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 [...]
How to Install RPM on CentOS
Usually, a user installs packages using the yum command line utility. The official CentOS repositories contain thousands of RPM packages, but in some cases, you may come across an RPM file that is not in any repository. Some software authors [...]
Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts that Every User Should Know
Regardless of whatever Operating system you are using, keyboard shortcuts have come in handy and help in saving time and energy when launching applications or navigating to your desired window. Just like in Windows, there are Ubuntu hotkeys that you [...]
Wait Command in Linux with Examples
Wait is a shell command that waits for a given process to complete, then returns its exit status. Wait command is used to wait either particular process ID and job ID and return their termination status. When executing the big [...]
MySQL Create User Accounts and Grant Privileges
MySQL is arguably one of the leading and widely used opensource database management systems. It's the preferred relational database management system of choice in most web hosting companies and other cloud providers. In this tutorial, we will look at how [...]
How to Install PHP 7 on CentOS 7
PHP is a popular, free and opensource scripting language used mainly for web development. At the moment the current version of PHP (at the time of writing this tutorial) is PHP 7.3.14. However, CentOS 7 ships with PHP 5.4 by [...]