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Release Of Linux Kernel 4.0 - Release Candidate Is Ready!

After 10 days of the poll made by Linus Travolds asking weather to release the next version number of Linux Kernel should be 3.20 or 4.0, He announced today Feb 23, 2015 that the next version number of the linux kernel will be 4.0 and the release candidate version will be available for testing.

Swap Partition

Hello Geeks .. This article applies for most of Linux Distributions and  SphinUX OS   . I tested it on ( Ubuntu , Kali , BackTrack 5 , Redhat ) but my screenshots are from SphinUX OS . What is Swap Memory ?  Swap memory is that drive you create while installing your OS or through your command shell to tell the operating system that when physical memory (RAM) start to get more traffic , it shall start transfer some of the data to the swap file or swap disk .( the transfer process have it's own algorithm i will not get into explaining it ) .