The Linux Compendium
An audio or sound recording tool is vital since it lets you get a voice-over on a clip or perform other jobs. Nevertheless, capturing audio using Ubuntu is constantly a topic of discussion. There have been some tools that can help you do it quickly, but rather an integrated system cannot record audio. If you’re … Read more
The DNS or the Domain Name Server can be characterized as the most essential part 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 ever want … Read more
IDLE stands for Integrated DeveLopment Environment. It is an IDE for Python, written in Python language itself and based on Tkinter with bindings to the Tk widget set. IDLE is most suitable for beginners as it is easy to use and not feature-overloaded. Hence, it is very popular in educational environments. IDLE is a cross-platform … Read more
A zombie or a defunct process in Linux is a process that has been completed, but its entry still remains in the process table due to a lack of correspondence between the parent and child processes. Usually, a parent process keeps a check on the status of its child processes through the wait() function. When … Read more
Drupal is a free open source system and one of the most popular CMS platforms in the world. It is written in PHP and uses MariaDB as its database backend. It is used for creating various types of websites and blogs. It is a simple, modular and highly customizable CMS and an alternative CMS solution … Read more
OpenLiteSpeed is an open-source version of the commercial LiteSpeed web server. It is a lightweight and powerful HTTP server that can handle hundreds and thousands of simultaneous connections. Its user-friendly web interface allows you to manage your website from a web browser easily. Compared to other web servers like Apache, OpenLiteSpeed is known for its … Read more
Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java Servlet implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Besides Java Servlets, Tomcat implements several other Java server technologies, including JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket. Apache Tomcat provides an HTTP Web Server for Java applications with support for HTTP/2, OpenSSL for JSSE, and TLS virtual hosting. … Read more
MongoDB is a distributed NoSQL database system with built-in support for high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographical distribution. It is the most popular document-oriented database program that uses JSON-like documents to store data. Unlike tablelike relational databases, MongoDB provides different mechanisms for storing and retrieving data. MongoDB is a high-performance No-SQL database system that works … Read more
Suricata is a free and open-source intrusion detection (IDS), intrusion prevention (IPS), and network security monitoring (NSM) tool for Linux. It uses a set of signatures and rules to examine and process network traffic. When it detects suspicious packets for any number of services on a server, they are blocked immediately. By default, Suricata works … Read more
OpenLiteSpeed is a free and open-source web server edition of the LiteSpeed webserver Enterprise. It is an alternate solution for Apache web servers and is compatible with most features offered by Apache. It can be installed on many operating systems including, Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. It combines speed, security, scalability, optimization, and simplicity in a … Read more