Day: May 31, 2012

Linux Mint 13 maya the best release yet of this distribution. A single repository would make it perfect.

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The Linux Mint 13 maya distribution is the best release yet of the Linux Mint distribution. I wish though it had a single repository like Ubuntu rather than using a combination of the Linux Mint and Ubuntu repositories. That would make it very easy to upgrade in place rather than having to download the ISO … Read more

Using the UNIX/Linux sleep command to pause a shell script or command for a short time. And other useful commands.

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The Linux sleep command will enable you to pause a Linux command for a short time. The example below has our command halting for 5 seconds before executing. The suffix s means seconds, this is useful for halting a script whilst you are waiting for something else to run. C:\HOME\FLYNN\DESKTOP> sleep 5s ; ps PID … Read more