After adding a network card (NIC or Network Interface Card) to an OpenSuSE system, and configuring the device with YaST, I could not get it to activate.  After a reboot it also didn’t show up as an active interface.

On building a new system in VMware, frequently there are additional things you need to install.  In addition to installing the VMware tools, there are certain dependencies that need to be added as well.  These include make, gcc, and the kernel libraries.  These can be done with the following commands:

Many of the utilities in Ubuntu Linux use a text editor to allow you to edit configuration options and files. An example of this is using the crontab command, which allows you to edit your cron jobs using the default editor.

It's really easy to set the default editor using the update-alternatives command. Open up a terminal window and type in the following command:

I recently ran into a problem where I was unable to successfully burn a DVD (Digital Video Disk) .ISO file. (NOTE: Some documentation may refer to a DVD as a Digital Versatile Disk instead of a Digital Video Disk. Both are correct. The term Digital Video Disk is more commonly used because it is the format for watching movies.) For those who may not be aware, an .ISO file is an image of a data CD (Compact Disk) or DVD.

There are times you want to enter a single-line command to unzip all the files in a directory.  If the current directory is:

/home/timb/download/files

the command would be: