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GNOME Pomodoro New Features

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Dec 25, 2018 1:12 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
GNOME Pomodoro is a time and focus management app which improves productivity and quality of work by balancing between work and rest time. If you want to learn more about this app, click here to read the article about it in detail.

Introduction To Ansible

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Dec 24, 2018 11:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Whenever possible, we should automate the tasks we perform. Automate tasks will make it easy to perform them, allowing us to do all the deployments of an application that we want with fewer possibilities of committing manual errors or it will allow us to have a new machine provisioned exactly as the production machine can be in much less time. In the field of machine provisioning and IT infrastructure management, there are several options, including Chef, Puppet and Ansible.

Rsync - Best Tool To Sync Files Between Devices (Mainly Servers)

rsync is a Linux CLI to copy or sync files between location A and B where location A and B can differ from network, host or device type. It is used at most by system admins to copy or move files through the network and even works on local files.

Connecting To A Proxy Server - Part 2

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Dec 12, 2018 3:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Linux
Previously, We have seen what a proxy server is, it's advantages and some web that tells you about your connection. However, you must be clear that proxy and VPN are not the same and that a proxy server does hide your IP but does not eliminate more identifying data. Next, we are going to show you how to connect to a proxy.

Connecting To A Proxy Server - Part 1

In this series, we will detail how to connect to a proxy web server in order to be able to browse anonymously. This series is related to the post on how to connect to a VPN that Mohd Sohail wrote in the past and you can read that here.

47 GNU/Linux Distributions For Your Desktop, Old Computer, Hobbies Or Raspberry Pi

The world of GNU/Linux distributions is a world full of open source and mostly free operating systems, all of them based on the same core. If you are thinking about giving some of them a chance, here are 47 GNU / Linux distributions series so you can find the one that best suits what you are looking for.

Snap Application Permissions

We have already written about snaps and its advantages against other packaging application system. If we compare RPM and DEB packages to snaps we can see on snaps automatic background updates allowing up-to-date applications, with bugs fixes more frequently.

Decisions | A Way To Make BASH Program Intelligent - Learn BASH | Part 4

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 25, 2018 12:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Welcome to the fourth chapter of BASH scripting series in which we will discuss the topic, decisions. Like a human being making decisions throughout the day, computers too need to decide on the best possible route when executing stuff from time to time. It has to consider whether a certain line of statements is necessary to be executed or not, based on a condition. In computer programming, the condition is usually tested on boolean values; either true or false.

Password Hashing And Why We Need It

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 24, 2018 12:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security
As a web developer, you must have come across the term password hashing at least once. Let us quickly understand what is password hashing and why we even need it.

PHP 5.x Security Support Ends In December 2018 Puts 60%+ Websites On Risk

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 23, 2018 12:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Basically, in 10 weeks we will have more than half of the websites exposed to potential security problems if after the new year there is a vulnerability in PHP 5.x.

Tags And Sub-modules - Git Series Part 6

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 18, 2018 5:52 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
This is the final guide in the Git series. Here, we will be covering two more major features that Git has to offer: tags and sub-modules. If you have been following the previous guides, and other materials, you should have a clearer understanding of what Git is, what it does, how to use it best, and how to troubleshoot. Here is a list of many of the aspects we have covered in this series:

10 Linux Commands For Network Diagnostics

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 15, 2018 1:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
It is difficult to find a Linux computer that is not connected to the network, be it server or workstation. From time to time it becomes necessary to diagnose faults, intermittence or slowness in the network. In this article, we will review some of the Linux commands most used for network diagnostics.

Installing Vundle: The Plugin Manager For Vim

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 11, 2018 4:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Today, this guide will present a step-by-step guide of how to install and configure Vundle (Vim Bundle) from GitHub, and what issues you may face when installing Vundle. As many of you may know, vim is a console-based text editor that has numerous advanced features. One such feature is that its functionality can be extended and customized using plugins written by other people. Managing these plugins, however, can be rather tedious. Vundle attempts to assist users in managing these plugins for you by providing an interface.

Comments In BASH - Learn BASH | Part 3

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 10, 2018 9:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Welcome to chapter three of BASH scripting series. Today we'll dive into a very important topic in programming called comment. Comment, in programming, is somewhat different from the online world of the Internet where you read an article or a blog and then throw some of your opinions or applaud the author in the comment section.

How To Install Kali Linux Tools In Ubuntu

Today I am going to do a quick demonstration of how to easily install a suite of security testing tools from Kali Linux onto a Ubuntu machine. For a bit of background information, Kali Linux is a distribution derived from Debian. Its sole purpose is to provide a suite of tools for penetration testing (pentesting) and forensics. It is provided by Offensive Security, an organization dedicated to providing security training. There is a very long list of tools available for Kali. Such tools include (but are not limited to) forensics, vulnerability checks, access checks, and stress testing.

Rclone - An Rsync Alternative To Sync File With Online Cloud Storage

Backup and Sync are have become essential today and this brings tools like rsync. Rsync is an amazing tool to sync files between 2 computers. But wouldn’t it be cooler if we could sync files from a computer to a cloud storage. This is where rclone - a mod of rsync comes in. Rclone can sync files from your computer to cloud-based storage services including google drive, one drive, drop-box, amazon drive and many more.

Red Hat - How An Open Source Software Company Became 34,000 Million Dollars Company

In a historic milestone, Red Hat, the company that triumphed with Linux and open source has been acquired by IBM for 34,000 million dollars, the largest transaction in history for a software company.

Wonderwall: Cool Wallpaper Program For Linux

Wonderwall is a snap app cool wallpaper program for Unity and GNOME Desktop Environment. Its simplistic user interface allows the user to easily browse, download and install wallpapers on his Ubuntu desktop. The program provides high-resolution images which are suitable for modern widescreen monitors. However, it is still in its infancy so certain features are still buggy but not critical enough to negatively impact the program's functionality.

How Linux Makes Life Easier

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Nov 4, 2018 7:13 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This article is about how Linux simplifies various things from software installations, to secure repositories to an easy to use terminal. We divided the Making life easier with Linux article into three parts so that we could carter for three groups of computer users; A novice, a professional and a developer.

Best Projects Created With Raspberry Pi - Part 10

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Oct 29, 2018 4:44 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Raspberry PI is rated as one of the best computing devices for the dynamic world of prototype experimentation and Do-It-Yourself projects. The PI is a very versatile computer praised for its ability to enhance computing activities in any niche from astronomy, computer science to environmental science.

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