When you begin to use the Ubuntu operating system, the first choice of installing software is through the graphical Ubuntu Software manager. Although many programs are available in this collection, you will soon know that it lacks many powerful utilities
As Ubuntu users, especially audio and video editors, we may need to extract audio from our video files from time to time. With the growth of people using Linux as their prime operating systems and with the rise of more
This tutorial is about installing and configuring the well known and secure VsFTPD (Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon) server on your Ubuntu system. FTP or File Transfer Protocol by far is a common network protocol that is used to
As Linux users, we sometimes need to know which port number a particular process is listening upon. All ports are associated with a process ID or service in an OS. So how do we find that port? This article presents
The Vim editor can be called a programmer’s text editor. It is upwards compatible with the Vi editor and can be used to write and edit plain files and programs. Along with the many enhancements it provides, Vim Editor can
The graphical Calendar tool available on your Ubuntu system is pretty useful. However, if you are more Terminal-savvy, you can use the powerful command line utilities like cal and ncal in order to customize the way you want to view
The Webmin console is your answer to on-the-fly management of Linux as an administrator. You can use any web browser to setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing, and much more. In this article, we will describe a step-by-step installation
Specifying a profile picture for your user account is a great way of customizing your account in Ubuntu. You can then identify your account through your unique profile picture on the login screen as well as everywhere else. Giving your
Remember the days when the web was as simple as searchable text. The terminals and low powered personal computers were enough to access the text-based web over snail-paced internet connections. Of course, people then used the command-line web browsers to
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