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This was a pretty quiet week in the world of free software. However, as always, there were still several compelling stories in our never-dull community. This weeks stories deal with some of the most popular projects in the worlds of Linux, GNU, and free software: openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeNAS, and Mageia.

So IPv6 has been around a while now but do we know any benefits? We may know that it is 128bits long and too difficult to type but if that is all then we do ourselves a little injustice in not knowing how easy IPv6 can make our lives. So let us take a look at some of the automation features of IPv6 including auto-address assignment, router discovery and why we do not need a broadcast address.

In the TLWIR series, I take a hard look at the 8 most compelling stories in the realms of Linux, GNU, free software, and open source in the past week. This week is no different. There were great stories abound demonstrating more than ever that Linux has truly arrived. From Meego to Mint to Miro to the U.S. DoD, Linux and free software are literally everywhere.

This simple script can be run in a tty to that you can change the color to be more easily read.

I've always been slightly annoyed by the fortune cookie type message that appears in the Linux Mint terminal by default. Here I will show you how to get to this option in Linux Mint 11 and turn it off. I also cover how to turn off the fortune messages on Linux Mint 10 which requires a command or two.

At times you will want to have the script stop if it is not being executed as root or as a user who has root privileges for this script. This article will show you how to set up each of those options.

This OpenSUSE desktop tutorial explains how to how to setup and configure SAMBA and share configuration using YaST.

The most recent week brought a lot of exciting news to the worlds of Linux and GNU. In this week’s article, I will shine a spotlight on my favorite 8 Linux, GNU, and FOSS news stories, and offer my opinions and insights

The Linux utility nl is an easy tool to use to number lines in scripts or flexible enough to create headers, body and footers in your documents.

The Ubuntu system requires you to login as an administrative user to be able to execute commands that only root can execute. However, you can alter the system to allow root to login to perform hours of administration as root. This eliminates the requirement of typing the full path for commands.

The rm command can be used safely to remove files and directories in Linux, especially if you create an alias that will interactively ask about deletions.

The Linux stat command may be used to locate the detailed information about when a file was accessed, modified, created, the inode for the file, and the blocks used on the disk.

Learn how to debug Bash shell scripts by starting with these three examples. The Bash shell provides options you can use to debug your scripts.

Learning how to find the errors in your shell scripts is an important skill for successful shell scripting. The debug options in the Bash shell can help with that.

When you would like users to interact with the Bash Shell script, you can use case statements to allow them to make choices that create a more intelligent outcome with the script.

When you need to make additional tests after a false conclusion you can use if then elif statements for more options. The provides a way to create more intelligent statements.

Learning how to use conditions in Bash shell scripts is important to using shell scripts. The if then else condition allows you to create a second branch.

Use the if then statement to test for conditions in a Bash shell script. If the test is true, run commands and if it is false stop.

The until loop continues looping through the information provided until a requirement is met. Once the requirement exit status equals zero the loop stops.

The while loop continues as long as a specific requirement is met. Once the requirement is met the loop discontinues.