The Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) is a firewall management tool that makes it easier to configure the iptables service. UFW originated with Ubuntu® but can be downloaded and installed on other distributions. It is primarily useful for home users who don’t have experience with the intricacies of firewall configuration. The ufw command enables you to work […]
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dpkg-reconfigure Command Options
When a package is installed, it may run a configuration script as part of the installation process. To run this configuration script again at some point in the future, use the dpkg-reconfigure command. Although there are some options to this command, they are rarely used. Syntax of the dpkg-reconfigure command: # dpkg-reconfigure [options] source packages […]
Configure Network Bonding in Ubuntu Server
Network bonding is the aggregation or combination of multiple LAN cards into a single bonded interface to provide high availability and redundancy. Network bonding is also known as NIC teaming. In this article, we will discuss how to configure network bonding in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server. In my scenario, I have two Lan Cards: eth0 […]
Wallch (Wallpaper Changer) – Rotate Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers
Wallch is a free and open-source Wallpaper Changer for Ubuntu Desktop. Wallch rotates desktop wallpapers from the set of favorite wallpapers at a particular interval of time and keeps your desktop fresh and new. Some of Common features are listed below: Change Desktop Wallpapers on PC start-up Change Desktop Wallpaper choosing images randomly Change Desktop […]
Installation Steps of jEdit on Ubuntu Linux
jEdit is a Programmer’s Text Editor written in Java. jEdit is a cross-platform text editor & has an extensive feature set that includes syntax highlighting, auto-indent, folding, word wrap, abbreviation expansion, multiple clipboards, powerful search and replace,s and much more. Jedit comes under GNU General Public License Moreover, jEdit is extremely customizable, and extensible, using […]
K3b Nero like CD/DVD Burning Software in Ubuntu Linux
K3b stands for “KDE Burn Baby Burn”. K3b is Nero-like CD/DVD burning software in UNIX-like Operating System. It is an alternate of Nero in ubuntu, where Nero is commercial software in Windows & K3b is open-source software. It provides a graphical user interface to perform the most common CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio […]
Xine Multimedia Software – Play audio and video files in Ubuntu Linux
Xine is an open-source video/audio player in Ubuntu Linux, it comes under GPL license. xine plays MPEG system (audio and video) streams, MPEG elementary streams (e.g. .mp3 or .mpv files), MPEG transport streams Ogg files, avi files, asf files, QuickTime files, (S)VCDs and DVDs, and many more. Some key features of Xine xine is fast […]
ClusterSSH(cssh) – Manage Multiple SSH Sessions on Linux
ClusterSSH(cssh) is a cluster administration tool, it is used to make the same change on multiple Linux servers at the same time. ClusterSSH(cssh) controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple Linux servers over an ssh or rsh connection. Cssh command opens […]
Ubuntu Linux – yED(Graph Editor) Alternate of Microsoft Office Visio
yEd(Graph Editor) is an open-source and powerful desktop application written in the Java programming language. yED is generally used to generate high-quality diagrams. It is an alternate or replacement of Microsoft Office Visio on Ubuntu Linux. Key Features Import your own data from an Excel / spreadsheet (.xls) or XML Create diagrams with ease via […]
htop (interactive process viewer) Linux Performance Monitoring tool
htop is an interactive process viewer in a UNIX-like operating system. Htop is a free (GPL) ncurses-based process viewer for Linux. It is similar to the top but allows you to scroll vertically and horizontally, so you can see all the processes running on the system, along with their full command lines. Tasks related to […]