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s3tools

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Save Backups in the Cloud

Amazon S3 is a reasonably priced data storage service. Ideal for off-site backups, archiving and other data storage needs. Check out About Amazon S3 section to find out more.

S3cmd is a command line tool for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3. It is best suited for power users who don’t fear command line. It is also ideal for scripts, automated backups triggered from cron, etc.

S3cmd is an open source project available under GNU Public License v2 (GPLv2) and is free for both commercial and private use. You will only have to pay Amazon for using their storage. None of these money go to S3cmd developers.

more at http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

How to pimp your CentOS into a perfect desktop

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When it comes to being used as a desktop operating system, CentOS has several major advantages: it is super-stable and offers a very long-term support, which are a blessing for people seeking serious work. On the other hand, the rock-solidness comes with one possible flaw; you don’t always get the latest and greatest software.

In this article, it will show you how you can pimp a typical CentOS 6 installation, so that it comes with all the bling-bling you need, hence the colloquial term pimp. You’ll learn how to get the latest Firefox and Chrome builds, LibreOffice, Sun Java, Adobe Flash, Skype, Google Earth, and a few more items. It’s going to be a blast. Follow me.

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What is Centos

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What is Centos? And Steps by Steps Installation guide of CentOS Linux…

Firstly let us understand what is CentOS and what the system requirements to installation of CentOS Linux are…

What is Centos?

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork. And YES CentOS is FREE. CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. In turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

System requirements table and notes regarding installation:

Installing CentOS is pretty straightforward with some configurable options along the installation process; I’d list the necessary steps here for a graphical installation. Note that the graphical installer needs at least 512 MB and it’s not recommended for servers OS. However text mode is less resource consumption and 128 MB RAM will be enough for it.

An administrator or “root” must partition the HDD prior to the installation eg. Allocate 100MB for the 1st partition as “boot” and 512MB or more for “swap” and the rest of the HDD for system and users’ files. Otherwise it will prompt the user with partition options during the installation process.

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