Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a command-line program that accepts commands provided and executes them. It takes Linux commands directly typed into it interactively from a keyboard or from a shell script file. Bash is…
The rm command is a UNIX and Linux command line utility for removing files or directories on a Linux system. In this article, we will clearly explain what actually rm and “rm -rf” commands can…
In Unix/Linux systems, the root user account is the super user account, and it can therefore be used to do anything and everything achievable on the system. However, this can be very dangerous in so…
Linux systems provide a variety of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, etc.) and network services (such as remote login, e-mail, printers, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, domain name resolution (using…
SSH security is a top priority when setting up your server. The default SSH settings are usually not robust enough to safeguard your server from external attacks. Therefore, additional tweaks are needed to provide a…
SSH, an acronym for Secure Shell, is a remote network protocol that is used to securely connect to remote devices such as servers and network devices over a TCP/IP network. It is a cryptographic network…
Listing files is one of the most widely undertaken tasks by ordinary Linux users and system administrators. In Linux, the ls command, short for “list” is used to list or display the contents of a…
Git is the most popular version control system (VCS) used by developers and development teams to keep track of changes made to source code. In fact, it is the most popular version control system used…
In the May 2023 survey we received responses from 1,109,384,426 sites across 271,534,718 domains and 12,037,194 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 6.0 million sites, 976,941 domains, and 52,213 web-facing computers. Microsoft saw the…
Download managers on Windows are one of the most needed tools that are missed by every newcomer to the Linux world, programs like Internet Download Manager Download Accelerator Plus and Free Download Manager are very…
Ubuntu is one of the most widely used and popular Linux distributions, that comes in multiple editions including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core to mention a few. Ubuntu Desktop is a perfect choice…
Linux / UNIX supports device files that are stored in the /dev directory. These aren’t actual files, rather, they are special files or character devices that are representative of hardware devices attached to the system….
The primary application we require to perform our internet activity is a browser, a web browser to be more perfect in terms of privacy and security of online activities. Over the Internet, most of our’s…
Being anonymous on the Internet is not particularly the same as surging the web safely, however, they both involve keeping oneself and one’s data private and away from the prying eyes of entities that may…
We are almost half of the year, we thought it right to share with Linux enthusiasts out there the most popular distributions of the year so far. DistroWatch has been the most reliable source of…