Part 1 - Screen Screen is a program that can create virtual terminals inside your current session. If you are used to a tabbed web browser you can think about it as adding tabs to your terminal. And if your server allows it can allow you to disconnect sessions and keep then running in the background, even if you log out. You can install screen on Debian with apt-get by running sudo apt-get install screen and yum install screen for rpm based systems. ...
Conky is a system monitor for Linux. It can tell you almost anything your computer, such as CPU usage memory usage network information and almost anything else. Here is what my Conky configuration looks like on my desktop. To install Conky on a RPM based distribution run yum install conky Or on a Debian based distribution run sudo apt-get install conky To get yours to look like that you need to put a file named .conkyrc in your home folder. Your home folder is usually /home/$USER. ...
From time to time every Linux user will run across a program that does not come in a nice packaged DEB or RPM. Often in the form of a tar.gz, tgz, tar.bz, tar, gz, tar.bz2 or tbz2 format. This is how you can make use of them. Remember to have a compiler installed and any dependencies for the software you installing. Extract To uncompress your file run the following command that applies to your extension. ...