Thomas Hyde
After tinkering with computers from a young age, I've spent my high school years reviewing every piece of software and hardware I could get my hands on. Now I have set my course on exploring the vast Linux universe in order to help users that feel intimated by this wonderful yet somehow complicated family of operating systems.
Choosing a Password Manager for Linux
About a decade ago, password management wasn’t a critical issue, and most Internet users had only a few of them to remember. Typically it was an e-mail, maybe a login to online forums, or a MUD game from even older times (who still remembers those?)....
Why You Should Rent and Use Datacenter Proxies
Data centers are great building complexes that store servers for a single company or many clients. To take care of such important hardware, centers have proper humidity and temperature control, as well as the necessary security tools. Large companies have their own data centers, while...
Best Linux Distros for Mining Cryptocurrency – A Guide for Beginners
Mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be a very profitable venture, provided you have the necessary hardware and software for the job. It’s pretty obvious why the hardware plays a major role in how efficiently you can mine, and how much you can earn by...
Guide to Check for Open Ports in Linux
An open port, also called a listening port, is essentially an address on your network system to which data packets can be sent. Many services make use of different ports. An open port can receive packets from anywhere hence it is important to configure its...
How to Exclude Files and Directories Using Rsync
Rsync, also called Remote Sync, is a popularly used command in Linux for managing files and directories remotely and locally. Through Rsync, we can synchronize, modify, and even transfer files and directories across various servers or locations. Consequently, Rsync also allows for excluding files and/or...
How to Add User to Sudoers or Sudo Group on CentOS 7
When it comes to a professional or technical workspace, dividing privileges to run commands becomes necessary. More so if your team is working on Linux systems since it holds a greater capacity of editing data at hardware levels. One such example is the “root” user...
How to Check For Files and Directories in Bash
Files and file systems are a key part of using Bash. In certain situations, we often need to check if the required files or directories exist in the system or not. There are a number of commands, including ‘test’, that provide the solutions to such...
How to Remove Remote Origin from Git
When you want to remove remote origin from Git, there are multiple ways to do it and reasons to. If the repository is no longer active or there have been work network changes, you may want to remove remote. Remove command The most straightforward way...
5+ Best LaTeX Editors for Linux Users in 2025
LaTeX editors take word formatting to the next level compared to Microsoft Word and other WYSIWYG editors. The LaTeX approach isn’t anywhere as visual as Office apps, but it provides plenty of options for formatting text up to the smallest detail and preference of the...
How to Use Bash While Loop Command to Automate Tasks Easily
Bash while loop is one of the three basic loops that are a part of this programming language. Just as the other two (until and for loop), this one can be useful when there is a need to repetitively run a series of commands until...
Ubuntu VirtualBox – A Detailed Installation Guide
If you are looking for a virtualization app with cross-platform support, you can’t go wrong with VirtualBox. It is the preferred choice of many Linux users because it is both free and open-source. Let’s take a look at how you can install Ubuntu VirtualBox. You...
A Guide About the Grep Command to Search Files in Linux
The Linux terminal is a quite powerful utility with numerous useful commands to control your operating system. The global regular expression print command or GREP is among the ones Linux users frequently utilize. You can use Grep to search multiple files for lines that will...
Popular Articles
Best Linux Distros for Developers and Programmers as of 2025
Linux might not be the preferred operating system of most regular users, but it’s definitely the go-to choice for the majority of developers and programmers. While other operating systems can also get the job done pretty well, Linux is a more specialized OS that was...
How to Install Pip on Ubuntu Linux
If you are a fan of using Python programming language, you can make your life easier by using Python Pip. It is a package management utility that allows you to install and manage Python software packages easily. Ubuntu doesn’t come with pre-installed Pip, but here...
