Archive for January, 2010

• TECHPULP | What is the best alternative to WinZip
  If you are tired of commerical software WinZip, The best free software alternative to WinZip is 7-zip. In fact 7-zip is better than WinZip as it supports more formats like BZIP2, RPM etc along with its own format 7z. 7-zip...
• TECHPULP | How to install VLC Media Player on Fedora
  Fedora doesn’t distribute VLC media player as part its core and updates. So you need download rpms from rpmfusion.org as shown below. [root@techpulp ~]# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm [root@techpulp ~]# yum install -y vlc [root@techpulp ~]# yum install -y mozilla-vlc Off...

• TECHPULP | How to retain RPMs downloaded by yum
  Generally yum deletes all RPMs it downloads right after installing them. If you want to save Internet bandwidth and have multiple systems to be updated, you can make yum to keep the RPMs it downloads. The highlighted line in /etc/yum.conf...
• TECHPULP | How to free cached memory and dirty pages in Linux
  When an application reads a file, Linux kernel keeps cache of file contents in memory. The Linux keeps the cache even after application closes the file to improve performance for further read operations of same file. This cache is freed...