Prakash Advani's Blog

I have been using Knoppix as my primary Linux distribution since a month now. I think its the best distribution I have used and highly recommended for a newbie since it can be run from a CD as well installed on the hard disk. I also wrote an article on Knoppix installation tips. This covers tips on installing Knoppix on the hard disk.

Recently SCO has been accusing Unix code being copied into Linux. AT&T has the license to Unix, which was acquired by Novell and transformed into UnixWare, which was then acquired by SCO and then SCO was aquired by Caldera (a Linux vendor) which was later renamed back as SCO. NOw it appears that people are not happy with SCO’s move, who would be. SCO’s website was hacked. I hope SCO doesn’t play nasty which it can if it wants to. And right now it looks like it wants to. I used to be a SCO Unix administrator and I must say that their product sucked big time, thats when I got my hands on Linux and found it way better and easier to use/administer than SCO. Since then I dumped SCO and have been using Linux.

Has anyone thought why SCO must be doing this? Microsoft has a stake in SCO if thats anything to do with this.

Published on Newsforge

Today India is a hot topic for discussion as far as Linux is concerned. Many users around the world want to understand the mindset of Indians regarding Linux. This article attempts to give some insight to the market dynamics here, and how they make Linux a natural fit for India.

Published on LinuxGazette.
This document is written for people who have just installed Linux but don’t know what to do next. Most of the commands discussed here should work on all distribution of Linux but since I use Red Hat 5.0 some of them may be specific to Red Hat 5.0. I have also used Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 and have included some Caldera specific information. If any of you have any suggestions or ideas to improve this document, they are most welcome. All commands are in quotes and you need to type them without the quotes. For example if you see type “ls” then you just need to type ls. You will also have to press the ENTER key after typing each of the commands. There are some useful commands in the document but for complete command reference you will need to refer to additional documents.