Linux

Use the 'du' command in the directory you are interested in.

Its opens the file testing with the program vi.

Solaris is a specific version of Unix; the term 'Unix' refers to a classification, and several vendors provide a Unix-like environment. So, in a sense, Unix and Solaris are the same thing.

Have a look at WUBI (search Google) to install Ubuntu as a file, without making any changes to your Windows 8 hard-drive. To remove WUBI, simply use Windows utility to uninstall programs.

Or, create a separate partition on the Windows hard-drive and install Linux (or which ever distro you wish to use) on to the new partition. Remember to first backup important files onto an external storage device.

Or, download and burn a Linux distribution with an ISO extension onto a CD and use as a Live Disk. If you then intend to install Linux, you will be given the choice to either install as a dual-boot with Windows by installing Linux alongside Windows, or wiping Windows and letting Linux use all the hard-drive.

For this case it's better to use so called virtual machines, for instance, Virtualbox, vmware workstation, Microsoft virtual machine and so on.

You can also install Ubuntu Linux directly in windows using a program called Wubi.

Remember, it is also very easy to create a portable USB installation from the liveCD.

(Right now it takes my debian based Ubuntu 9.04 gnome desktop around 20 seconds to boot up from the USB - which takes the pain out of using computers when I'm out and about).

A delimiter is simply some character or other token that is there to show where one item in a list ends and another begins. Think about CSV, which is comma seperated values, aka comma DELIMITED values.

You can work archos 5 android on Linux through a tablet.

Linux has a modular kernel and an open API. Thus any unneeded components for a specific task can be removed, and new modules can be added, such as for new devices or protocols. Although not a feature per se, Linux is known as a stable and robust kernel, thus making it very reliable in most situations.

Recursively and securely copies files to a remote system where the user has Secure Shell (SSH) access.

The naming conventions required by Windows are unnecessary in Linux. While one can files an "extension", such as ".txt", they are unnecessary for selecting the proper application to open a file (they may still be needed internally by some programs like web servers, but this is not a limitation of Linux itself).

This, and some other questions on this forum appear to be cut and pasted from a test or quiz of some kind. In this one, since Linux isn't mentioned specifically, I'm assuming it is "assumed" to be referring to Linux.

The answer is the "info" command.

I wouldn't be surprised if the above question is a part of some copyrighted publication and should not have been published here. Though IANAL, I think it is doubtful this use would satisfy the legal requirements for "fair use" of copyrighted material. [JMH]

Linpus Linux is a Fedora-based operating system created by the Taiwanese firm Linpus Technologies Inc.[1] Linpus was designed specifically to fully support the Asian market, with full Unicode support for the Chinese and Japanese languages

After ten plus years of using open source (of which linux is but a small part) I claim to be above average, but always experimenting, always willing to learn more!

The df command displays drive capacities. The free command will show memory usage. The top command will show the system load of various processes.

decoy system is a grouping of soiled tablewares in soiled dish table according to size and shapes.

OpenOffice or LibreOffice can open PowerPoint presentations.

No. A L:iveCD will not even touch the hard drive unless you tell it to.

copy file filecopy

You don't "extract" a torrent file, as they contain little data to begin with, and none of it would be useful in another form. Their purpose is to instruct a BitTorrent client on what tracker to connect to to download a file, along with checksum information for the file. For Linux, the most common BitTorrent clients are Transmission, KTorrent, and Vuze.

There are calculator applications for the command line (bc), GUI (depends on your desktop UI), and also available if you write code or scripts.

Linux to Windows: There is no relation at all aside from both being created for the same hardware initially.

Linux to OS X: Technically no relation. however OS X is a full Unix-compliant operating system, meaning it actually does a lot of things very similarly to Linux.

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Real player can do that

http://www.real.com/linux/

LINUX, along with other UNIX-based operating systems, provides Read/write/execute/delete controls on every file. For example, if you have read permissions for a file, you can read but not write, execute or delete it. Each permission (RWXD) also has assoiated groups, Root, Owner, group, all. If you give every file only Root acces to delete and write, and make sure that you always log in as a less privileged user, you effectively eliminate the possibility that an application that you are running will ever be able to damage your file system. LINUX and other UNIX based systems have very good security and that is the reason you see so little success from the virus geeks who attempt to attack LINUX systems. Besides, who would admit that they didn't put proper access controls on their LINUX system, and it ended up getting toasted by a virus?

The most often used X Window (graphical) desktop environments are KDE and GNOME. There are many others.