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Vim is a powerful, feature-rich, highly extensible text editor that is used in all Linux OS. It is available in repositories of nearly all major Linux distributions. Because of its performance and low memory consumption, it is the top choice of most Linux users. One another useful feature of the Vim editor is its built-in … Read more

As we all know a port is only used by one process or service at one time. Port identifies a particular service or a process running on the system. Sometimes, while troubleshooting we need to know which port number a certain process is listening to. All processes running on a system are associated with a … Read more

NFS (Network File System) is a file system protocol that allows users to view and access files and folders on a remote system as if they were stored locally. It is a client-server setup where the system that shares storage is called the server, while the system that accesses storage stored on a server is … Read more

Imagine you need to show someone how to buy online or how to use a software product. There are many ways to do this: you can instruct them by phone, share screenshots or write an email. However, the best way to help someone understand and visualize a procedure is to do a screencast of it. … Read more

XAMPP stands for cross-platform(X), Apache(A) server, MariaDB(M), PHP(P) and Perl(P). It is a collection of these four and some other programs that enable users to transform their systems into a fully functional web server easily. The main components of XAMPP serve the following purpose: Apache: Delivers the web content to your browser Maria-DB: Stores data … Read more

Java is one of the most common programming languages that is used for developing and running a wide range of applications. By default, Linux distributions including Debian does not ship with the java (Java Runtime Environment, JRE) installed. However, sometimes in order to run certain programs, we may need to know if the java is … Read more

Most of the time people are bored by the standard desktop environment of the Linux distribution in Debian. So they look for some kind of desktop customization. In this case, there are a number of customization tools and options available that you can install or activate on your Debian 10 system. However, today we will … Read more

As Linux administrators, we sometimes need to look at our hard disk partition table. It allows us to reconfigure old drives by making space for more partitioning, and if required even creating space for new drives. The partition table lies in your hard disk sector 0. The devices in your system are displayed as /dev … Read more