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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Wget utility is a popular and feature-rich command-line based file downloader for Unix-like operating systems and Windows OS. It supports non-interactive downloading of files over protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It’s designed...
Single User Mode (sometimes known as Maintenance Mode) is a mode in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux operate, where a handful of services are started at system boot for basic functionality to enable...
Systemd is a modern init system for Linux: a system and service manager which is compatible with the popular SysV init system and LSB init scripts. It was intended to overcome the shortcomings of...
In this tutorial, we will explain auxiliary file permissions, commonly referred to as “special permissions” in Linux, and also we will show you how to find files which have SUID (Setuid) and SGID (Setgid)...
Pip (recursive acronym for “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python“) is a cross-platform package manager for installing and managing Python packages (which can be found in the Python Package Index (PyPI)) that comes...
Normally while installing MySQL/MariaDB database server on Linux, it’s recommended to set a MySQL root user password to secure it, and this password is required to access the database server with root user privileges....
The current version of PHP in the CentOS 6 official repositories is PHP 5.3, which has reached its end of life and is no longer maintained (in terms of bug fixes and critical security...
PostgreSQL is a powerful, highly scalable, open source and cross-platform object-relational database system that runs on Unix-like operating systems including Linux and Windows OS. It is an enterprise level database system which is highly...
Cron is a powerful utility for time-based scheduling of jobs in Unix-like operating systems including Linux. It runs as a daemon and can be used to schedule jobs such as commands or shell scripts...
MySQL is a popular database management system while PHP is a server-side scripting language suitable for web development; together with Apache or Nginx HTTP servers, are the different components of the LAMP (Linux Apache...
