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Mandriva Linux 2011.0 Released

Well, "It's Been A Long Time Coming". If you're not old enough to remember Crosby, Stills & Nash singing that song at Woodstock, perhaps you are at least old enough to remember that this Mandriva release has been "in the works" for a very long time. Despite a lot of problems, real and rumored, and a significant delay rather late in the development cycle, they have now produced a whopping baby - the ISO download is 1.7GB! The Release Announcement is rather terse - it boils down to "the release is available, it might be a good idea to read the release notes or take the demo tour while installing". The Release Notes don't actually have all that much more to say, but the do at least contain some encouraging words about compatibility and upgrading from previous Mandriva releases. The Release Notes also explain that starting with this release Mandriva is a KDE-only distribution - no more Gnome, Xfce or other desktop environments or window managers. If you want those, or others, you'll have to depend on contributed packages from the Mandriva community. There are also notes about the selection of "standard" applications, most of which I agree with and think are good choices (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and the like). One I rather strongly disagree with, they have dumped digiKam in favor of Shotwell (see recent blog post by apexwm ). Download is easy, if a bit lengthy due to the large ISO size. The distribution is still a "hybrid ISO" image, which means that you can create a bootable USB stick by simply using the dd utility - or of course you can burn it to a DVD. When you boot the ISO, you get the first look at the new drive for "simplicity" at Mandriva. The boot menu has two items, "Launch System" and "Install System". That's it, no other options. It doesn't get much simpler than that - even the splash screen is a solid light blue background with the Mandriva logo, no fancy graphics or dancing penguins here.

Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11 | HowtoForge ...

Last edited 08/10/2011

This tutorial is supposed to show useful terminal commands to people who are new to Linux.

 

1 Preliminary Note

Terminal commands are powerful tools if they are used correctly, but can cause great damage if you are not completely aware of what you are doing. Before using commands that are new to you, look up the manual page and make sure you have your files saved and backed up.

This tutorial comes without guarantee of any kind.

 

2 Root User

On Linux Mint there is only one user with administrative rights which is the so called . When logged in to root, the font color of the command line will change from green to red. You will need to be extremely cautious performing commands in this mode since you have no restrictions set by the system. Make sure you know exactly what you are doing and have backups of your files made. To quit root status, just type in

exit

Instead of keeping root active the whole session, you can also use it for single actions only by placing in between kill and the PID parameter to force kill a process. Be careful using this option though since killing important system processes might cause it to crash.

kill 9 [PID]

Please notice that processes do not have the same PID everytime they are run. Always doublecheck if you got the right PID before you actually kill or even force kill a process.

Another useful command is

Why is this article titled "Useful Basic Terminal Commands on Mint 11" when the commands are pretty much universal default in most distributions?  Though not in Red Had distros, you will find "apt" in Debian based distros.  "locate" is found in pretty much all distributions by default except for Gentoo, where it can be emerged through portage.

Take away the title and it is a good article.

The su command should be avoided (root password), instead use sudo -i (root use with the user password) this opens a new shell as pseudo-root user to do more than one thing as being root  and an exit or CTRL+D brings you back to your own user shell. Linux is a multi-user system and in my case not all of my computer users are a member of the sudo group.

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