In this episode: GParted Live CD; listener feedback; an audio walk-through of a SUSE Linux 10.1 hard drive installation. Additionally, you may want to see a screencast of the installation here. A particularly good review of this distribution is from Tuxmachines. Next week, we will be using some of things described […]

In this episode: listener feedback; an overview discussion of hard drive partitioning, including a look at primary, logical, and swap partitions; brief mentions of third party partitioners like PartitionMagic, Acronis, and the GParted live CD; a look at how Linux designates hard drives and hard drive partitions; a review and explanation of bootloaders, including […]

In this episode: first donation; information on VMware and LBox from Stefan at LinuxBasics.org; listener feedback, including a distribution chooser and where to install Firefox; command line basics, including a discussion of the shell and terminal, a brief look at the commands ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, less, the pipe character, su, and […]

In this episode: minor clarification; upcoming SUSE 10.1 release; listener feedback; a general discussion of Linux users, groups, and file/directory permissions, including the concepts of classes, specific permissions, symbolic notation, and octal notation.
Please feel free to discuss this episode in the Linux Reality forums.
Running time:  26:18

In this episode: Firefly and Can’t Stop the Serenity charity screenings; listener feedback including Colin’s blog with a screencast of Linux Reality Episode 11; a general, high-level discussion of Linux package management, including a comparison of source file tarballs and binary packages, such as RPMs and Debian .deb files.
Please feel free to discuss this […]