What is a Root user? Before starting with how to become a root user in order to perform sensitive Ubuntu operations, it is important to have some understanding of the significance of a root user in Linux. The latest versions
This article is about accessing your Google Drive Account through your Ubuntu system. The process involves adding your online Google account to your Gnome Online Accounts list. This configuration then lets you mount your Google Drive account to your Nautilus
All operating systems with network support have a hosts file to translate hostnames to IP addresses. Whenever you open a website by typing its hostname, your system will read through the hosts file to check for the corresponding IP and
The best thing about an open source operating system, such as Linux, is that you can customize it as much as you want, ranging from default applications such as file managers, music players, web browsers, and text editors etc. to
When you have to take a break from work but do not want to end your current session, locking your computer screen is the way out. You can, of course, shut down your system and start it again when you
You may often have to access remote servers to administer, manage, and troubleshoot and there are several ways to do this. You may use telnet to login to remote servers; FTP allows transferring files between different servers. However, these programs
When the physical memory or RAM on our system is full, we end to make use of the swap space on our systems. In this process, the inactive pages of our memory are moved to the swap space, creating more
When we delete a file or folder from our system, it moves to the Trash folder(Linux) or the Recycle Bin(Windows). Time and again, we need to get rid of these mostly useless files and folders residing in our system trash
Many times it happens that you feel the need of knowing the IP address of your device. Internet Protocol address or IP address is a set of numeric digits that are needed to identify your device and enable network communication
Most Linux users, especially admins, depend upon the command line to perform frequent tasks on Ubuntu; one such task is rebooting/restarting your system. We tend to restart our systems for various reasons. One of these reasons is that some software
