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Symbolic links (or Symlinks) are files that act as shortcuts or references to another file or directory. Although different, roughly speaking, we can think of symbolic links as being similar to software shortcuts on the desktop: by clicking on them, we run a program that is stored elsewhere on the computer and, sometimes, even on another machine. But everything works so transparently that it looks like we’re clicking on the original executable.

Losing files is really annoying for all of us. Many think that the data they have just lost is gone for good and there is no way it can be retrieved or recovered. The good ne-ws is that there are toolsthat can do magic, .i.e. they may help recover these files.

Most Linux distros have Python already installed by default. To check this, open up your terminal and type in python3.6. You will notice that the cursor will change.

In you are running Ubuntu on a Virtualbox and you would like to use some features such as folder sharing, mouse pointer integration and clipboard access(for copy and paste), you would need to enable Guest Additions.

PulseAudio handles the sound that is emitted by your Linux application. It works like a proxy or a sound server which can manipulate the sound before it reaches your ears.PulseAudio has the ability to combine sounds from different sources (aka mixing). It can alter the sound format, decrease or increase sound channels, send the sound of one machine to another one.

Ubuntu 18.04 was possibly the most compatible and powerful of all Ubuntu versions. There are however some sound problems with certain types of hardware or even configurations.

MongoDB is an open source document-oriented database system based on NoSQL technology. It is compatible with the development of modern web applications.

Sometimes you need to share data files between your host computer and your Ubuntu virtualbox. In this tutorial, you will learn how to achieve this so that you will be able to access folders orfiles on your host computer from your Ubuntu virtualbox.

You have tried to remove a package in Ubuntu but to no avail ? In this short tutorial, we shall provide some tips using Ubuntu built-in utilities that may help remove a potentially broken package on your Debian OS.

In this short tutorial, you will see how to replace a string in one or multiple files on Linux/Ubuntu and similar distros. We will consider simple cases only in this article.

In this short tutorial, we cover see some simple commands that will help users learn how to open a file in linux or view its contents on the command line.

Youtube, Facebook, twitter and most web hosting providers are using MySQL. As an open source freely available (RDBMS) Relational Database Management System, MySQL is an essential component of almost every open PHP application. Joomla, Magento, WordPress and Drupal are are all relying on the reliability and robustness of MySQL to handle and process large numbers of complex SQL statements. Your website is most likely managed in the background by MySQL.

PDF(Portable Document Format) is probably the most reliable and efficient way to share documents and files over the virtual world. By being unable to edit easily, PDFs are the securest way to share documents over the virtual world.

In this short tutorial, you will learn how to send one-liner emails using sSMTP from your Linux Ubuntu/Debian terminal. But why on earth would we want to send Emails from the terminal ? Well there could be many reasons. For instance you would want to build an application which sends Emails …You will also be able to attach files to the Email.

In the article you will learn how to run and manage a docker container on Linux Ubuntu and similar distros. You will also be able to push a new image to Docker Hub

In Linux, when we work from the command line, it is often very convenient to be able to execute several commands in a single line. For example if you want to download, decompress and open the resulting folder, you would execute a single command line as follows:

in Unix and Linux, there are many security built-in features. One such feature is related to files and who should be allowed to manipulate them. Since everything is a file in Unix and Linux, a potential security threat can arise if incorrect file permissions are assigned to classified files, be it a directory, a device or a file

One of the most popular software enabling computers to be controlled remotely is TeamViewer, but there are many other options that are available as well, which have just as many features (desktop sharing, online conferences, and data transfers). Since TeamViewer dominates the major online users, it has long ranked number one by many users.

For users who work with the command line in Linux most of the time, it could be convenient to view images within their terminal session. In this article we will cover some command line applications that enable users to display images in the terminal. Make sure to protect your eyes from your screen’s damaging blue rays while reading the article

Have you ever encountered a situation in which you were unable to download any package on your Linux machine ? Or you might have probably seen an error like package not installed? This kind of error can easily be fixed with a command like “sudo apt install –f”. On rare occasions, you may have experienced a broken pipe error.