Have you ever needed to view/edit a file or even open a directory that needs some administrative privileges? As a normal user, you will not be able to view or open or edit files and directories with administrative privileges. However, …
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The main difference between the Ubuntu Desktop version and the Server is that the Ubuntu Desktop is used for personal use. The Server edition can be used to serve up Applications, Websites, E-mail Servers, File shares, and more other services …
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When it comes to “file transfers”, there are myriad ways to do it. We already covered a decent amount of methods, including transferring files between the Windows and Linux systems, FTP, or File Transfer Protocol to move files between various …
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Eclipse is a free and open-source IDE designed with an intuitive UI and powerful features like auto cleanup, import format, and code comparison. Let’s install it on Ubuntu. If you are looking for a good IDE platform to design apps …
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Generally speaking, the forward Domain Name Server or DNS can be used to detect the associated IP address for a particular domain name. In contrast, the reverse Domain Name Server or “rDNS” is the process of determining the hostname associated …
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Sometimes while working with text files, you just need to add new text at the end of the file without deleting its content. This operation is called appending in Linux. In other words, to append text to a file means …
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Vi editor is short for the visual editor app and is a command-line based tool used as the default editor in almost all Linux distributions. It is similar to Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on macOS.
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Allow us to say that there are not as many applications for Linux compared to Microsoft Windows. Linux has a vast world of free and open-source applications (FOSS) that should get almost all of your work done, but if you’re …
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Microsoft’s interest in the open-source world has an exciting outcome; it allows you to run Linux on the Windows machine. You should be able to install a bash shell on Windows that will let you execute Linux commands on Windows!
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There are several ways of checking your Linux system disk space. You could use a third-party app that shows the available disk space or do it by command-line way via the Linux Terminal.
