linux

It was 25th August 1991, when Linux Torvalds while studying computer science in University of Helsinki, announced a system in Usenet  newsgroup "comp.os.minix"

Hello everybody out there using minix - 

Need to setup a lab/office with 200+ computers, very tiring job but look if you have machines identical in configuration why are you installing each of them why not install one and replicate it to others this will save a lot of time, But how will i do this?????????? Its very very simple you can do a dd of the source to all destination but this would be even difficult and a bit geeky, hey dont worry we have a solution for it use PXE. 

Now what is this PXE??

Wikipedia "The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE, also known as Pre-Execution Environment, or 'pixie') is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of available data storage devices (like hard disks) or installed operating systems."

In recent past i use to do certain tasks at some scheduled time on the day which also included shutting down one of my machine at 8 PM. Then I came to know that this could be effectively done automatically using cron and so I am discussing cron in this post.

Cron is a daemon which schedules recurring tasks to be executed at a predefined time and date . It is very easy to schedule a job to be run at a particular time using cron. Cron daemon is typically started at boot time and runs continuously in the background.