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 [...]
Linux Tools
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 [...]
How to Install JIRA on Ubuntu Linux
Developed by Atlassian, JIRA is a proprietary and comprehensive software tool mainly used for project management, issue tracking, and bug fixing. JIRA comes with an intuitive dashboard that helps you track issues. These issues could be software defects or bugs, [...]
How to Install Pip on CentOS 8
In this tutorial, we will install Python pip on CentOS 8 using the yum package manager and cover the basics of how to install and manage Python packages with pip. In the CentOS 8 repository AppStream, there are both pip [...]
Best Essential Apps for Linux (2019)
You might be a beginner looking to explore Linux and you are at a loss of what Apps you should essentially be using. So what are the best essential Apps for Linux? In this guide, we have put together a [...]
How to Use Curl Command with Examples [Download Files]
Curl is a wonderful tool available by default in UNIX based systems. It is a command line utility and a library. It is very useful while troubleshooting URL accesses and for downloading files. Curl supports a wide variety of protocols [...]
How to Extract tar xz File in Linux
In this tutorial, we will look at how you can compress and extract tar xz tarball files/directories with a .tar.xz file extension in Linux. The xz format is a single-file compression format that is based on the LZMA2 algorithm. It [...]
How to Use Google Drive on Ubuntu Linux
Its now 2020 and we are still waiting for official google drive client from google, but we have few clients that work flawlessly. In this tutorial, we'll focus on how to use Google Drive on Ubuntu 18.04. Ready? Let's dive in [...]
Dcp - Tool to Securely Transfer Files Between Linux Computers
Transfer files remotely has for a long time been a reserve of rsync and SCP protocols. In this article, we will take a look at how you can transfer files between Linux computers using dcp tool. dcp tool is a handy tool that [...]
What are the Best Youtube Video Downloader for Ubuntu
Downloading videos from Youtube to your PC comes in handy especially when you know you are going to be offline for long periods of time, for instance when you are catching a flight or a train. What's more is that [...]
Xrdp - Connect Ubuntu Linux Remote Desktop via RDP from Windows
How often do you access Linux Desktop? What tools do you use to access remote desktop? Xrdp is an open source tool which allows users to access the Linux remote desktop via Windows RDP. Apart from Windows RDP, xrdp tool also accepts [...]
How to Install Streamlink Twitch Gui on Arch Linux
Streamlink enables you to watch videos from various online video streams in popular video players like mpv, MPlayer, and VLC. Streamlink is a command-line tool written in Python, it was forked from Livestreamer but "Streamlink Twitch GUI' is a graphical version of [...]
How to Synchronize Directories Using Lsyncd in Linux
In this article, I'll explain how to install Lsyncd(Live Syncing Mirror Daemon) on Linux systems and how to synchronize remote and local directories in Linux. Lsyncd is a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install without hampering existing [...]
Terminalizer - Tool to Record Terminal Sessions on Linux
Have you ever thought about how you can record your Linux terminal? Terminalizer is a fancy and highly customizable CLI tool that records and renders terminal activity and can make an animated GIF image from it. It can work well [...]