Getting you up to speed!
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”
There are a number of things you can do to help secure SSH, and changing the port that SSH uses is one of those things that many people change. That can help, but I feel it’s important to also mention that security by obscurity isn’t really good security. By the way, I’ve already written a … Continue reading “How To: Change The Port SSH Uses”
As you learn Linux, you’ll possibly find yourself using the terminal more often. You’ll run processes in the terminal because you need to or because you prefer to. This is how you stop, pause, and resume those processes running in your terminal. There are any number of reasons why you’d need to do this. I’ll … Continue reading “How To: Stop, Pause, and Resume Processes Running in Your Terminal”
There are many reasons why you may want to change your default terminal emulator. It’s actually nice easy to change the default terminal. This article explains how and anyone should be able to do it, even a beginner! First, it’s often called a terminal emulator because it allows you to emulate the terminal in a … Continue reading “Let’s Learn How To Change The Default Terminal”
Should you use screenFetch or Neofetch? That’s up to you to decide. This article will share some info about both of them. This should be a pretty short article. I also confess that there’s not much of a “vs.” here. The screenFetch app hasn’t been updated in a long time and Neofetch is the clear … Continue reading “Screenfetch vs. Neofetch, You Decide!”
Finally, an attempt to answer to the age old question: Which Linux distro is the best? This question has been asked time and time again and debated from the moment more than one distro existed – so, pretty much since day one. It has been so hotly debated that it has caused true animosity and … Continue reading “Finally, an Answer to What is The Best Linux Distro?”
For whimsy, or for whatever reasons you dream up, you may want to rename your network adapters in Linux. Well, you can. This article will explain how to rename your network adapters, from perhaps eth0 to whatever you want. I can only be certain that this works in current Ubuntu LTS – 20.04, I didn’t … Continue reading “How To: Rename Your Network Adapters in Ubuntu”
Let’s try something new! Let’s take a look at a different file manager for a change. Specifically, let’s look at SpaceFM, a multi-panel file manager for Linux. It’s worth looking at and has a ton of useful features. I figured that it’d be fun to sometimes review stuff and added the category when I was … Continue reading “Review: The SpaceFM File Manager For Linux”
For some reason, Ubuntu Server comes with ‘power management’ enabled. This is an article that tells you how to disable sleep and hibernation in Ubuntu Server. It’ll work just fine for non-server installs, but this is aimed specifically at the Ubuntu Server release. I recently was working on my own router. For this, I used … Continue reading “How To: Disable Sleep And Hibernation on Ubuntu Server”
‘vnStat’ is a wonderful tool for monitoring your bandwidth usage. This article will show you how to use vnStat effectively. For bonus points, we’ll also look at ‘vnstati’ so you can make pretty graphs to visualize your bandwidth usage. This article shouldn’t take too long! ‘vnStat‘ stands for ‘view network statistics’ and has been around … Continue reading “‘vnStat’ A Tool For Monitoring Your Bandwidth Usage”
