Author Archives: Farzand Ali

The short answer is that terminal = text input/output environment console = physical terminal shell = command line interpreter In the linux world they can all look the same from the point of view of the user at the keyboard. The differences are in how they interact with each other. The shell is the programContinue reading “Difference between terminal and console”

GNOME Shell GNOME is one of the oldest Linux desktop environments, and certainly one of the most popular. GNOME—specifically GNOME Shell, the most recent iteration of the platform—has been designed to be easy to use, modern looking and attractive, and easy to customize and personalize. The break between GNOME 2 and GNOME Shell (the UIContinue reading “Linux Desktop Environments and Desktop Managers”

This tutorial’s intention is to teach newbies how to download, install and remove software in Ubuntu. I know this tutorial is for newbies like my Grandmother, but if we geeks don’t help newbies, who is going to help them? When I first heard about Ubuntu I didn’t even know how to delete items. I wasContinue reading “Ubuntu Software Center – Install And Remove Applications”

Linux is embedded in: Roku Chromebooks Kindle Android Phones PS4 runs Orbis OS, a modified version of FreeBSD that’s similar to Linux ESXi Factory autmation Raspberry Pi Mars Rovers Linux Firewalls: Smoothwall PfSense Monowall Major open source applications: Apache Libre Office Samba NFS MySQL Postfix Firefx OpenOffice THunderbird Chromium Webmin SSH Clients Mobile Browsers CContinue reading “Major Open source (Linux) Applications”

Introduction Webmin is a web-based system administration tool for Unix-like systems. It provides an easy alternative to command line system administration and can be used to manage various aspects of a system, such as users and services, through the use of the provided Webmin modules. If you want to manage your own server but youContinue reading “How To Install Webmin with SSL on Ubuntu 14.04”

phpMyAdmin is an open source tool used for the administration of MySQL. In addition to offering the capability to perform administration tasks such as creating, editing, or deleting databases, and managing users and permissions, phpMyAdmin provides a graphical user interface to do all of these tasks and more. Pre-Flight Check These instructions are intended specificallyContinue reading “How to Install and Configure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 14.04”

Meet MySQL MySQL is an open-source relational database. In a nutshell, for those unfamiliar with it: A database is where an application keeps its stuff. To break it down a little further, “relational database” is a term that refers to how data is organized and accessed within the database. The “SQL” part refers to theContinue reading “Installing MySQL Server on Ubuntu”

How To Install KVM On Ubuntu And Run Virtual Machines Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) is one of the popular virtualization solutions available today to run guest  Operating Systems (Virtual Machines) on a Linux hosts (Physical Machines). Few other popular alternatives are Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Player / Workstation and Xen. In this article, we will focusContinue reading “How To Install KVM On Ubuntu And Run Virtual Machines”

If you’re using Linux, you don’t need VirtualBox or VMware to create virtual machines. You can use KVM – the kernel-based virtual machine – to run both Windows and Linux in virtual machines. You can use KVM directly or with other command-line tools, but the graphical Virtual Machine Manager (Virt-Manager) application will feel most familiarContinue reading “How to Install KVM and Create Virtual Machines on Ubuntu”

What the Red Means The lines that the user needs to enter or customize will be in red in this tutorial! The rest should mostly be copy-and-pastable. About Munin Munin is a helpful utility that provides a visual way to monitor a VPS. It is set up to be extremely plug and play. It canContinue reading “How To Install and configure Munin on an Ubuntu Server/Client”