Linux GECOS Information Demystified

If you ever wanted to know what GECOS is and why it’s important to you, here are the answers.
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Monitor System Load on Ubuntu 20.04 with Sysdig

Sysdig is an open-source and comprehensive activity monitoring tool for Linux. It is used to capture and analyze application logs and helps you to troubleshoot system-related issues. In this post, we will show you how to install and use the Sysdig moni…

How To Execute Shell Commands Via PHP

This post discusses how to execute shell commands via PHP. The ability to execute shell commands is a powerful feature and should be used carefully. As such, not all hosting providers will allow you to execute shell commands.
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Elasticsearch: A Highly Scalable Open-source Full-Text Search and Analytics Engine

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Elasticsearch on Debian 11 Bullseye. Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine. The software supports RESTful operations that allow you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and in near real-time. Elasticsearch is well-liked and popular amongst sysadmins and developers because […]

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Get a List of All Commands Available to the Logged-In User

We’re all familiar with Linux’s command-line interface (CLI), which allows you to execute nearly any job you can think of by just typing commands into it. This guide shows you how to get a list of all commands, functions, and aliases that t…

How to Install PrestaShop on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache

5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Sysadmin

Being an IT professional, you know that information is important. Here are five bits of information I wish I’d known before signing on the dotted line as a sysadmin.
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8 Best Ways To Secure Linux Server: Linux Hardening Guide 2021

This detailed guide shares various best practices and tips on how to secure your Linux server and keep it locked down. It shares easy-to-follow tips with great detail so that you can implement them on your server to keep intruders and malicious hackers away. You will learn best practice advice about physical server security all […]

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Install elementary’s Tweaks Tool

This quick tutorial demonstrates the steps to install elementary Tweaks tool/Pantheon Tweaks Tool.
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Top 25 Hacking Terms For Learners

Welcome to our series “Hacking with Kali Linux”. Before we move on to advanced topics, it is important to get familiar with hacking terminologies or hacking terms or slang. We will be using these terms in articles throughout our series.

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Change Your Lock and Login Screen Wallpaper in elementary OS

This tutorial explains the steps you need to change lock and login screen background in elementary OS. This will replace the default grey background.
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Developer.com: GitHub Enlists Stanford Law to Defend Open Source Developers

Developer.com’s Mike Vizard reports on the newly formed GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship. Seeded by a $1 million Developer Defense Fund, “the Fellowship will be made accessible at no cost to developers any time GitHub receives a valid takedown claim that would require GitHub to remove code from its public repository.” Read the entire story at […]

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Recover a Deleted Logical Volume (LV) in LVM

This quick article shows you how to recover accidentally deleted logical volume (LVM) in Linux using the vgcfgrestore command.
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Linux Mint 20.2 Arrives: Top Desktop Linux Keeps Improving

New desktop Linux distros arrive a couple of times a week, but Linux Mint retains its hold on my desktop because it works well, and with every release, it only gets better.
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Linux for Starters Part 11: Getting Help

This article explains the main ways you can get help direct from your new Ubuntu system. This is best used in conjunction with help from other sources such as friends, colleagues, forums, and other sources of information.
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KDE Plasma 5.22.4 Further Improves Plasma Wayland, Makes System Monitor Faster to Launch

KDE Plasma 5.22.4 is packed with many improvements to make the KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment series more stable and reliable. First, it improves the login screen authentication on systems using systemd-homed to no longer fail when entering the wrong password. Second, it makes the new Plasma System Monitor app a lot more faster to […]

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How to Install Sysdig to Monitor System Load on Ubuntu 24.04

Sysdig is an open-source and comprehensive activity monitoring tool for Linux. It is used to capture and analyze application logs and helps you to troubleshoot system-related issues. In this post, we will show you how to install and use the Sysdig moni…

Setup Local WordPress Development Environment In Linux

This tutorial defines LocalWP, the benefits of using LocalWP, and how to install LocalWP to deploy and set up a local WordPress development environment in Linux.
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13 Skills Sysadmins Need to Make a Career Move Into Management

Want to make a career move from systems administration into management? Acquire these 13 skills to succeed.
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