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DistroTest is free web service that allows you to test 200+ Linux and Unix operating systems for free, without having to install them locally.

This tutorial explains how to install Oracle VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS headless server and how to manage the VirtualBox headless instances using phpVirtualBox.

Tomb file encryption tool allows the users to create encrypted storage to protect the personal and/or secret files in GNU/Linux.

Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Unlike the normal SSH session, ET session will survive even after the network outages or IP changes.

Newsboat, a fork of Newsbeuter, is a free, open source RSS/Atom feed reader for text consoles. Compared to other slow and huge amount of memory consumed RSS feed readers, Newsboat is the best choice for anyone who are looking for a simple, slick and fast feed reader that can be completely managed via keyboard.

This tutorial explains the list of most commonly used Youtube-dl commands to download videos from Youtube and other websites in Linux. There are numerous applications available to Download Youtube videos. We have covered such applications, namely ClipGrab, and Mps-youtube etc., in the past. Today, we are going to learn about yet another Youtube downloader called Youtube-dl.

This post explores 3 platform agnostic Linux package managers namely AppImage, Snap and Flatpak.

This brief guide explains the three easiest ways to find the port number of a service in Linux operating system.

Cylon script provides a lot of tools and features to maintain your Arch Linux system.

This guide explains how to install NetData performance monitoring tool on Linux.

The Topgrade utility will upgrade everything in Linux and Unix operating systems. It is free, open source and written using Rust.

This guide describes how to check Linux package version before installing it in Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu.

Find Linux system details, such as CPU, Kernel, Memory, Processes and a lot more using Inxi utility.

Neofetch is a simple, yet useful command line system information utility written in Bash. It is used to display your Linux system information in Terminal.

Learn most-commonly used Tmux commands to manage multiple Terminal sessions.

Basic usage of Screen command with examples in Linux.

This tutorial explains how to do package management operations such as installing, removing, updating, and upgrading packages using Nix package manager.

Basic usage of Cron Jobs with practical examples.

This tutorial explains how to lock the keyboard and mouse, but not the screen in Linux using “xtrlock” utility.

This comprehensive guide explains how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio, video transcoding and conversion operations with 20+ practical examples.