The Linux Compendium
MySQL and MariaDB are the most widely used relational database management systems (RDMS) when it comes to website hosting and CMS systems such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and Typo 3. In this article, I will explain how to speed up and optimize your MySQL and MariaDB database server. Store MySQL data in the separate partitions … Read more
Linux users nowadays can perform various operations with programs that have a high-quality user interface. However, there are many reasons to use the Linux command line, the terminal. Through the terminal, you can access many powerful native Linux commands as well as the powerful command-line features of many desktop applications. You can install software in … Read more
What is Routing and a Routing table in Linux? Routing is the transfer of an IP packet from one point to another across the network. When you send someone an email, you’re actually transmitting a series of IP packets or datagrams from your system to the other person’s computer. The packets sent from your computer … Read more
VirtualBox is a free, open-source, and cross-platform software that allows you to create, run and manage virtual machines on your system. VirtualBox was originally developed by Innotek GmbH and released in 2007. The company was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. With Oracle VM VirtualBox, you can create one or more VMs on a single physical … Read more
Notepad++ is one of the best text and source code editors developed for the Microsoft Windows platform. Notepad++ is an open-source code editor that is much better than the standard Windows text editor. It supports various features like syntax highlighting, multi-document view, bracket matching, macro recording, auto-completion, color codes, etc. But it is not available … Read more
The top command in Linux lets you monitor running processes and the system resources they use. As a system administrator, it can be the most useful tool in your toolbox, especially if you know how to use it. The top utility is pre-installed on all Linux distributions. With this interactive command, you can specify how … Read more
The Vim editor can be described as a text editor for programmers. It is upward compatible with the Vi editor and can be used to write and edit simple files and programs. Besides the many extensions it offers, the Vim editor can also be used to password protect your text files. In this article, we … Read more
Sometimes we need to unzip multiple zipped and rar’ed files at once, all in a single folder. In the Ubuntu user interface, this is pretty easy: you just have to select all the files you want to unzip, right-click on them and use the Extract option to unzip them all. Things get really difficult when … Read more
The DNS or the Domain Name Server can be characterized as one of the most essential parts of your link to the internet. The DNS translates the domain names to and from the IP addresses so that we don’t need to remember or keep a list of all the IP addresses of the websites we … Read more
Most Ubuntu systems use bash or dash as their default terminal application. You type your commands at a standard command prompt, which usually displays your username, hostname, and current directory in a predefined color scheme. Bash provides many customization options for the command prompt that allow you to not only add different functions to the … Read more