You can actually mount ISO mirror image just with one click only! How? First you need to have a small tool called Gmount-iso to be installed on your desktop. It was written in PyGTK and Glade.

Just install with the command

sudo aptitude install gmountiso

You can use the command to do the job

mount -o loop -t iso9660 testing.iso /mountpoint

Or through the GUI at Applications -> System Tools -> Gmount-iso

Wine has released a new build 0.9.53 today.

Some changes on this build:

• RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
• Beginnings of support for emulated disk devices.
• Many Richedit improvements.
• Nicer looking color dialog.
• Lots of bug fixes.

But just in case you don’t know what Wine is. Wine is a translation layer software that let you run MS Windows software on your Unix\Linux. This software has started since 1993. Just after 12 years, in 2005, it then released their first beta 0.9 version. Hope this has answer your curiosity of why haven’t this software gone into version 1.0.

According to their development roadmap, they still have approximately 80 bugs to be fixed before a really 1.0 version will be announced. The main reason of the slow development speed is because MS Windows is a closed system.

Download: WINE 0.9.53

KDE is known as K Desktop Environment, it is one of the popular desktop environments running on Unix and Linux. Finally at last the long awaited stable KDE, they have announced their gold version 4.0 ready for the public.

KDE 4 not only bring in a cool series of technology like Decibel, Phonon, Solid, they also have new desktop shell called Plasma, new graphical user interface – Oxygen. Besides that, there are entire new series of applications such as Dolphin, Okular, Marble and etc.

There are already some Linux distros included the latest KDE 4.0 such as Kubuntu, Mandriva, Debian, KDE Four Live and so on.

If you are the only user that is using the desktop and you do not have any sensitive information, you sometimes might find it is troublesome to go through the login windows and key in password after every boot up.

Here is how you enable auto login feature in Ubuntu.
On Taskbar choose System > Administration > Login Window

Then in Login Windows Preferences highlight the Security tab. Just check Enable Automatic Login with your preference user selected and you have get rid with your Login Window already.

Share a small trick of Firefox. Sometimes on Firefox, we could not visit a page, it apparently will show an error page. It is normal to us.

But some of you might prefer an alert pop up than an error page. So, just in your firefox config (type about:config on the address bar and enter). Search for browser.xul.error_pages.enabled set it False for a pop up.

The reason of popup is because it is much faster and lesser memory consumption for a page rendering. However, it will become annoying if there are plenty alert boxes pop up at the same time.

If two days ago the simplified version of cheat sheet does not help you out. Maybe below this web site that provides over 350+ commands line should be sufficient enough to cover your basic need to Linux.

The commands line are categorized into below categories:

• System information
• Shutdown, Restart of a system and Logout
• Files and Directory
• File search
• Mounting a Filesystem
• Disk Space
• Users and Groups
• Permits on File – use "+" to set permissions and "-" to remove
• Special Attributes on file – use "+" to set permissions and "-" to remove
• Archives and compressed files
• RPM Packages – Fedora, Red Hat and like
• YUM packages updater – Fedora, RedHat and like
• DEB packages – Debian, Ubuntu and like
• APT packages updater – Debian, Ubuntu e like
• View file content
• Text Manipulation
• Character set and Format file conversion
• Filesystem Analysis
• Format a Filesystem
• SWAP filesystem
• Backup
• CDROM
• Networking – LAN and WiFi
• Microsoft Windows networks – SAMBA
• IPTABLES – firewall
• Monitoring and debugging
• Other useful commands

Source: linuxguide.it

For Linux newbies, if you find those commands hard to remember. Guys at FOSSwire has created a very useful cheat sheet for Linux users. Although now many Linux users have used to beautiful desktop GUI.

Last time I thought I have managed to settle the drives mounting problem on Ubuntu. But later I realized it was not 100 percent.

On /etc/fstab, my setting was

UUID=472C-857B /media/Zzz vfat user,auto,fmask=0777,dmask=0000 0 0

But in the end when I mounted a drive, on Properties of the drive, it was shown as read-only and permission allowed only for root.

On the terminal shown that it was read and write permission enabled.

but on windows Properties:

Is there any explanation for this out there?