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Download of the day: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS CD / DVD ISO
Ubuntu Linux version 14.04 LTS (code named "Trusty Tahr") has been released and available for download. Ubuntu Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. The latest release of Ubuntu brings the...
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Secure Password Hashing for Python Developers
It is important to store the passwords of user accounts in a secure fashion. There have been many high profile incidents where a security breach resulted in hackers obtaining database dumps of user...
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Installing Tails Live Linux Operating System For Preserving Privacy and...
Nowadays, privacy does not hold much value when it comes to the privacy of our data on our digital devices or on the internet. In the past few weeks, we learned that everyone who tries to maintain...
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Linux Tutorial: Install Ansible Configuration Management And IT Automation Tool
Today I will be talking about ansible, a powerful configuration management solution written in python. There are many configuration management solutions available, all with pros and cons, ansible...
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5 Awesome Open Source Cloning Software
Cloning is nothing but the copying of the contents of a server hard disk to a storage medium (another disk) or to an image file. Disk cloning is quite useful in modern data centers for:Full system...
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Secure Your Linux Desktop and SSH Login Using Two Factor Google Authenticator
Two factor authentication is increasingly becoming a strongly recommended way of protecting user accounts in web applications from attackers by requiring a second method of authentication in addition...
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How To Use Vagrant To Create Small Virtual Test Lab on a Linux / OS X /...
Vagrant is a multi-platform command line tool for creating lightweight, reproducible and portable virtual environments. Vagrant acts as a glue layer between different virtualization solutions...
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8 Tips to Solve Linux & Unix Systems Hard Disk Problmes Like Disk Full Or...
Can't write to the hard disk on a Linux or Unix-like systems? Want to diagnose corrupt disk issues on a server? Want to find out why you are getting "disk full" messages on screen? Want to learn how to...
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5 Awesome Open Source Backup Software For Linux and Unix-like Systems
A good backup plan is essential in order to have the ability to recover fromHuman errorsRAID or disk failureFile system corruptionData center destruction and more. In this post I'm going to list...
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20 Unix Command Line Tricks – Part I
Let us start new year with these Unix command line tricks to increase productivity at the Terminal. I have found them over the years and I'm now going to share with you.Read post: "20 Unix Command Line...
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7 Awesome Open Source Cloud Storage Software For Your Privacy and Security
Cloud storage is nothing but an enterprise-level cloud data storage model to store the digital data in logical pools, across the multiple servers. You can use a hosting company such as Amazon, Google,...
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A Shell Primer: Master Your Linux, OS X, Unix Shell Environment
On a Linux or Unix-like systems each user and process runs in a specific environment. An environment includes variables, settings, aliases, functions and more. Following is a very brief introduction to...
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Learning bash scripting for beginners
Bash (Bourne-Again SHell) is a Linux and Unix-like system shell or command language interpreter. It is a default shell on many operating systems including Linux and Apple OS X. If you have always used...
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Collecting Ubuntu Linux System Information
For new computer or Laptop or server, I need to collect the information about its hardware. This is also useful when you need to replace a disk or memory with a vendor. In order to replace hardware you...
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Linux Server See the Historical and Statistical Uptime of System With tuptime...
You can use the following tools to see how long system has been running on a Linux or Unix-like system:uptime : Tell how long the server has been running.lastt : Show the reboot and shutdown...
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Display Awesome Linux Logo With Basic Hardware Info Using screenfetch and...
Do you want to display a super cool logo of your Linux distribution along with basic hardware information? Look no further try awesome screenfetch and linux_logo utilities.
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Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials
I have been a big fan of author, Michael W Lucus for years now. I love his Absolute OpenBSD book and have yet to read one better on OpenBSD. I am also a fan of his book Absolute FreeBSD so was looking...
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15 Useful Linux and Unix Tape Managements Commands For Sysadmins
Tape devices should be used on a regular basis only for archiving files or for transferring data from one server to another. Usually, tape devices are all hooked up to Unix boxes, and controlled with...
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Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery – ZFS
Once again a great FreeBSD book to read. I was anxious to read this after reading FreeBSD Mastery- Storage Essentials 2014. I read where he was writing a ZFS book, but didn't know it was out until I...
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Linux / Unix Desktop Fun: Christmas Tree For Your Terminal
Let us create Linux or Unix console Christmas tree just for fun and profit. First, you need to install a Perl module called Acme::POE::Tree. It is an animated Christmas tree module. I've tested this on...
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