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Your computer name, in technical terms, is also referred to as the hostname of your computer system. In this article, we will give a few simple ways to change your computer name through the graphical user interface and the command line.

In this article, we will explain in detail how to use the apt utility in order to manage packages on Ubuntu Linux command line.

In this article, we will explain how you can conveniently extract audio in wav format from your m4v video files on an Ubuntu system. The commands and procedures described in this tutorial have been run on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

This tutorial is about installing and configuring the well known and secure VsFTPD (Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon) server on your Ubuntu system.

As Linux users, we sometimes need to know which port number a particular process is listening upon. All ports are associated with a process ID or service in an OS. So how do we find that port? This article presents three different methods for you to find which port number a process is listening on.

The Vim editor can be called a programmer’s text editor. In this article, we will explain the installation of the Vim Editor and then use it to create and open encrypted files.

This article explains the cal and ncal commands in detail along with the options you can use with them.

The Webmin console is your answer to on-the-fly management of Linux as an administrator. You can use any web browser to setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing, and much more. In this article, we will describe a step-by-step installation of Webmin on your Ubuntu system.

This article shows you four ways to use the web through the Linux Terminal by explaining ways to install and use the Terminal as a web-browser.

When the physical memory or RAM on our system is full, we end to make use of the swap space on our systems. In this article, we will describe a few ways to check for available swap space on your Ubuntu system.

This tutorial shows how to Install OpenJDK, Oracle Java and Java SE Development Kit on Ubuntu and how to set the default Java version used by applications.

Our systems also maintain a list of DNS records so that we can access our frequently visited websites faster through quick resolution of IP addresses. This cache on our system needs to be flushed from time to time. So let us see how we can flush the DNS cache on our Ubuntu Systems.

In this article, we will explain how to change the current time zone of an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system through the command line and through the GUI.

As you become a regular and veteran Ubuntu user, you might notice a decline in the speed of your Ubuntu system over time. In this article, I will show several ways to speed up your Ubuntu system that have worked for me over years.

As Linux users, we sometimes need to change the MAC address of our network adapters. This process is also called spoofing or faking a MAC address. This article explains how to change a MAC address through a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

In this tutorial, we will describe how to change the Ubuntu Desktop theme in order to customize the desktop by using the GNOME Tweaks utility.

XAMPP stands for cross-platform(X), Apache(A) server, MariaDB(M), PHP(P) and Perl(P). It is built by Apache Friends and basically serves as a local host or a local server. In this article, we will describe a step-by-step method for installing this application stack on your system.

Time and again, we need to format a USB drive in order to change the file system, to completely wipe off the data, or to get rid of a virus infecting it. There are various ways to format a USB drive, and we have listed a few in this article so that you can see which one works for you.

Image Capturing is a powerful feature especially when it comes to sharing technical how-to’s, blogs, tutorials and workarounds over the Internet. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install/uninstall this tool and also list some basic functions that you can perform with Shutter.

In this article, we will use various examples to customize and recolor the prompt of our Terminal application that will enable you to do the same depending on your needs.