The Linux Compendium
Grafana is a multi-platform open-source analytics and visualization platform to monitor computer systems. Grafana lets you create and share dashboards and has a thriving ecosystem of over 100 plugins for data collection, storage, visualization, and sharing. In this article, we’re going to show you how to install Grafana on Ubuntu 20.04 so that you can … Read more
Linux Kernel 5.15 was released as the newest Long Term Support (LTS) kernel release on Oct 31,2021. It provides new enhancements and features including a new NTFS driver and built-in support for Intel’s Alchemist discrete graphics. In summary, the latest kernel ships with the following improvements and features: AMD RDNA2 Graphics card initial support. New … Read more
SSHGuard is an open-source daemon that is used to enhance the security of ssh as well as other network protocols. Moreover, it is used to prevent brute force attacks. It will continuously monitor and keep the track record of the system logs which helps in tracking the continuous login attempts or malicious activity. Once it … Read more
Dealing with pictures on your computer, you might have come across EXIF data without knowing what it is. Images with EXIF data reveal all the details about a photo, such as where and when it was taken as well as with what device, amongst a host of many other things. While this is commonly a … Read more
Snort is a well-known open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS). Snort is very useful to monitor the package sent and received through a network interface. You can specify the network interface to monitor the traffic flow. Snort works on the basis of signature-based detection. Snort uses different types of rulesets to detect network … Read more
Linux container virtualization (LXD) is similar to Virtual machines (e.g. KVM) but with more speed, efficiency and much lighter compared to virtual machines. LXD containers for OS like Ubuntu, Centos, Arch Linux, etc are easy to create. LXD uses the same Linux kernel which reduces the overhead of the addition of such kernels. In this … Read more
RainLoop Webmail is an open-source email client that can be installed on your own web server. It supports IMAP and SMTP and provides a user-friendly interface with a variety of features. Some of the features offered by RainLoop Webmail include: Unified Inbox – View all your email messages in a single inbox, regardless of the … Read more
OpenLiteSpeed is a free and open-source web server software that enables users to deliver websites faster and reliably. This can be done in many ways, including concurrency, memory usage, request processing rates and built-in cache. OpenLiteSpeed has a large community dedicated to developers who contribute code and hardware to the project. OpenLiteSpeed is written in … Read more
MongoDB is a relational database that is free and open-source. When data is stored in dynamic schemas (JSON-like documents), it makes the integration of data into certain kinds of applications simpler and quicker. It’s often compared to other NoSQL databases like Cassandra or CouchDB. The reasons for its popularity are high performance, flexibility, ease of … Read more
GNU C++ is a compiler for the C++ programming language from the GNU Compiler Collection. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Its main purpose is to convert source code into an executable file (.exe) that can run on your computer. A compiler reads source code (also known as “text”) written by the programmer … Read more