5 Ways to Edit PDF files in Ubuntu

Edit PDF file in Ubuntu

PDF or Portable Document Format is usually our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing, and sending documents, especially larger documents. On Windows and macOS, you probably are familiar with and rely on the widely used Acrobat products for viewing and editing PDF files. Unfortunately, there is no standard PDF editor on your Linux … Read more

How to block/allow ping using iptables in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Block Ping

What is iptables? Iptables is a command-line firewall program that allows or blocks traffic based on the policy chain used. Iptables takes a packet-based approach to monitor traffic. When a program tries to connect to your system, iptables looks for a rule from a predefined list. If a rule is not found, it falls back … Read more

Managing logs with Logrotate on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Logrotate

The performance of a computer or server environment very much depends upon the system memory and disk usage. If something is consuming more disk space then it will lead to a system error. Likewise, increasing log file size must be controlled to reduce such risk. Logrotate was introduced as a system utility that rotates, compresses … Read more

6 Methods to Generate a Strong Password in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Strong Password

We all know how important it is to use strong passwords for our systems, online accounts, and other sensitive applications. The real question is how you generate a password that you can rely on and that meets the criteria of a strong password. Ideally, a strong password must contain lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and … Read more

Top 3 Video Players for Ubuntu

Best Ubuntu Media Players

There are many free and open-source video players for Ubuntu. Most of them do the basic tasks pretty well and you won’t miss anything you know from Windows that you could use on Ubuntu. However, some players offer additional features and you can choose which one is best for you based on the feature list. … Read more

Improving Notebook Battery Life in Ubuntu with TLP

Ubuntu Improve Battery Life

TLP is a free, open-source, and feature-rich utility for optimizing battery consumption on laptops running Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. You can find it in both CLI and GUI versions for your convenience. TLP comes with a default configuration that is pretty much perfect for your operating system and the underlying machine. All you need … 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

How to Install GNU Octave on Ubuntu 20.04

GNU Octave on Ubuntu

GNU Octave is an interpreted high-level programming language with numerous software features intended mainly for numerical computations. It provides solutions for numerical linear and nonlinear problems and for performing various other numerical experiments with compatible languages such as MATLAB. Octave provides extensive graphical features for visualization and data manipulation. Typically it is used through its … Read more