Find Your Top Ten Most Used CLI Commands

VnTutor gives a great tip:

…you can know what are your commands in top 10 by using this command:
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”}{print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
Mine showed up as:
114 sudo
19 cd
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Mandriva Releases Coporate Desktop 4.0

Amazing site DesktopLinux.Com announced that popular and not-so-popular distro Mandriva has put out an updated offering for the enterprise-level desktop. Specific to this release:
# Directory administration and integration — To complement directory-based authentication, Corporate Desktop 4.0 includes a new tool to set KDE user rights from an LDAP directory.
# Mobility — Corporate Desktop 4.0 features [...]

Rebranded GAIM client available for Ubuntu Feisty

Debian/Ubuntu site debuntu.org has a package for the rebranded GAIM instant messaging client. Now it’s called Pidgin, and it’s available for Ubuntu Feisty!
Pidgin 2.0.0 .deb for Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

How to Recover an Unresponsive Linux System

That’s right…sometimes it even happens on Linux. Your GUI freezes…so then what do you do? LXPages has list of Ubuntu tricks, and among them is a list of super handy keyboard shortcuts to get you out of your GUI jam. Here’s just a few:
A) Press “ALT” + “sysreq-key” + “one of the keys” listed below [...]

Uncluttering Your Desktop

For many people, a key to a productive session at the computer is a clean and organized desktop. This forum post from the The Linux Action Show Forums by hammerandbank has some great GNOME specific tips. Among my favorites:
Take all your menus, shortcuts, clock, and backround apps and move them onto one panel. If you [...]