Have you ever broken apt? For seasoned Linux professionals, it’s quite common (about every half year) to unwittingly break apt. If you know a few commands in dpkg, you can often fix the issue more easily! Find out how.

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Have you ever heard of tmpfs in Linux? It is that small temporary file system residing within memory and installed by default on Linux distributions. Ultra-fast but usually limited in size. Can one grow it easily? Find out & more!

Logic gate: a cool term, but what does it mean? This article will introduce the concept of a logic gate as well as describe how each specific logic gate (OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, XNOR, and NOT) works.

JingOS 0.9 is available to download. Those going hands-on with this dev update to the iPad-inspired Linux distro have lots of enjoy — full details inside!

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A useful feature in almost every command-line environment is the environment variable.

Use the open source NLP tool voice2json to execute terminal using commands only your voice

I am a control freak. I like to be in control. I got my pilot’s license so I could fly an airplane for fun, but it also helped me understand what is happening when I fly commercial. So now I find myself explaining to other travelers that, while not a normal…

Compiling source code produces a binary. During compilation, you can provide flags to the compiler to enable or disable certain properties on the binary. Some of these properties are relevant to security. Checksec is a nifty little tool (and shell script)…

Start Your Own Virtualization Lab

On Linux, you may have used a package manager to install or remove packages. For example, the default package manager on Debian Linux is the deb command, and the default package manager on Fedora Linux is the dnf command. But did you know that FreeDOS has…

Top 40 Linux hardening/security tutorial and tips to secure the default installation of RHEL / CentOS / Fedora / Debian / Ubuntu Linux servers.

By now you are beyond well aware that 's changes to its CentOS community distribution has made it a less than an ideal for many use cases. Switching from the regular releases to a rolling release, the change brought about a domino effect that rendered many…

Adding a timestamp to the Linux bash history

Why create your own monitoring tools when there are so many better ones in the market? … Why not?