Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, the team will be “investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support [...]

Novell this week announced the availability of Moonlight 2, essentially an open-source Linux version of Microsoft’s Silverlight platform. In addition, Microsoft and Novell said they plan on expanding their collaboration on Moonlight to include support for Moonlight implementations of Silverlight versions 3 and 4.. The companies say Moonlight 2 is interoperable with Microsoft Silverlight 2 [...]

Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical is changing top management in an effort to become more operationally disciplined, with founder Mark Shuttleworth passing the chief executive job to Chief Operations Officer Jane Silber by March 1. Shuttleworth will continue working at the company, focusing on the company’s desktop Linux product, its cloud-computing efforts, and meetings with partners [...]

Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software especially under the GNU General Public License and other free software licenses. The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, which uses the Linux kernel and GNU OS tools,  is a popular and influential Linux distribution.  It is distributed with access [...]

The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification is an open standard for unified operating system-centric device configuration and power management. ACPI, first released in December 1996, defines platform-independent interfaces for hardware discovery, configuration, power management and monitoring. The specification is central to Operating System-directed configuration and Power Management (OSPM); a term used to describe [...]

For changing directory / to /etc [root@pc1 /]# cd /etc One step back /etc to / [root@pc1 etc]# cd .. Go to previous working directory [root@pc1 /]# cd – Go to current login user home directory [root@pc1 etc]# cd ~ Show the contents of /etc in single color [root@pc1 ~]#  dir  /etc Show the contents [...]

/bin          All commands which are used by normal users /etc          System conf files /var          Server data logs Mail proxy cache /dev         All devices name stored in /dev /sbin        All commands which are used by supper user /boot        Linux kernel ( vmlinuz , initrd ) Grub directory /usr          All gui tools installed in /usr /proc       System [...]

Overview of the  Linux file system Linux Basic Commands

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and that manufacturers of consumer-facing hardware allow [...]