In Linux philosophy, running privileged tasks as the root user is highly discouraged. The reason is simple - all it takes is for the root user to run a fatal command and the entire system comes apart. For this reason, [...]
How to Install POP OS 20.04 LTS - Step by Step
POP! OS is based on Ubuntu, which is free and opensource Linux distribution. POP OS is developed and primarily maintained by system76. Like Ubuntu, long term released comes every 2 years and a new release comes every 6 months. Pop!_ [...]
How to Mount Windows Share on Ubuntu Linux
CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a popular file sharing protocol on Internet. It allows users on a Linux system access to a particular mount point on a windows share. CIFS is an implementation of SMB (Server Message Block) - [...]
Parted Commands to Manage Disk Partition
Parted is a free GNU utility used to manage hard disk partitions from the command line. It can create, delete, resize, and print disk partition, and more on Linux. More often we use parted tool for disk partitioning for running [...]
How to Create Home Directory for Existing User in Linux
By default when you create a user in Linux, users default home directory is created under /home. If you noticed on Ubuntu and Debian derivated distribution useradd command won't create a home directory by default. Let's think of s situation [...]
Linux Chgrp Command with Examples
In Linux permissions, all files including directories are associated with the user and group ownership. Additionally, the file and directories and usually assigned permissions that determine access rights such as read, write and execute that ultimately determine who has what [...]
How to Install TeamViewer on Ubuntu 20.04
TeamViewer is a cross-platform, proprietary application that allows a user to remotely connect to a workstation, transfer files, and have online meetings from any part of the globe over an internet connection. It works across multiple devices such as PC, [...]
How to Install Webmin on Ubuntu 20.04
Webmin is a web-based dashboard that allows sysadmins to manage Linux and Unix-like systems (especially servers). Webmin allows system administrators to manage user accounts, updating packages, system log files, configuring firewalls, email, database, postfix, etc. In this tutorial, we learn [...]
How to Install Nvidia Driver on Ubuntu 20.04
As Linux getting more user friendly, game developers are adding more support thanks to Steam. The performance of graphics processing units (GPUs) mainly depends on drivers. Ubuntu by default use open source video driver Nouveau which has limited support and [...]
How to Get CPU Temperature on Ubuntu Linux
Hardware overheating often creates a bad performance of your system. Monitoring hardware temperature can help you diagnose any CPU overheating problems of the system. The source of laptop overheating normally comes from extensive CPU, GPU (video cards), or hard disk [...]
How to Install FreeOffice (Latest) on Linux
Developed by Softmaker, FreeOffice is a good alternative to Microsoft Office suite that ships with a Word processor, a presentation and a spreadsheet application. It's free for download for most popular Linux distributions with either 32-bit or 64-bit architectures. FreeOffice [...]
Linux Cut Command with Practical Examples
The cut command is used in Linux and Unix systems to cut parts and sections from each line of a file and write the result to standard output. It can be used to cut parts of a line by byte [...]
How to Remove Linux User from a Group
A user can be a member of one primary and one or several secondary (supplementary) groups in Linux. The file '/etc/group' defines group membership for each user in the Linux system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to remove [...]
Install Python 3.7 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Python is one of the most popular and on-demand general-purpose programming language. It is an interpreted, high-level programming language that supports multiple programming paradigms which includes procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. It is often described as a "batteries included" language [...]