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Ubuntu allows you to customize your long and rugged bash commands by using short and pleasant aliases as a replacement. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and use an alias against a command in Ubuntu.

KVM or Kernel-Based Virtual Machine provides a virtual environment used for running one or more additional operating systems besides the primary system without interfering with its functions. In this tutorial, we will describe how to install and use a virtual machine using the open-source virtualization platform-KVM.

This article shows you how to enable/disable automatic login to your Ubuntu system through the command line and through the graphical interface.

Just as Internet Protocol address or IP address gives an identification to your device, similarly, the hostname is another parameter through which you can recognize your device. This tutorial shows you 3 ways how you can display the hostname on the Linux shell.

Whenever you are asked to type a password in Ubuntu terminal, you insert your password without getting any visual display or a feedback from the screen. In such a situation, there are the chances that you may mess up with your password by entering it wrongly.

A display or login manager is the component of your Operating system responsible for launching your display server and the login session. This tutorial compares several commonly used display manages and shows how to install them.

With the release of Ubuntu’s latest operating system, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, creating a hotspot is easier than ever before. With a wifi hotspot, you can let other wireless devices such as smartphones and televisions etc. make use of your computer’s internet connection.

This tutorial shows you how to add and manage user accounts and groups effectively on Ubuntu 18.04 trough GUI and on the Shell.

While working with the Terminal, we sometimes require copying a long command, file name or text from the web. In this tutorial we will show you how to do so through a few examples we ran on Ubuntu 18.04.

In this article, we will show you how to install and use htop to monitor processes in Ubuntu. Htop is a Linux command line tool with a functionality that is similar to Windows Task manager.

As software testers, we sometimes need to know how a zombie process looks like on our system. If there is no zombie process running on your system, you can create a dummy for testing purposes as described in this article.

This tutorial shows you how to run programs at a specific time or in a given interval on Ubuntu by using the crontab. In this example, we will set up a backup job with the tar command to run once a week.

Many times it happens that you feel the need of knowing the IP address of your device. Following are the four methods through which you can find the IP address of your device.

A terminal emulator is an application used to run bash commands, work with files, communicate with other computers, perform administrative tasks and configurations, etc., all in textual form. This tutorial will show you how to replace the default Gnome Terminal Emulator with Xterm.

A zombie or a defunct process in Linux is a process that has been completed, but its entry still remains in the process table due to lack of correspondence between the parent and child processes. This guide shows how to get rid of these stalled processes.

All operating systems with network support have a hosts file in order to translate hostnames to IP addresses. This tutorial explains what the hosts file on Linux is used for and how to edit it.

A Linux Administrator should be able to read and understand the various types of messages that are generated by all Linux systems in their log files in order to troubleshoot an issue. This tutorial shows how to view system logs on Ubuntu Linux via desktop applications and on the shell.