How to Setup an L2TP/IPsec VPN Client on Linux
L2TP (which stands for Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) is a tunneling protocol designed to support virtual private networks (VPN connections) over the internet. It is implemented in most if not all modern operating systems...
Polo – A Modern Light-weight File Manager for Linux
Polo is a modern, light-weight and advanced file manager for Linux, that comes with a number of advanced features that are not present in many commonly used file managers or file browsers on Linux...
How to Install MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
MySQL is the most popular, free and open-source relational database management platform, which is used to host multiple databases on any single server by allowing multi-user access to each database. The latest MySQL 8.0...
How to Create Ansible Plays and Playbooks – Part 5
In this Part 5 of Ansible Series, we will explain how to create Ansible Plays and Playbooks using Ansible modules. Ansible ships with standalone scripts called modules that are used in playbooks for the...
How to Watch TCP and UDP Ports in Real-time
In software terms, especially at the operating system level, a port is a logical construct that identifies a specific process/application or a type of network service and each network service running on a Linux...
How to Install Linux Mint 19 Alongside Windows 10 or 8 in Dual-Boot UEFI Mode
Linux Mint 19.2 has been released in wild by the Linux Mint project development team as a new long term support edition which will receive support and security updates until 2023. This tutorial will...
Installation Guide of Linux Mint 19.2 Codename ‘Tina’ with Screenshots
Linux Mint is a modern, polished, easy-to-use and comfortable community-driven GNU/Linux desktop distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is a great and recommended distribution for computer users switching from Windows or...
How to Install netstat Command in Linux
Netstat – derived from the words network and statistics – is a command-line utility used by system administrators for analyzing network statistics. It displays a whole manner of statistics such as open ports and...
How to Disable SELinux on CentOS 8
SELinux or Security-Enhanced Linux is a mechanism or security module that provides access control security policies. In simple terms, it’s a feature or service used for restricting users to certain policies and rules set...
How to Install and Use dig and nslookup Commands in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to install the dig command and nslookup command on Linux. These commands are used for network troubleshooting and gathering information about domain names. Dig, short for Domain...
How to Disable IPv6 in CentOS 8
An internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an identifier of a network interface that’s involved in an IPv6 computer network. If you don’t want to use Ipv6 addressing, you can opt to disable it...
How to Run a Command with Time Limit (Timeout) In Linux
Linux comes with a bounty of commands, each command unique and used in specific cases. The goal of Linux is to help you be as fast and efficient as possible. One property of a...
How to Install Curl in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to install the curl command-line tool for transferring data to and from a server using various types of requests. It’s an alternative to downloading files other than...
How to Install Wget in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to install wget non-interactive network downloader in Linux. Wget is a tool developed by the GNU project used for retrieving or downloading files from web or FTP...
How to Disable NetworkManager in CentOS/RHEL 8
In Linux, the Network Manager is a daemon that handles the detection of active networks and configuration of network settings. When up and running, the network manager automatically detects active network connections, where wireless...
How to Install htop on CentOS 8
If you are looking to monitor your system interactively, then the htop command should be one of your best options. An improvement of its predecessor top command, htop is an interactive process viewer and...
Top 15 Best Security-Centric Linux Distributions of 2019
Being anonymous on the Internet is not particularly the same as surging the web safely, however, they both involve keeping oneself and one’s data private and away from the prying eyes of entities that...
6 Best Arch Linux Based User Friendly Distributions of 2019
If you’re an avid Linux user you probably know by now that it is no Operating System for the weak at heart (well sometimes). The chances of you getting crushed when trying to install...
How to Set Up Automatic Updates for CentOS 8
The best thing you can do for your data and machine is to keep them secure. It can be as easy as turning on updates. However, most people using CentOS 8 don’t know how...
How to Upgrade CentOS 7 to CentOS 8
In this article, you will learn how to upgrade CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. The steps described herein do not depict the official upgrade and this should not be applied to a production server...