YouTube is an online video-sharing platform that contains a vast repository of videos covering a wide range of topics such as music videos, educational content, vlogs, tutorials, movie trailers, gaming videos, and live streams. While…
As mentioned in Part 1 of the Gentoo installation procedure, installing Gentoo is quite daunting, and often requires a lot of patience due to the sheer number of steps involved. Nonetheless, with the right technical…
Rsync (Remote Sync) is the most commonly used command for copying and synchronizing files and directories remotely as well as locally in Linux/Unix systems. With the help of the rsync command, you can copy and…
Like any other operating system, GNU/Linux has implemented memory management efficiently and even more than that. However, if any process is eating away your memory and you want to clear it, Linux provides a way…
We are all aware of the most popular commands called ‘useradd‘ or ‘adduser‘ in Linux. There are times when a Linux System Administrator is asked to create user accounts on Linux with specific properties, limitations,…
Those Linux users who deal with PDF files have plenty of programs to choose from. More precisely, there exist a great number of dedicated PDF tools that can be used for various tasks. For example,…
Gentoo is a free and open-source Linux distribution known for its high performance, high reconfigurability, and stability. It uses the portage package management system for managing software packages. Unlike major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu,…
PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database management system, is widely renowned for its robust features and extensibility. While many Linux distributions provide PostgreSQL through their package managers, installing it from the source allows for greater customization…
In our last article, ‘The Story Behind the Acquisition of MySQL‘ we discussed the need to fork MySQL, the rise of MariaDB, its features, a comparative study of MariaDB and MySQL, the migration of some…
PostgreSQL is a powerful, highly scalable, open source, and cross-platform object-relational database system that runs on Unix-like operating systems including Linux and Windows OS. It is an enterprise-level database system that is highly reliable and…
GraphicsMagick is a free open-source, modern, and powerful software suite for processing images. It was initially derived from ImageMagick, however, over the years, it has grown to be a fully independent project, with several improvements…
By default, the login page of phpmyadmin is located at http://<ip address>/phpmyadmin. The first thing that you will want to do is change that URL. This will not necessarily stop attackers from targeting your server…
Linux turned 32 years old this year, marking an eventful journey since its official release in September 1991. Its inception and immense success would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of…
As a Linux administrator, you’ve got various tools to use to configure your network connections, such as nmtui, your NetworkManager with GNOME graphical user interface, and of course nmcli (network manager command line tool). I…
Fedora 39 was released on November 7, 2023, after a few delays. It is the latest version of the Fedora Linux distribution, which is known for its cutting-edge features and frequent releases. Fedora is a…