Les Pounder

Linux has a great network management GUI but sometimes we need to get our hands dirty in the terminal. In this how to we look at how to manage connections on a typical Ubuntu / Debian Linux machine.

Removing files and directories using the Linux command line is very efficient and can be used directly, or when accessing a system remotely.

Running Linux on your Chromebook used to be fraught with hacks and complications, but now we can easily run a Linux virtual machine alongside Google’s cloud based OS.

Learn how to write a Bash shell script that will have all of your favorite apps ready to go!

Managing files across a remote connection, or sat at your desk, the Linux terminal is the place to be. Learn how one command can be used for two different purposes.

Rip your CDs directly from the Linux terminal using the abcde bash tool.

Tio, is a tool for Linux that enables easy and fast connections to serial devices. If you are working with the Raspberry Pi Pico or Arduino, then this is a great tool for you.

Manage your third party applications as easily as software from the official repositories with deb-get.

Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.

In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.

It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn’t a maze of dead ends. Here’s the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.

Managing users in Linux is easy and we’ll show you how to use both the GUI and the terminal to add and remove users to and from different user groups.

Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.

Copying files and directories using the Linux command line is efficient and can be used while sitting at the machine or when accessing a system remotely.

In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.

Write your own scripts to automate the boring / complex tasks of your job.

Reusing older hardware as a web server is a great way to learn web development, server administration,

PDF24 is a tool to create, edit, extract, insert and secure PDFs.

All the Ubuntu / Debian Linux commands you need to copy files, install software, edit text and much, much more.

Add grep to your Linux toolkit and slice through files, directories and console output to find the details that you need.

Passwords are the keys to our digital lives. But we shouldn’t just hand over the keys to anyone, our passwords should be unique and changed regularly.

Nohup is a command which prevents commands / scripts from stopping should we close a terminal window / SSH session.