Analyzing and monitoring the network traffic of an entire network infrastructure is a very important task for every Linux system administrator. Network admin needs to see what’s going on with the network, who’s using the bandwidth, and how their entire network infrastructure is handling the load. The good thing is there are many open-source network … Read more
Looking to set up a media server for your large collection of music, movies, pictures and TV shows? If so, you should consider Plex. It’s the most popular media server solution not just on Linux, but Windows, Mac and even Free BSD. Plex is a great tool and has a ton of great features like … Read more
There are many commands available to check hardware information of your Linux system. Some commands report only specific hardware components like CPU or memory while the rest cover multiple hardware units. This tutorial takes a quick look at some of the most commonly used commands to check information and configuration details about various hardware devices. … Read more
Xbox One is Microsoft’s 3rd game console. With this console, Microsoft focused heavily on not just gaming but media too. It can do just about any streaming service you can think of. It can even take in your cable box and allow you to watch television while playing video games. All of this is cool, … Read more
While we already know how to edit existing PDF files in Ubuntu, there are times when the requirement is to use all or some of the images contained in a PDF file. Manual copy-pasting is definitely an option, but it’s not a time-saving one, especially when the PDF file contains a large number of images. … Read more
Glances is a cross-platform command-line text-based tool to monitor your system. It is written in Python language and uses the psutil library to get information from the system. Using it you can monitor CPU, Load Average, Memory, Network Interfaces, Disk I/O, File System spaces utilization, mounted devices, total number of active processes and top processes. … Read more
The Google Chromebook is no stranger to modifications. Despite the fact that it’s a fairly locked platform, there are many projects dedicated to replacing the operating system that it ships with. All these projects are great, but they all have one thing in common – placing in a Linux distribution not designed from the ground … Read more
A graphics processing unit (GPU), also known as visual processing unit (VPU), is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to display. If you want to install the appropriate graphics card driver and get the graphics card to … Read more
Nmon (also known as Nigel’s Monitor) is a computer performance system monitor tool for the AIX and Linux operating systems developed by IBM employee Nigel Griffiths. The tool displays onscreen or saves to a data file the operating system statistics to aid in the understanding of computer resource use, tuning options and bottlenecks. This system … Read more
The Linux IP command is very similar to ifconfig, but it is more powerful. You can perform several network administration tasks using the IP command. Also, ifconfig is one of the deprecated commands that has not been maintained for many years even though it is still available on most Linux distributions. The IP command line … Read more