The Linux Compendium
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What is Routing and a Routing table in Linux? Routing is the transfer of an IP packet from one point to another across the network. When you send someone an email, you’re actually transmitting a series of IP packets or datagrams from your system to the other person’s computer. The packets sent from your computer … Read more
When you install a virtual machine or a guest OS on your machine, it does not exactly perform like the host OS because it has some limitations regarding performance. But VMware presented a solution for this by introducing VMware guest tools that enhance and improve the performance of the guest OS. VMware tools enable the … Read more
Vim is a text editor used for effective text editing and is also known as an editor for programmers. It is a free, open-source tool that supports many programming languages and is available with a graphical user interface and a command-line interface. Vim is used for editing the source code of large files and offers … Read more
VirtualBox is a free, open-source, and cross-platform software that allows you to create, run and manage virtual machines on your system. VirtualBox was originally developed by Innotek GmbH and released in 2007. The company was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. With Oracle VM VirtualBox, you can create one or more VMs on a single physical … Read more
You may need to restart or stop network services on your Rocky Linux system occasionally. This article shows you step-by-step how to start, stop, or restart network services on Rocky Linux 8. The same commands also work on other RHEL clones such as AlmaLinux 8 and CentOS 8. Steps to start, stop and restart the … Read more
Notepad++ is one of the best text and source code editors developed for the Microsoft Windows platform. Notepad++ is an open-source code editor that is much better than the standard Windows text editor. It supports various features like syntax highlighting, multi-document view, bracket matching, macro recording, auto-completion, color codes, etc. But it is not available … Read more
The calculator is one of the basic tools of any operating system. The Linux operating system also includes a calculator application, which is perfectly sufficient for basic use. You can solve both simple and complex mathematical equations. By default, the calculator application in Linux appears in a simple mode. However, to perform more advanced calculations, … Read more
In Linux distributions, each document that is created on the system is provided with some timestamps. Each document must store the information about the last access time, the last modification time, and the last modification time. So all the timestamp information is updated when you create, access or modify a file. The “touch” command is … Read more
If you have already worked with vim editor, gvim is a similar tool but it has a graphical user interface. In this small article, I am going to show you the method of installing gvim editor on Debian version 11 using its terminal. Before you actually start the installation, open up the terminal and run … Read more
The top command in Linux lets you monitor running processes and the system resources they use. As a system administrator, it can be the most useful tool in your toolbox, especially if you know how to use it. The top utility is pre-installed on all Linux distributions. With this interactive command, you can specify how … Read more