Getting you up to speed!
This article’s goal is to raise awareness of VSCodium, an open-source alternative to VSCode that has a couple of important benefits and changes. This isn’t the kind of article that I usually write, but it seems important to make people aware of the choices they have here. This isn’t really a software review, nor is … Continue reading “You Can, And Probably Should, Use VSCodium Instead Of VSCode”
balenaEtcher is a free software tool used to write .ISO files to USBs so that you can boot from them and install Linux. balenaEtcher is just one of many tools to do this, but it is both simple and effective. That makes it fit for purpose and is why it is getting its own article. … Continue reading “balenaEtcher: A Tool To Turn Linux .ISO Files Into Bootable USB Drives”
This article will explain a little about ‘traceroute’ as a network diagnostic application. We’ll give a few traceroute examples, enabling you to figure out some networking issues. Whenever I find myself unable to connect to a networked device, including websites online via the internet, one of the first tools I reach for is called ‘traceroute’. … Continue reading “‘traceroute’ in Linux, Let’s Take a Closer Look!”
Today’s article will show you how to properly delete a user’s account. It’s a pretty basic task and an astute observer would note that I’ve not yet written an article about creating user accounts. I may have to write said article at some point, because why not? This promises to be a pretty easy and … Continue reading “How To: Properly Delete a User’s Account”
In this article, we’ll go hunting for rootkits with a tool known as ‘rkhunter‘. It’s relatively easy to use rkhunter and this article will show you how. Don’t worry, it’s not all that complicated. You can do it. Recommended reading: What You Need to Know About Linux Rootkits So, what is a rootkit? Well, for … Continue reading “Let’s Use rkhunter To Look For Rootkits”
This article is going to be a limited look at cURL, a Linux application used in the terminal to transfer data. cURL is a very extensive program and we’ll just be scratching the surface. You’ll see why we’re just scratching the surface soon enough. It’s a very comprehensive application. So, what is cURL? It’s an … Continue reading “Let’s Have a Limited Look at Linux’s cURL Application”
In this article, I’m going to show you how to graphically login as root in Ubuntu. This is a generally considered a terrible idea and you should not do this. In fact, if you have a good reason for doing this, please leave a comment letting us know what that reason is. Thanks! A couple … Continue reading “How To: Graphically Login as Root in Ubuntu”
This article is based on an AskUbuntu question I answered a while back. The user wanted to know how to use Wayland in a live instance of Ubuntu. They wanted to test some Wayland stuff and this was how they wanted to do it. I personally would have gone a different route, but that’s fine. … Continue reading “How To: Use Wayland in a Live Ubuntu Instance”
This will be a quick and easy article, where I explain how to enable the root account in Ubuntu. It’s easy to enable the root account, but you may not want to. The choice is up to you. This article really starts here, with a pet peeve. See, Ubuntu doesn’t ship with root enabled by … Continue reading “How To: Enable The Root Account in Ubuntu”
Wait a minute… There was an article yesterday! There shouldn’t be an article today! Indeed, there shouldn’t. This is a meta post, letting folks know the state of the site. Linux-Tips is a personal project, though one I encourage folks to join. The goal has been, and will continue to be, to write an article … Continue reading “The State of Linux-Tips.us, a Meta Post”
