How to install Spotify on Debian 10

Spotify on Debian

Spotify is the most popular music streaming service, with millions of free and paid customers worldwide. It includes a collection of millions of songs with high-quality sound. It offers apps for desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms. While you may listen to music on its online interface, it is preferred to utilize a specialized app or … Read more

Install Nginx with PHP and MySQL (LEMP) plus SSL on Debian 10

Debian 10 LEMP

LEMP is an acronym that stands for the following software stack: Linux kernel, Nginx web server, MariaDB database (or MySQL), and the PHP server-side programming language. This software is widely used on servers on the Internet today to provide dynamic websites or interactive web applications. Nginx is a modern and resource-efficient web server that is … Read more

How to watch or monitor log files in Debian 10

Log File Monitoring

What are Linux log files? Log files are simply plain text files that contain the set of records, events, or messages about the server, applications, and services running on your Linux operating system. They are used by system administrators for troubleshooting purposes whenever an issue arises. In Linux, the log files are generally categorized into … Read more

How to customize Bash Terminal prompt on Debian 10

Customize Bash Prompt

The bash Linux shell provides many customization options for the prompt that you can use not only to incorporate various features in the prompt but also to differentiate them through different colors. In this article, we will use various examples to customize and recolor the prompt of our Terminal application that will enable you to … Read more

How to create and edit PDF files in Debian 10

Linux PDF Editor

PDF or Portable Document Format is one of the most widely used and well-known file formats used to read, print and exchange documents that do not require any editing. However, sometimes it is necessary to create and edit PDF files. Unfortunately, Linux does not ship with a standard PDF editor; however, you can do some … Read more

3 Ways to Power off Debian

Debian Poweroff

Along with many other routine tasks, Linux administrators also have to perform a safe shutdown or reboot. It seems the simplest task but should be done in a secure way. Our systems are continuously running processes. If the system is not properly powered off, files and processes will not safe closely, might result in corrupted … Read more

Scheduling a Task on Linux Using Crontab

Schedule Linux Task with Crontab

Cron helps us to run tasks automatically in the background in defined intervals. Cron is e.g. used to automatically create backups every night to sync files e.g. once an hour or to start updates or download files at specific intervals. This tutorial will show you how to set up and edit cronjobs using the crontab … Read more