Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux By Les Pounder published 11 June 25 Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.
Learn How to Archive Files in Linux with TAR By Jo Hinchliffe published 10 June 25 In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.
Getting To Know the Linux Filesystem — Demystify the directories By Les Pounder published 10 June 25 It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn’t a maze of dead ends. Here’s the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.
How To Manage Linux Users via the GUI and Terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 10 June 25 Managing users in Linux is easy and we’ll show you how to use both the GUI and the terminal to add and remove users to and from different user groups.
How To Kill a Process in the Linux terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 9 June 25 Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.
How To Copy Files and Directories in the Linux terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 9 June 25 Copying files and directories using the Linux command line is efficient and can be used while sitting at the machine or when accessing a system remotely.
How To Find Files in the Linux terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 9 June 25 In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.
Automate common and boring tasks with Bash Scripts in Linux By Les Pounder published 9 June 25 Write your own scripts to automate the boring / complex tasks of your job.
How to turn an old PC into a Linux web server By Les Pounder published 5 June 25 Reusing older hardware as a web server is a great way to learn web development, server administration,
How to merge, extract images and digitally sign PDFs By Les Pounder published 1 June 25 PDF24 is a tool to create, edit, extract, insert and secure PDFs.
The Essential Linux commands that every user needs to know By Les Pounder published 30 May 25 All the Ubuntu / Debian Linux commands you need to copy files, install software, edit text and much, much more.
Use grep to search Linux files and directories smarter By Jo Hinchliffe published 23 May 25 Add grep to your Linux toolkit and slice through files, directories and console output to find the details that you need.
How To Manage User Passwords in Linux By Les Pounder published 23 May 25 Passwords are the keys to our digital lives. But we shouldn’t just hand over the keys to anyone, our passwords should be unique and changed regularly.
Run Linux scripts unattended with Nohup By Les Pounder published 22 May 25 Nohup is a command which prevents commands / scripts from stopping should we close a terminal window / SSH session.
Microsoft makes the Windows Subsystem for Linux open source after almost a decade of development By Les Pounder published 20 May 25 Now we can all develop new features for WSL
How To Zip Files in the Linux Terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 20 May 25 Compress files into a ZIP archive using the terminal emulator in Linux.
Damn Small Linux revived my aging Eee PC. Here’s how to use it to resurrect any old computer. By Les Pounder published 20 May 25 Elevate that Intel Celeron from 2007 from doorstop to functional PC with Damn Small Linux
How To Add, Remove and Update Software in Debian and Ubuntu Using Apt By Les Pounder published 19 May 25 Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint and Raspberry Pi OS use the Apt packaging application to manage software installations.
How To Hibernate your Linux computer: Unlike sleep, it uses no battery By Les Pounder published 17 May 25 Learn how to enable hibernation for your PC and laptop running Linux
How To Check Your Disk Usage in Linux By Jo Hinchliffe published 16 May 25 Explore how to check disk usage using the df and the du commands and learn how a variety of simple arguments can enhance your workflow.
How SSH into Remote Computers Using Windows, Linux or macOS By Les Pounder published 16 May 25 SSH is often taken for granted. It provides a simple and secure means to remotely connect to servers and devices enabling users to control a device from great distances.
How To Change File or Directory Permissions via the Linux Terminal By Jo Hinchliffe published 15 May 25 Use the chmod command to change permissions from the command line.
How to manage your Linux resources with Mission Center By Les Pounder published 10 May 25 Manage and review your Linux system resources, processes and apps using Mission Center.
How to View Your Command History in Any Linux Operating System By Jo Hinchliffe published 8 May 25 Often overlooked, history is an archive of all the commands that our user has typed. But what can we do with these commands and what tools can we use?
How To Monitor CPU and RAM Resources in Any Linux Distro By Les Pounder published 8 May 25 Keeping an eye on system resources is a must, no matter if you are using a Raspberry Pi or a multi-million dollar data center. We show you how to monitor your systems from the Linux command line.
