Linux Today

You might have come across a boot partition in your Linux installation and wondered if you need it. Here are the answers.

Compressed files with the .zip extension are commonplace throughout Windows systems, as it's been the native file compression method for the operating system since many years ago.

In this quick blog post, I will explain how to backup and restore LUKS header for emergency purposes.

Powered by the Linux 5.8 kernel series, Fedora 33 is the first release to use Btrfs as default file system for all the official spins.

Siege is an open-source multi-threaded load testing and benchmarking tool for Linux.

Package managers are able to fix broken packages to get your system working again. Here we'll cover how to fix broken packages in Linux.

colorls is a command-line utility that aims to improve on ls. color is written in Ruby.

Learn how to install WireGuard on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine and configure it as a VPN server.

So, you want a great job in technology?

YAML is an easy, expressive, data-oriented language that distinguishes itself from document markup languages.

Following the Ubuntu 20.10 release, there will be Ubuntu 21.04, whose codename will start with the word Hirsute followed by an animal name.

Learn how to configure NGINX as Load Balancer for applications deployed in Kubernetes.

Got network bandwidth? Are you sure? Find out with iftop.

Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi now comes with the full Linux desktop and, believe it or not, support for clouds.

Learn how to set up a Squid Proxy on Ubuntu 20.04 and configure Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers to use it.

I managed to install and did hands-on with the upcoming Xfce 4.16 pre-release. It's super exciting with new features and updates.

This article describes how to explore and extract different type of information from binary files of ELF format using PyElftools

Linus Torvalds:  I've tagged and pushed out 5.10-rc1, and everything looks fairly normal.

What's new in Ubuntu 20.10?

Let us see how to find out TLS/SSL cert expiry date from the Linux or Unix CLI.

Systemd (system daemon) is a modern system management daemon for Linux systems.

VnStat is a console-based network traffic monitoring tool design for Linux and BSD.

RoboLinux is one of the most advanced desktop Linux distributions you can find.

Announced at the Open Infrastructure Summit was the OpenStack Victoria open source cloud platform.

Learn how to install and configure an FTP server on Raspberry Pi that you use to share files between your devices.

Asterisk is a free and open-source VoIP server created by Sangoma.

What happened to 15 popular Linux distributions?

One of the most interesting directories in a Linux system is /var/log.

The biggest news in VirtualBox 6.1.16 is the implementation of support for the latest and greatest Linux 5.9 kernel series.

A list of the four tasks that any Linux user should be able to accomplish when using the Vim text editor.

Microsoft announced the Edge for Linux today as developer preview and it is immediately available for download as .deb and .rpm builds.

Lfs is a commandline tool used to list filesystems in Linux system. Lfs is slightly a better alternative to "df -H" command.

Apache Guacamole is a clientless open-source web-based gateway that provides remote access to servers.

Trisquel GNU/Linux 9.0 is based on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and it's powered by the GNU Linux-libre kernel.

If you are a network administrator you will need to monitor your network usage in day-to-day tasks. In this case, nload will help you do job easier.

A quick look at the flexibility that Booleans offer SELinux and how to make use of them.

cpupower-gui is a tool that makes it easy to change the CPU governor as well as the CPU frequency limits on Linux.

Snippets are a popular programming feature/functionality that ships with many modern text editors or IDE editors.

SystemRescueCd is dead! Long live SystemRescue!

antiX project releases its latest bug-fix, updated version antiX 19.3 based on stable Debian 10 "Buster".