How to use apt to list available packages?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Just installed Debian and looking for ways to list all available packages using apt. After some search, i found that you can use apt-cache to list all available packages in debian.
To list all available packages from apt, follow the steps below:-

Linux: How to mount iso image file

Monday, August 27th, 2007

These few days i’m playing around with Xen Hypervisors. Downloaded CentOS 5 iso image, Fedora 7 iso image and Debian iso image. So to avoid wasting too much CD to burn these image, linux provide a way to mount these iso image file and let you access the files in the iso image instantly.
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Linux – How to check memory usage

Friday, July 20th, 2007

If you are running Linux on a low memory machine, then you’d probably want to know how to check memory usage. Once you check your memory usage, you will know where your memeory being used, so you can turn off those service that you do not use.
There are few ways to check memory usage [...]