For Linux administrators, slay is a convenient tool to kill all processes belonging to a user. Slay comes in handy under various situations. For instance, as an administrator you notice a particular user running processes he is not permitted to. Or your room-mate is downloading a huge file or doing Read More
So you’ve installed CentOS on your computer and have it up and running without any issues. Good job! Now we can move to another key step in your CentOS learning adventure – Adding more repositories. For purposes of this post, it doesn’t matter whether you’ve installed the older CentOS 6.6 Read More
Some people live in a fool’s paradise, a ra ra island inaccessible to the rest of us fortunate elements inhabiting the mainland of sanity. Or at least so I thought when I heard Israeli hardware outfit CompuLab and LinuxMint (the folks behind the eponymous Linux distribution) had come together to Read More
It’s always good to keep an inventory of what packages are installed on your Linux server or desktop. Unfortunately there’s no single command here that does the trick on all Linux systems. Different Linux distributions require you to type different commands to display installed packages. Let’s take a deko at Read More
On the terminal, there are a plethora of commands that spit out answers to questions about the Linux kernel and/or the Linux distribution underpinning your system. Let’s take a deko at a few of them. Some of the below commands give only the distro, others mention just the kernel version Read More
Nothing panders to the insatiable human appetite for more, more and more than Linux and the broader open source ecosystem. Apart from the dozens of Linux distributions, there are a gazillion free open source applications ranging from databases to text editors to games and all the categories in between. Today, Read More