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So how do you shutdown or reboot Ubuntu Linux from a terminal or a shell prompt? If GUI is working you can always click on a Quit button. If GUI is not working or if you are working remotely over ssh type the following command:

To shutdown / poweroff Ubuntu Linux

Type the command:

sudo halt

OR

sudo shutdown -h now

OR

sudo shutdown -r now

OR

 sudo init 6

To reboot Ubuntu Linux

Type the command:

sudo reboot

More information can be found about these two commands by typing following commands (man page):

man reboot
man shutdown

Install CVS files:
sudo apt-get install cvs

Install the CVS server:
sudo apt-get install cvsd

When prompted in the cvsd installation process for Repository, type in “/cvsrepo”.

Now that the cvsd installation in complete goto /var/lib/cvsd
or seeking for a change(or if there is a new version of cvs updated):

sudo cvsd-buildroot /var/lib/cvsd
If the folder cvsrepo does not exist, then create it ..
sudo mkdir cvsrepo
sudo chown -R cvsd:cvsd cvsrepo

and then initilize the repository
sudo cvs -d /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo init
create a user and password
sudo cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo +username
sudo vi //var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo/CVSROOT/config
Change “SystemAuto=no”

Test

cvs -d :pserver:username@localhost:/cvsrepo login

cvs -d :pserver:username@localhost:/cvsrepo checkout .

There are lots of programs that help us to monitor our personal computer. They provide us with memory consumption, cpu usage, network statistics and lots more. In this article I’m going to introduce gkrellm. I’ve always had gkrellm running in every desktop linux. It’s very useful and provides essential information in real time. Installing gkrellm is just very easy, type:sudo apt-get install gkrellm

to run it, type

gkrellm &

and you’ll get several info about your computer in real time.

Gkrellm supports themes, so the app can have several appearances. I always use the “invisible” theme, which is a transparent theme, so you can see the background. Very cool. To install a new theme (Ubuntu) go to

http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/

and download the theme you like. Most of the themes come gzipped. Once you download the theme to your home directory, ungzipp it and move the whole directory to ~/.gkrellm2/themes.

k3b cannot deal with mp3 files by default in Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
If you need to produce an audio cd by adding mp3 files with k3b, you’ll need to install the following package:

sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3

and you are done!!

It seems like every blog on the internet has one of these, so here’s my picks for the top 20 Linux applications. I’ll be covering programs from all different categories that I think stand out and shine as true wonders of Linux and will be presented in no particular order. I’ll even go over a few that I think could use some work but have potential to be something great.

Audio/Video

K3B

K3B is KDE’s cd burning application and it has nearly every feature you’d want. It has an interface similar to Nero and its capabilities are on par with Nero. I use this application for all my burning needs. It is a standard program and should be in all major distributions’ package managers. (more…)