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Web Server Setup Series - How To Setup And Manage Your Own Web Server

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Feb 8, 2018 10:07 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
?Today I am starting web server setup series. In this series of articles, I'll teach you how you can setup a web server or turn your own computer into a web server. I'll also teach you how you can manage your web server, increase server security and guard it against specific types of attacks.

Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Feb 6, 2018 4:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
?I have always found battery life with Linux to be relatively lesser than windows. Nevertheless, this is Linux and we always have something up our sleeves.

Store Files In An Encrypted Image

Imagine this scenario: you have files on your computer that you would much rather keep safe. Such files could contain sensitive data such as passwords and bank details. Keeping them on your computer is a convenient solution; however, if your computer was hacked or stolen, someone could easily access your files if your drive wasn’t encrypted. Passwords to unlock your PC are no object to someone who knows what they are doing, especially passwords that are ridiculously weak.

12 Practical Examples Of wget Command In Linux

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 30, 2018 1:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Wget is a useful GNU command line utility used to download files from internet. This utility can download the files from servers using popular protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and http://FTP. It runs in the background (non-interactive) and hence can be used in scripts and cron jobs. GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nikši? and currently, it is under Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah, and Giuseppe Scrivano.

Top 5 Linux Partition Managers

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 29, 2018 1:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
There are many programs out there that help users manage partitions on their drives. Some, like fdisk, are command-line tools. Others have a GUI (graphical user interface), like GParted. I shall demonstrate, today, five very good Linux partition managers, both graphical and text-only.?

Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Pop-up Blocker, Spectre Mitigations And Other Security Fixes

Yesterday Chrome 64 released with much awaited features and some security patches. Chrome is used by more than a billion users around the globe. Taking this in mind, chrome has implemented a stronger pop-up blocker.

Meltdown And Spectre Processor Vulnerabilities: Is It Time To Revive Open Source Alternative?

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 24, 2018 12:18 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Games, Linux
The beginning of the year 2018 brought new challenges in the form of Specter and Meltdown vulnerabilities in most of the processor architectures. In layman terms, both of these vulnerabilities allow hackers to steal sensitive data like passwords. This vulnerability is applicable to Intel, AMD, and ARM. This means the problem is universal as it affects almost all devices ranging from embedded devices, smartphones, desktops, and servers to supercomputers.

Top Linux And Open Source Stories Of Year 2017

The year 2017 has been an eventful year for open source community with highs and lows throughout the year. Open source and Linux continue to dominate with their presence from the mobile phones to supercomputers. Let's quickly go through some of the major events in the year 2017.

How To Install Themes Or Icons In Elementary OS

After installing Elementary OS, you may feel that you want to customize it to look more than Out-of-the-box system, and more of a personalized Operating system per se. It's very easy to install themes and icons for your Elementary OS. The process is pretty much the same as installing icons and themes in any ubuntu system since it is built upon Ubuntu.

How To Create Virtual Hosts On Apache Server To Host Multiple Websites

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 21, 2018 3:56 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
If you have apache installed, you probably know what localhost is. Localhost allows a single website to be hosted locally. However, when using virtual hosts, you can host multiple websites on the single server. The process is fairly simple and I will demonstrate it here itself.

PlayOnLinux For Easier Use Of Wine

PlayOnLinux is a free program that helps to install, run, and manage Windows software on Linux. It can also manage virtual C: drives (known as Wine prefixes), and download and install certain Windows libraries for getting some software to run on Wine properly. Creating different drives using different Wine versions is also possible. It is very handy because what runs well in one version may not run as well (if at all) on a newer version.

How To Install Windows 10 In Virtualbox On Linux

You might be a developer and just want to try out your application in a Windows environment, or just want the thrill of doing something in Windows 10. Well, the solution might be as easy as using Virtualbox to install windows 10 unlike installing it on your machine, which may bring may problems to your Linux installation such as grub being overwritten.

How To Boot Into Linux Command Line

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 15, 2018 2:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
The operating system makes use of swap space when its available physical memory (RAM) is running out due to ever demanding applications. In this situation, the operating system moves the inactive pages in physical memory to swap space.

How To Create Or Increase Swap Space In Linux

The operating system makes use of swap space when its available physical memory (RAM) is running out due to ever demanding applications. In this situation, the operating system moves the inactive pages in physical memory to swap space.

Remove GUEST Session From Ubuntu Login Screen

A guest session on Ubuntu allows having a temporary user account and access the Ubuntu machine. The desktop of a guest session looks like it does when a regular user logs in. Behind the scenes, Ubuntu controls the access privileges for a guest session.

Linux Phones That Could Not Survive

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 12, 2018 6:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Linux Enthusiasts have always wanted to get their favorite operating system in the palm of their hands. Just like our computers we wish to have robustness, customizability and the ability to do what we want on our phones too.

Ubuntu Releases Security Patch For Meltdown

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 10, 2018 11:48 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
In another article, I have covered what is Meltdown and Spectre and told you how critical it is for us Linux users. The Linux had been fixed immediately after the two flaws were discovered. But the Ubuntu maintained kernel was not updated against Meltdown and Spectre.

Best Linux Screenshot & Screencasting Tools

There comes a time you want to capture an error on your screen and send it to the developers or want help from Stack Overflow, you need the right tools to take that screenshot and save it or send it. There are tools in the form of programs and others as shell extensions for GNOME. Not to worry, here are the best Linux Screenshot taking tools that you can use to take those screenshots or make a screencast.

5 Differences Between Linux And Windows

Are you an entirely new computer user who just bought a PC and had Microsoft Windows pre-installed on it? Seeking out what’s beyond the realm of Windows Operating System, exploring curiously what Linux is and how it is different from the former one that already came with your computer when you purchased it. Or is it the other way around where Linux was the default Operating System on your computer?

LinuxAndUbuntu Review Of TrueOS A Unix Based OS

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 7, 2018 10:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Trust me, the name TrueOS takes me back to 1990s when Tru64 UNIX operating system made its presence. TrueOS is PC-BSD’s new unified brand built upon FreeBSD-CURRENT code base. Note that TrueOS is not a Linux distro but is BSD Unix.

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