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No, executing "sudo rm -rf /" will not wipe out your complete system unless you do *. Read the full article to find out.

Linux file system works differently than the windows system. Unlike Windows, which stores files and configurations inside C:, D:, or E: Drive, Linux stores everything inside the root (/).

During a computer's boot process, you must transition from a firmware (UEFI or BIOS) process to loading a kernel and then finally to the user environment. When booting a POSIX system, you can choose to interrupt the boot process to adjust settings or even to log in using a chroot environment.

I’ve worked with many software developers, some of them fresh out of college and others seasoned professionals. This article lists some of the traits these people seem to have in common, and I’m confident that there’s something to learn for everyone here, no matter your track record.

As a member of the Fedora Linux QA team, I sometimes find myself executing a bunch of commands that I want to broadcast to other developers. If you've ever used a terminal multiplexer like tmux or GNU Screen, you might think that that's a relatively easy task. But not all of the people I want to see my demonstration are connecting to my terminal session from a laptop or desktop. Some might have casually opened it from their phone browser—which they can readily do because I use tmate.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol that allows you to control a computer remotely using the VNC client software. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the VNC Server on the latest Ubuntu Server 22.04. This guide also covers how to securely connect to the VNC Server through SSh tunneling.

For the average PC user who has been using the established desktop operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and macOS, Linux can be somewhat confusing. So, are you a newcomer to Linux? Not sure which Linux distribution to choose to begin your Linux journey? This article is for you!

The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of KDE Plasma 5.25 as the latest stable series of this beloved graphical desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Release highlights of KDE Plasma 5.25 which brings first-ever dynamic accent colour based on wallpaper, flaoting panel and more.

A beginner's guide to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.25 from Plasma 5.24 desktop environment via terminal and GUI method.

Being able to view and analyze sudo logs is one of the key parts of maintaining your Linux machine. Learn how to look at sudo history today.

Timeshift is a system backup and restores tool designed to restore your system into a usable state after something goes wrong. Timeshift is designed to only backup system files and settings. In this tutorial we'll learn how to use Timeshift to restore our system to a previous state. 

Mozilla introduced an Add-on to help you translate web pages locally without transmitting the data to the cloud or server.

After using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for a long time, it’s time to move to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jelly Fish) to use the new features that have created a lot of hype. While making the change, I found that the gnome tweak tool does not have the extensions option. Because of that, I’m not able to tweak the default option of a particular extension.

That disappoints me. So I started to search on the Internet and found the Gnome team had dropped the Gnome Shell extensions support in Gnome 40 and later versions.

ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite and Strapi is an open-source collaborative CMS built on Node.js. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to connect the instances of ONLYOFFICE Docs and Strapi using an integration plugin (connector).

At MongoDB's recent conference in New York, the company demonstrated its ambition in taking on workloads from other databases. The company has made significant inroads into the database market with a developer-friendly distributed document database to help devs build modern, web-based, transactional systems.

The eighty-nine installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 12th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that are happening in the Linux world.

Make your code extremely versatile with JupyterLab, a server-client application for interactive coding in Python, Julia, R, and more.

Sometimes combining different open source projects can have benefits. The synergy of using Terraform with TrueNAS is a perfect example. TrueNAS is an OpenBSD-based operating system that provides network-attached storage (NAS) and network services. One of its main strengths is leveraging the ZFS file system, which is known for enterprise-level reliability and fault tolerance. Terraform is a provisioning and deployment tool embodying the concept of infrastructure as code.

Apache has various functionality known as modules to increase the features of Apache without the need for a restart. In Apache, the default non-secure HTTP connection uses port 80, and the TLS configuration serves the data over port 443.

Today, you will learn how to change the default Apache HTTP port to your custom port in a few steps.

The Mozilla Thunderbird development team shared today their plans to develop a full-featured email client for Android devices in collaboration with the K-9 Mail Project.