The Linux Compendium
When we move to a new house, we set it up according to our needs. Same case when moving to a new desktop environment. Visibility and ease of use is a great concern for any user when working on a computer system. The cursor size, among many other visual features, is one such thing. We … Read more
If you are a new Debian admin, you might want to know how to change the sudo password on the shell. After all, it is a good security practice to change passwords regularly for any user, especially the Super User, who can perform all sensitive operations on Debian. Only a Super User or root can … Read more
SSH stands for Secure Shell and it is a protocol that is used to securely access a remote server on a local network or internet for configuration, management, monitoring, and troubleshooting, etc. In this article, I am going to discuss how you can manage a remote Linux server with the help of SSH. I have … Read more
Debian allows you to customize your long and rugged bash commands by using short and pleasant aliases as a replacement. When you are working on the command line, you can just use an alias instead of the entire command you want to avoid typing. The alias will work exactly in the same way as the … Read more
There are many open-source media players available for Linux users over the Internet. The preference of choice comes with the ease of installation and the availability of a stable version. The stable version of VLC 3.0 is out and available for use at the time of writing this article. In this article, we will show … Read more
What is Routing of Network Packages? The process of network package routing is the transmission of an IP packet from one point to another over the network, e.g the internet. When you send an email to someone, you are actually transferring a series of IP packets or datagrams from your computer to the other network … Read more
It is a good practice to keep your clock synchronized with the Internet according to your specified time zone unless there is a need to alter system time manually. This article describes ways through the command line and the graphical user interface of Debian 10 to keep your clock sync with the internet time servers. … Read more
From time to time we have to clean up our system memory to make room for installing new programs and handling additional files. This is especially important when you have a low storage device or a limited storage capacity. Even if you have a large storage available but you are a person like me who … Read more
Grep stands for global regular expression print. It is a useful command and widely used by Linux system engineers while searching a string or patterns against regular files and in the system. In this article, I am going to demonstrate the usage of grep command with a large number of examples. I have tested all the … Read more
As a common practice, users are required to provide authentication information to log on to a Linux system. This helps in securing any sensitive or personal files, emails and other data residing on your system from any physical intrusion. However, if your system is placed at an already secure location, free from any privacy threat, … Read more