How to Install Open Visual Traceroute on Ubuntu 16.04
Open Visual Traceroute is a free and open source Java based visual traceroute and packet sniffer tool that can be used to display data in a 3D or a 2D map component. You can easily export data to image...
View ArticleHow to Configure AD Authentication with LDAP over Proxy with TLS/SSL
Both Active Directory (AD) and OpenLDAP play important roles in the enterprise. In fact, within the same company you’ll find the UNIX group using OpenLDAP and the LAN and Windows administrators using...
View ArticleHow to Install "stacer" Monitoring and Optimising Tool on Linux
Stacer is a GUI based open source resource monitoring and system optimizer tool for Linux. This app has a nice looking dashboard which provides CPU, Memory, Disk and System information. The new vesrion...
View Article5 Steps Start Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04 in Text Mode
The advantages of text modes as compared to graphics modes include lower memory consumption and faster screen manipulation. Text mode or console mode or command line mode saves a lot of RAM uses so...
View ArticleHow to Measure Internet Consumption from Linux Terminal
Nbwmon is a ncurses based bandwidth monitor tool that can be used to get detailed information like, transmitted and received traffic for a network interface. Nbwmon comes with lots of features some of...
View ArticleHow to Install Java 8 on Debian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch)
In this article, I will go through the process of installation of Java 8 on Debian 9 Stretch. Java comes in two flavors and we install both. OpenJDK is open source version that is compatible with most...
View ArticleHow to Setup Linux Version of MS SQL Server on Docker Container
This article explains how to setup and run Microsoft SQL server on containerised Linux Operating System. I will use the image available on Docker Hub to run a Docker container. An earlier version of...
View Article15 Linux Screen Command for Dealing Terminal Sessions
The screen is a terminal multiplexer. Using this, you can run any number of console-based-applications, interactive command shells, course-based applications, etc. You can use screen to keep running...
View ArticleHow to Disable Webcam and Microphone on Linux
With the growing numbers of laptop users, more and more people are connected to the world with built-in webcam and microphone. But It comes with a price. As the world is moving towards digitization,...
View ArticleHow to Schedule shutdown, restart, hibernate and log off Tasks in Linux
Hello Linux Geeks, Have you ever felt a need for shutdown, restart, hibernate, log off or even custom task execution automatically on a schedule? If you say yes, then We have graphical tool...
View ArticleHow to Install LEMP Stack on Debian 9 Stretch
In this article, we are going guide you to install LEMP stack to brand new Debian GNU/Linux 9 Stretch. LEMP stands for Linux, Nginx (as in Engine X), MySQL and PHP. From Debian 9, Mariadb is the...
View ArticleCipher - Command Line Tool to Encrypt/Decrypt Files and Directories
The security of data is a primordial preoccupation nowadays. With the new technologies (cloud computing, internet, etc.), we are more exposed and nothing guarantees that your data are safe unless you...
View ArticleHow to Configure PBIS to Join Ubuntu with Windows AD
In this article, we will install and configure PowerBroker Identity Services (PBIS) on the Ubuntu 14.04 in order to join together with Windows Active Directory. We also will consider how to remove...
View ArticleMethods to Add Repository on Debian 9 Stretch
Debian 9 is released recently, today we will see how to configure repository in Debian 9. Debian and Debian-based distributions (like Ubuntu, Linspire, Xandros, Knoppix and Mepis etc.) use a tool...
View ArticleHow to Configure Streaming Replication on PostgreSQL Instances
In this article, I will show you Postgresql installation and its streaming replication configuration of two PostgreSQL instances on different hosts. Our goal is to install Postgres 9.5 on master host...
View ArticleHow to Install "ripgrep" Tool in Linux
Ripgrep is a line oriented search tool which combines the usefulness of the silver searcher and the speed of GNU grep. It works by recursively searching the current directory path for a regex pattern...
View Article7 Steps to Install Nagios 4 on Debian 9
Nagios is an open source server and network monitoring tool which monitors some services (CPU, HTTP, SMTP, storage disk, temperature, etc) of your servers, network devices and alerts you when a...
View Article5 Steps to Install and Setup ProFTPD on Debian 9 Stretch
In this post, I will describe how to configure FTP server using ProFTP on Debian 9. It is a free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems. Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is...
View Article3 Brilliant Open Source Command Line Address Book for Linux
Modern computer systems employ various tools for managing contacts in our address books. With the proliferation of social media applications, this complexity has increased considerably and lacks the...
View ArticleTerminus - A Super Modern Terminal App for Linux
The terminal is the Linux tool which is mostly used and it sometimes appears as our default environment. We can need to tune it by modifying its appearance. So you can need to make it more attractive...
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