Stefan Durand

My name is Stefan, I'm the admin of LinuxScrew. I am a full-time Linux/Unix sysadmin, a hobby Python programmer, and a part-time blogger. I post useful guides, tips, and tutorials on common Linux and Programming issues. Feel free to reach out in the comment section.

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Why use SUDO instead of SU?

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Nice article on why we should use sudo instead su. Actually it’s one of “must read” articles. GNU/Linux distributions use the “su” model to elevate user priveledges. SU (or Substitute User) is a simple command which allows you to assume another identity on your pc. It’s most-often use is to become the root or administrative user. Both GNOME and KDE provide graphical tools which perform the same task, allowing you to install packages, change your resolution, and so on. Sudo is a tool that supports … Read more

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7 “must read” Linux tutorials

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linux-logo.jpgIf you’re going to have long relations with Linux operating system and use it as efficiently as possible I suggest to read the following howtos and guides that will help you on the way to advanced Linux user status 🙂

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Run Photoshop with Ubuntu (or any other Linux)

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Adobe Photoshop (or simply Photoshop), is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. Currently it’s market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. Unfortunately it’s available for M$ Windows and Apple OS X users only. Thanks to heaven (and Wine’s developers of course) there is Wine allowing to execute M$ Windows applications (from simple executables to M$ Office and Adobe Photoshop) in Linux. The following instructions will help you to run Photoshop with you favorite … Read more

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Clean up your Ubuntu with deborphan

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If you want to clean up your Ubuntu or Debian machine and delete unnecessary (orphaned) deb packages you can use utility deborphan. It finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries. Install deborphan with command sudo apt-get install deborphan and then let’s proceed with cleaning up. To delete unnecessary libraries just execute: sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove –purge To delete unnecessary data packages … Read more

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Most popular Ubuntu blogs

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Here is Top 25 of Ubuntu blogs provided by FreeGeekery. These four metrics were used to calculate the rankings: — Google PageRank — Alexa Rank — Technorati Authority — Bloglines Subscribers # Ubuntu Blog Total 1 Ubuntu Geek 6 10 10 10 36 2 Ubuntu Blog 6 10 10 10 36 3 Mark Shuttleworth 7 9 10 10 36 4 The Fridge 6 10 9 10 35 5 All About Linux 5 9 10 10 34 6 Ubuntu Tutorials 5 9 9 9 32 7 … Read more

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux driver

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Good news for owners of Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series as manufacturer’s binary Linux drivers are available for free downloading. The driver is compatible with ALSA. Bad news: it’s available only for x86_64 Linux. Here is the list of supported cards: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Driver is available here.

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Network Traffic Generator: hping

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hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping program does with ICMP replies. hping3 handles fragmentation, arbitrary packets body and size and can be used in order to transfer files encapsulated under supported protocols. Using hping3 you are able to perform at least the following stuff: Test firewall rules Advanced port scanning Test net performance using different protocols, packet size, TOS (type of service) and fragmentation. Path MTU discovery Transferring files between even really fascist … Read more

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Install iTunes 7.2 in Ubuntu and other Linux distros

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iTunes is a media player that is available only for Windows and Mac OS X but also can be run in Linux with Wine. Certainly we’re interested in latter operating system :). The following manual shows how to get iTunes 7.2 running in Linux with wine 0.9.45. To install latest version of wine download corresponding binary package for you Linux distribution from here. Packages for Ubuntu Feisty are available here. Install deb package: sudo dpkg -i wine_0.9.45~winehq0~ubuntu~7.04-1_i386.deb Configure by running winecfg command in terminal: In … Read more