A few handy commands

Linux gurus will already know these nifty command line utilities, but newbs and even mid-level users might find them useful.

Remember that if you have questions about syntax or options for any command, just do man [command].

First, commands that webmasters and network admins will like:

whois This is a great one for tracking visits to your websites. You can do "whois ipaddress" or "whois domain."

I've been on FC 11 for over a week now. The more I get to know it, the more I love it.

My Path to the Nirvana of Fedora Core 11

I never thought that I would see an operating system like this in my lifetime. Well, OK, I did think that I would see one, but I thought its development would take until 2015.

I have been a fan of Red Hat since the mid-'90s when my friend set up a web server and let me play around with it. Back then it was all command line stuff, and Linux was, for the most part, strictly for servers and programming. The first time I opened an X11 (Linux GUI) session, I was like, "Well, I guess Microsoft has nothing to worry about." It was buggy. It was slow. It looked like crap. Still, Red Hat Linux rocked the web server so well that I became a fan.