Linux monitoring tools to keep your hardware cool
Thermal stress can damage your computers. Learn how to monitor the internal temperatures of your computers tohelp you keep your hardware cool.
Linux Makes Computing Accessible for Everyone
Many of us need assistive technology for seeing and hearing in particular. There are other areas that we may not use but are useful to other folks who need help typing, pointing, clicking, and gesturing. And, fortunately for us, Linux makes computing accessible for everyone.
A Linux user’s guide to Logical Volume Management
Managing disk space has always been a significant task for sysadmins. Running out of disk space used to be the start of a long and complex series of tasks to increase the space available to a disk partition. Logical Volume Management makes these tasks easy and even unnecessary.
Serial communication on Linux
Learn to use the ancient serial communications hardware and software methods that are needed even today in many data centers.
Navigating the ‘top’ Command in Linux
When checking out Linux systems (or even troubleshooting computers running other operating systems), the top command provides information to assess the computer’s overall health.
It can give a quick overview of what is happening on servers or other Linux systems, including Raspberry Pi with a dynamic real-time view of a running system. But there is so much more to the top command than meets the eye.
Using sudo to delegate permissions in Linux (Updated)
Learn how to assign authority for managing network functions or specific services to trusted users while protecting the security of the root password.
Convert your Windows install into a VM on Linux
Here’s how I configured a VirtualBox VM to use a physical Windows drive on my Linux workstation.
Configure a Linux workspace remotely from the command line
Nearly everything can be done from the Linux command line, including remote configuration of desktops such as Xfce4.
Manage your APC battery backup system with this Linux command
Protect yourself from power incidents by running a simple utility: apcupsd.
How I customize my Linux window decorations
How I made minor modifications to the Alienware-Bluish theme on my Xfce desktop to suit my own aesthetic.
Monitoring Linux and Windows hosts with Glances
The Glances tool offers more information about system performance than other sysadmin monitoring tools.
4 open source tools for Linux system monitoring
Information is the key to resolving any computer problem, including problems with or relating to Linux and the hardware on which it runs. There are many tools available for most distributions. These tools can be used to obtain huge amounts of information.
Transfer files between your phone and Linux
Are you looking for a way to quickly copy files from your iPhone or Android mobile device to your Linux computer or from your Linux...
How I disabled IPv6 on Linux
Simplify your network by disabling IPv6.
systemd — #10: Analyze Linux startup performance
Use systemd-analyze to get insights and solve problems with Linux startup performance.
Diagnose connectivity issues with the Linux ping command
Networking is what makes the Internet, the cloud, file shares, media streaming, remote administration, printing, and much more possible. When something goes wrong, it can sometimes be challenging to diagnose. One of the most fundamental diagnostic tools for networked connectivity is the ping command.