Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most frequently used file formats today. While it offers password protection, there are times when you might want to create an unsecured copy of a secured .pdf file, say for your personal use, so that you do not have to enter the password each time you open … Read more
Using RedHat based Linux distributions has quite a few benefits. They’re usually more rewarding for advanced users, the installation process gives you more options and the package manager is awesome. However, there is one major downside to using a Linux distribution like Fedora or OpenSUSE over Debian or Ubuntu – software availability. Since RedHat-based Linux … Read more
Looking to try out something new? Check out Budgie! It’s a fairly new desktop environment based on Gnome 3! It’s a beautiful piece of software created by the Evolve OS project. The main way to get Budgie is by using Evolve OS; however, it’s also possible to install Budgie on several different Linux distributions, including … Read more
If you are a network administrator, you’surely know the importance of network traffic monitoring. While there is some excellent GUI-based software available for this, if you’re dealing with command line and are looking for a command-line alternative, I’d suggest you try slurm. In this article, we will discuss the slurm command along with the features … Read more
If you have administered a Linux server before, you will be familiar with the commonly used LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack. However, Apache, MySQL and PHP can sometimes be resource intensive and may not be the best for your server. In this tutorial, we are going to replace each and every part of the … Read more
It seems that every year there’s a new music player for Linux. This is not necessarily bad, as it gives us a wider selection of software to choose from. Users can pick a lightweight player or try those that offer plenty of options and services. Cantata is one of the latter, and it has a … Read more
Network traffic monitoring not only helps administrators detect root causes of traffic related issues, like network overloading, but also helps them keep a tab on traffic flow to and from the Internet. Overall, it’s an important task that requires a dedicated and an effective software. For Linux, there are many GUI-based network traffic monitoring tools, … Read more
It’s an undeniable fact that logs play an important part in uncovering software or system problems as well as malicious activities. However, with so many log files and a lot of information in each of them, it gets a bit difficult for system administrators to analyse them properly. While there are many tools available that … Read more
4MLinux is a small Linux distribution that caters to the four M’s, which in this case are Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia, Miniserver and Mystery (i.e. games). Each of the M’s has its own special version of 4MLinux, so there is “4MLinux Server Edition,” “4MLinux Rescue Edition,” and so on. Or you can download … Read more
From the beginning of computers, they have always been protected by some sort of password so that the data inside the computer is safe and sound. Regardless of the protection, the common tech problem is that almost everyone is forgetting their user account password which essentially gives access to the computer and the data in … Read more