Bobbin Zachariah

About Bobbin Zachariah

Founder of Linoxide, passionate lover of Linux and technology writer. Started his career in the year 2000 as a computer science instructor, worked as Linux system engineer and senior analyst roles. He has gained 17 years of experience in different Linux distributions like RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and open-source tools. He is certified in RHEL, CCNA, and MCP and holds a Masters's in computer science. When free time loves traveling, blogging and listening to music and a member of Redhat enable sysadmin. Bobbin Zachariah on his about me page.

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How to Use Snap Packages in Linux

LINUX COMMANDS, PACKAGE MANAGERS

Snap (snappy) is a software deployment and package management system for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. It was introduced by Canonical since version Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Snap software are self-contained packages with all dependent libraries included that makes installation much [...]

How to Install Java (OpenJDK) on Ubuntu 20.04

UBUNTU

Java is one of the most well-known programming languages for building different kinds of applications such as Jenkins, Tomcat server, IntelliJ IDEA, and many other system software. This tutorial will show you the way to install various versions of Java, [...]

How to Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 20.04

UBUNTU

Eclipse is one of the most popular open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for software developers. It is popular for Java-based applications, also used for C/C++, PHP, and Perl and other web projects. Eclipse is a really powerful IDE that [...]

How to Install Chrome Browser on Ubuntu [Easy Steps]

UBUNTU, WEB BROWSERS

Google chrome is a cross-platform web browser which considered as the best among other browsers. Chrome is not an open-source browser hence its not available on Ubuntu Software Center. Where chromium is the open-source version of chrome which had fewer features. [...]

Grub Rescue Commands to Fix Boot Issues

BOOTING, LINUX HOWTO

GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader. It is the first software program which be run when your computer starts. The bootloader is in charge of loading and booting the operating system kernel. GRUB is the default bootloader for Linux kernel-based [...]

How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

CONTAINERS, UBUNTU

Docker is an open-source platform that enables software developers to build, deploy and manage containerized applications. It means the applications are packaged into container which is combination of source codes, libraries and other dependencies required to run in any operating [...]

How to Mount Windows Share on Ubuntu Linux

LINUX HOWTO, NETWORK, UBUNTU

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

LINUX COMMANDS

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

LINUX HOWTO

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 [...]

Wait Command in Linux with Examples

LINUX HOWTO

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 [...]

How to List Mounted Drives on Linux

LINUX COMMANDS

In this tutorial, I will show you the different ways to list mounted drives on Linux. We can use mount, findmnt, and df commands to list mounted device any Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Centos. In Linux, mount command mounts [...]

RPM Commands in Linux with Examples

HOWTOS, LINUX COMMANDS, LINUX HOWTO

RPM(Redhat Package Manager) is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages. This tutorial I will explain some of the most common Linux rpm commands for a system admin. Some of the [...]

How to Customize Shell Variable PS1-PS4 on Bash Prompt

HOWTOS, LINUX HOWTO

You can see the real beauty of Linux when you use shell commands. There are some tasks which you cannot do in GUI and you have to use the shell. So having knowledge in shell commands, it will keep you [...]