as the server

iperf -s

and the other as the client

iperf -c <Server IP>

then after 10 seconds you’ll have your result.
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The Unix Toolbox lists a lot of useful Unix/Linux/BSD commands. It covers commands for a wide range of operations, i.e. processes, file system, networking, CVS, databases, etc.. Also it covers the very basics of scripting and programming.

If you’re interested in studying towards LPIC certification, then IBM has a number of tutorials freely available that cover the four exams that make up LPIC-1 and LPIC-2.

This classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usenet in 1986.

Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed “rm -rf ~/*” and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the lines of “lend me a fiver ’til Thursday, or I hit return”? Undoubtedly the person in question would not have had the nerve to inflict such a trauma upon you, and was doing it in jest. So you’ve probably never experienced the worst of such disasters….

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I first came across this dialogue several years ago, which I believe was originally written by Eric S. Raymond in 1993.

Speak, O Guru: How can I become a Unix Wizard?

O, Nobly Born: know that the Way to Wizardhood is long, and winding, and
Fraught with Risks. Thou must Attune thyself with the Source, attaining the
arcane Knowledge and Conversation of the System Libraries and Internals. Yea;
and such an all-consuming Time and Energy Sink is this as to greatly Imperil
thy Grade Point Average (if one thou hast), not to mention thy Sex Life (if one
thou hast). But persevere, oh Larval One; rewards beyond the Dreams of Lusers
await thee!

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The wiki at Steve Baker’s site contains a fairly comprehensive history of the Linux mascot.

Linus, “Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”

FLOSS Weekly is a great podcast about Open Source Software. Each episode consists of an interview with a key member of the development team for a popular Open Source project. There have been 26 episodes so far, covering projects such as SQLite, POV-Ray, PostgreSQL, Samba and Python.