Watch Netflix on Linux with These 4 Tricks

A shiny new Linux installation is on your computer, all prepped for hours and hours of free and open source office work. But there’s something wrong. “What happened to putting the fun back into computing?” you may be asking yourself. “If only I could watch Netflix!” Here are four ways you can ...

Configure DHCP on RHEL 7 & CentOS 7

Step 1. Set host name and set IP Address Keeping it simple I just used dhcp.rhg.local here. It will be likely your system will run DHCP with other services so name accordingly. To check your current hostname use the cat command on /etc/hostname cat /etc/hostname Use the vi command to ...

How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Linux

Whether you’re using Linux on your desktop or a server, there are good tools that will scan your system for duplicate files and help you remove them to free up space. Solid graphical and command-line interfaces are both available. Duplicate files are an unnecessary waste of disk space. After ...

How to Uninstall Software Using the Command Line in Linux

Linux provides different methods for installing software. You can install software from the standard Ubuntu software repositories using the Ubuntu Software Center, from outside of the standard Ubuntu software repositories, or by compiling source code. However, what if you need to uninstall a program? If ...

Understanding the Linux file system – The root partition

In this guide I am going to show you how the Linux file system is laid out and show it’s difference compared to a Windows filesystem. I am writing this assuming you primary come from a Windows background. The Mac OSX file is called Darwin and is based off of Unix the same as Linux is. The filesystems ...

10 Useful Linux Command Line Tricks for Newbies – Part 2

I remember when I first started using Linux and I was used to the graphical interface of Windows, I truly hated the Linux terminal. Back then I was finding the commands hard to remember and proper use of each one of them. With time I realised the beauty, flexibility and usability of the Linux terminal ...

3 Useful Hacks Every Linux User Must Know

The world of Linux is filled with so much fun and interesting stuffs, the more we go in, the more we find stuffs. In our efforts to bring those little hacks and tips for you that makes you different from others, here we have came up with three little tricks. 1. How to Schedule a Linux Job Without Cron Scheduling a job/command in Linux is acronym ...

4 Useful Tips on mkdir, tar and kill Commands in Linux

We keep on accomplishing a task conventionally until we come to know that it can be done in a much better way the other way. In continuation of our Linux Tips and Trick Series, I am here with the below four tips that will going to help you in lots of ways. Here we go! 1. You are supposed to ...

How to Find and Remove Duplicate/Unwanted Files in Linux Using ‘FSlint’ Tool

Very recently I have written a post on fdupes utility which is used to find and replace duplicate files in Linux. This post was very much liked by our readers. If you have not gone through the fdupes utility post, you may like to go through it here: fdupes Tool to Find and Delete Duplicate Files This ...