If you visit Distrowatch regularly, you will notice that the popularity ranking barely changes from one year to another. There are distributions that will always make it to the top ten, whereas others may...
As 2016 comes to a close, it is time to bring you the best 10 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) programs I have come across during this year. Some of these programs may...
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Since Debian powers a large percentage of web servers all over the world, in this article we will explain how to install the LEMP (Linux + Nginx + MariaDB + PHP-FPM) stack on Debian...
In one of our several articles relating to Apache server security and hardening tips, we explained how to hide Apache version number and other sensitive information. We discussed how to keep away valuable information...
Systemd is a cutting-edge system and service manager for Linux systems: an init daemon replacement intended to start processes in parallel at system boot. It is now supported in a number of current mainstream...
Samba is a free/open source and popularly used software for sharing files and print services between Unix-like systems including Linux and Windows hosts on the same network. In this guide, we will show how...
CloudLayar is a website security tool that allows you to protect any domain from DNS-related attacks completely Free. CloudLayar was built with simplicity in mind so that every user could use the powerful protection...
Early this week (June 17, 2017), the Debian project announced the availability of the new stable version (Debian 9) codenamed Stretch. With this release, the well-known and widely-used Debian 8 Jessie gained old-stable status,...
In an earlier post, we’ve explained CPUTool for limiting and controlling CPU utilization of any process in Linux. It allows a system administrator to interrupt execution of a process (or process group) if the...
In our last article, we have put together a list of 13 best file managers for Linux systems, most of which where graphical user interface (GUI) based. But if you have a Linux distribution...
The Linux system boots so fast that most of the output scrolls by too quickly to read the text (showing services being started) sent to the console. Therefore observing boot issues/errors becomes a little...
In this article, we will explain swap space, and learn how to create swap space using a swap file in Linux: this is important in case we don’t have a swap partition created on...
