How to Make a User an Administrator in Debian 11

Debian Administrator User

If you have multiple user accounts in your system, it is not a good idea to give administrative privileges to all of them. It is always safe to limit the privileges of certain accounts to prevent unauthorized and potentially harmful changes to the system. However, if you want to assign administrative privileges to certain users, … Read more

How to Install VMware Tools on Debian 11

VMWare Tools

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

5 Ways to Open or Launch an Application in Debian

Debian Launch Application from Desktop

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

How to Install gvim Editor on Debian 11

Graphical VIM Editor

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

How to Install vim editor on Debian 11

Vim Editor

Vim is a short form of Vi IMproved. It is an open-source and free tool with a command-line interface and a Graphical User Interface. This article will show you how to install vim editor on Debian 11 using the terminal. To get started, you need to open up a terminal with root privileges and update … Read more

Get System and Hardware Details with uname and lscpu on Debian

Debian get Hardware details

This guide shows you how to retrieve system details of your Debian 11 or Debian 10 system, e.g. kernel name, kernel release, kernel version, hostname, hardware architecture, processor type, hardware platform and operating system information. This guide was tested with Debian 10, but the commands shown here also work with other Linux distributions.  How to … Read more

How to set up NTP Server and Client on Debian 11

NTP Server and Client on Debian

NTP stands for Network Time Protocol. It is a protocol or service used to synchronize the clock of your client computers with the clock of a server. The server’s clock is also synchronized with the Internet. In this article, I’ll show you how to set up an NTP server in your environment and synchronize the … Read more

Three Internet Radio Clients for the Debian 11 Terminal

Media Player

There are so many music players that support audio streaming, but what if you’d rather listen to your favorite radio stations without leaving the comfort of the command line? There are actually quite a few command-line music players that let you listen to radio stations directly in the terminal. These are quite simple and handy … Read more