Linux

Some people do not like having a separate /home partition for Linux, though it is better for recovery purposes. For the purposes of the question, it is assumed that you do not want a separate partition for your /home directory.

The best performance is provided by placing a Linux swap partition first on the drive. This should be at least double the amount of RAM you have installed, but no larger than 1 GB. You will have to move the XP partition to the end of the drive after you have installed it.

The partition after the swap partition should be a Linux partition. I personally prefer ReiserFS, but ext3 is slightly more popular, mostly due to the larger number of error recovery tools.

The last partition should be the Windows XP partition.

Depends on where exactly you are seeing the letter "s" - could mean a setuid or setgid program.

There isn't one as all are equally capable., although certain ones are geared towards a specific purpose than the other.

You can if you really want to! But, most Linux software is already compiled and ready to be downloaded and installed. Note that Linux is the kernel from which many distributions (distos) branch out - Ubuntu, Linux Mint are but two examples.

There's actually no such thing as a ".dat" file. The .dat extension is a generic one used for "data." It does not have any specific format and thus there is no tool that can open all, or even a majority, of these files.

AuctionSniper is web-based, and therefore operating system-independent.

Debian 5.0 (Lenny) debuted with the 2.6.26 kernel.

Command line (open terminal, type this in):

su -c yum install tuxpaint

sudo apt-get install tuxpaint

emerge tuxpaint

There are several different parameters one can use for measuring various statistics about paging and swapping. -S, -W, and -B are all related and display slightly different statistics.

tune2fs is used to adjust characterisitics of an ext2/3/4 partition, such as number of mount times before forced fsck, change the mount times counter, and set kernel responeses to errors.

Character devices.

Yes, although no modern distributions directly support system installs from them. You can still use a floppy disk to install Linux from a PXE boot server, from a CD that is incapable of booting from the BIOS, or from a USB Flash drive.

Fedora and openSUSE are the open-community spin-offs of privately managed and developed for-profit GNU/Linux distributions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Edition Linux.

One can find information on a Linux mail server on the official Linux website page. The page offers frequently asked questions and general information about the Linux program and service.

Shell is a program which allows the user to access the computer system. Shell is an interface between the user and computer system.

Kernel is the only way through which the programs (all programs including shell) can access the hardware. Its a layer between the appliation programs and hardware. It is the core of most of the operating systems and manages everything including the communication between the hardware and software.

KERNEL is the core part of operating system. It contain modules like device modules and other modules etc. Kernel is written in C language. Basically kernel is mediator between hardware and Operating System. But SHELL is an interface between users and operating system. Both are mediator but work is totally different.

Let we have an example of "eject" command in Linux operating system:

User give a command to Shell through input device like keyboard and see that command on video Device like monitor, but in actual concept is user give a command to shell, then this shell transfer that command to kernel.when kernel have module of that command then it transfer to hardware like CDROM. After that hardware behave as the module in kernel and then kernel again transfer the output to Shell. And finally shell transfer that output to user.

Hardware <---> Kernel <---> Shell <---> User

SU allows users to use programs with the security privileges of the superuser. This gives the user a huge amount of configurability with windows, mac and linux.

NTFS read support has been in the kernel since 2.2. 2.6.0 supports read / write operations.

You have to use so called SMB server (usually it's included in each Linux installation) which allows to communicate Linux with windows.

Be sure to read the online instructions first! It is important that you understand what would delete the Windows OS, when to partition manually.

You may buy the CD or download the ISO file. If possible, try a "live" version to play with; installation is optional. There are also versions of Linux that can be installed as a Windows program, then removed just as easily.

You need to burn the ISO image to a CD. If you are using Windows, try a freeware program called "ImgBurn." Find the burn speed option and select x4 or slower! This may make the CD more durable and readable. You cannot just drag and drop it; this would leave a copy of the ISO file on the CD instead of writing (burning) the decompressed image (filesystem).

After you do this, just reboot your computer with the disc in the drive. Most computer will boot directly to the CD. If it continues into Windows, you'll need to enter your BIOS and change the boot order, CD first.

Yes.

If you want to determine whether a year is a leap year. Use the cal command for the month of February. So to check 2012, for example, do:

cal 2 2012

and see if it prints 28 or 29 days.