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Linux Tutorials Jan 21, 2018 5 min read

How To Install Themes Or Icons In Elementary OS

After installing Elementary OS, you may feel that you want to customize it to look more than the Out-of-the-box system, and more of a personalized Operating system per se. It’s very easy to install themes and icons for your Elementary OS. The process is pretty much the same as installing icons and themes in any ubuntu system since it is built upon Ubuntu. The two ways include: 1. Using PPAs and packages to install the theme and icons. 2. Manually installing themes on your system.

Linux Tutorials Jan 21, 2018 3 min read

How To Create Virtual Hosts On Apache Server To Host Multiple Websites

If you have apache installed, you probably know what localhost is. Localhost allows a single website to be hosted locally. However, when using virtual hosts, you can host multiple websites on a single server. The process is fairly simple and I will demonstrate it here itself. I am assuming you are running Ubuntu with the apache server. Step 1 Move to the directory called /etc/apache2/sites-available You will see a file called 000-default.conf, we need to copy that file to the

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Linux Tutorials Jan 17, 2018 6 min read

How To Install Windows 10 In Virtualbox On Linux

You might be a developer and just want to try out your application in a Windows environment, or just want the thrill of doing something in Windows 10. Well, the solution might be as easy as using Virtualbox to install windows 10 unlike installing it on your machine, which may bring may problems to your Linux installation such as grub being overwritten. What you will require: 1. Windows 10 ISO file (or a CD/DVD containing Windows 10) 2. Virtualbox installed on your machine. 3. Lo

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Linux Tutorials Jan 15, 2018 2 min read

How To Boot Into Linux Command Line

There may be times where you need or want to boot up a Linux system without using a GUI, that is with no X, but rather opt for the command line. Whatever the reason, fortunately, booting straight into the Linux command-line is very simple. It requires a simple change to the boot parameter after the other kernel options. This change specifies the runlevel to boot the system into. Why Do This? If your system does not run Xorg because the configuration is invalid, or if the display m

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Linux Tutorials Jan 14, 2018 5 min read

Swap Space in Linux: How To Increase Swap Space In Linux

So it has been long since you started using Linux. Now that you’re enjoying what Linux has to offer, one of the things you often come across is the Swap Space. In this article, I will discuss Swap Space in Linux, its importance, when it’s required, and how beneficial it is. I will also discuss how we can set up and manage swap space in Linux. * What is Swap Space in Linux? * Benefits of Swap Space * Do I really need Swap space? * Swap space as Partition or file? * W

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Linux Tutorials Jan 12, 2018 2 min read

Remove GUEST Session From Ubuntu Login Screen

A guest session on Ubuntu allows having a temporary user account and access the Ubuntu machine. The desktop of a guest session looks like it does when a regular user logs in. Behind the scenes, Ubuntu controls the access privileges for a guest session. The official definition of guest session goes as follow: This package adds support for starting a guest session through gdm’s flexiserver, which any already logged in user can launch. It creates a temporary guest account with a temporary

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Linux Tutorials Dec 31, 2017 5 min read

Making Vim Even More Awesome With These Cool Features

Vim is quite an integral part of Every Linux Distribution and the most useful tool (of course after the terminal) for Linux Users. At least, this theory holds for me. People might argue that for programming, Vim might not be a good choice as there are different IDEs or other sophisticated text editors like Sublime Text 3, Atom, etc. which make the programming job pretty easier. My Thoughts But what I think is that Vim works the way we want it to the right from the very start, whil

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Linux Tutorials Dec 28, 2017 7 min read

Dual Boot Ubuntu And Arch Linux

Dual booting Ubuntu and Arch Linux is not as easy as it sounds, however, I’ll make the process as easy as possible with much clarity. First, we will need to install Ubuntu then Arch Linux since it’s much easier configuring the Ubuntu grub to be able to dual boot Ubuntu and Arch Linux. Dual Boot Ubuntu And Arch Linux Some of the things you will need: 1. Ubuntu flavor of your choice, in this case, I’ll use ubuntu 17.10 iso 2. 2 USB sticks 3. Windows PC or Linux based PC 4.

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Linux Tutorials Dec 26, 2017 2 min read

speedtest-cli - Internet Speed Test In Linux Terminal

I doubt there is a better alternative to Ookla’s speedtest when it comes to testing our internet speed. Once in a while, we all like to test our internet speed by visiting their website. Wouldn’t it be a lot cooler if we could test our internet speeds by using speedtest.net without having to visit their website right from the terminal? So here we have speedtest-cli the command line utility for testing your internet speeds with speedtest.net. How to install Speedtest CLI in Linux?

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Linux Tutorials Dec 11, 2017 3 min read

What Are Zombie Processes And How To Find & Kill Zombie Processes?

If you are a regular Linux user, you must have encountered the term ‘Zombie Processes’. So what are the Zombie Processes? How do they get created? Are they harmful to the system? How do I kill these processes? Keep reading for the answers to all these questions. What are Zombie Processes? So we all know how processes work. We launch a program, start our task & once our task is over, we end that process. Once the process has ended, it has to be removed from the processes table.

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Linux Tutorials Nov 27, 2017 7 min read

Install Ubuntu Server 16.04 For Setting Up Your Own Media Server

If you’re a Linux user (which is likely if you’re a reader of this blog), you probably know that Linux dominates the server market. The servers that power the internet, store data backups, and stream your favorite online videos, are all highly likely to be running some flavor of Linux. While the usual flavor of choice for these ventures is typically Red Hat Enterprise Linux or it’s less expensive cousin CentOS, Ubuntu Server has also carved out its own territory in data centers around the wor

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Linux Tutorials Nov 18, 2017 3 min read

Boot Linux ISO From Android Phone

The Thing about us Linux users is that we are never committed to one particular distro. We are always looking for something new, something more exciting. It may be a new Desktop Environment, a newer kernel or a completely different Linux experience. This is why we always keep testing newer versions of popular Linux distributions or completely new distributions as soon they are launched. But the problem arrives when we have to keep making a bootable USB for every distro that we

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