Category: Linux

Most may not know it, but Linux can get viruses too. Thankfully, there’s a tremendous command-line tool that mny Linux users use, and it’s called ClamAV. With it, users will be able to detect types of viruses via the command-line and look for exploits (for both Windows and Linux). When we were researching we ran […]

Ubuntu has been the only Linux distribution that Steam supported officially up until now. While Steam works fine on many other Linux distributions, Valve would not offer any kind of support if Steam was not run on Ubuntu. The dropping of 32-bit packages from Ubuntu would pose serious troubles for Steam going forward. As of […]

The which command in Linux is used to identify the location of executables. The where command is a Windows which equivalent in a command-line prompt (CMD). In a Windows Power. Shell the alternative for the which command is the Get-Command utility. A inquiry we ran across in our research was “How do I run Linux […]

Linux has its roots way back in 1991 when I was just a wee little one myself. Linus Torvalds started it as a “hobby,” and nearly two decades later it’s spawned dozens of major distributions and still hundreds more all used throughout the world. Here’s part of Torvalds’ Usenet messageexplaining his project back in August […]

You can use ex. FAT drives on Linux with full read-write support, but you’ll need to install a few packages first., the ex FAT file system is ideal for flash drives and SD cards. It’s like FAT32, but without the 4 GB file size limit. Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions don’t provide the proprietary […]

If you don’t know it, you’re best to research how to find out (As a rule of thumb, if your machine’s newer than 2005 you should be okay with amd64/x64/64-bit ) This is the recommended image to install Kali Linux. Which version of kali linux should I install? All you have to do is go […]

Ubuntu kernels from Canonical At the core of the Ubuntu operating system is the Linux kernel, which manages and controls the hardware resources like I/O (networking, storage, graphics and various user interface devices, etc.), memory and CPU for your device or computer. Which Linux kernel is best for your business? Canonical also provides interim operating […]

The primary reason Linux is more secure than Windows is that Linux does not have an open back door so nobody other than you can modify your computer . A second reason open source is more secure than Microsoft is that it is a bottom up, community driven development model rather than a top down […]

A Linux repository is a storage location from which your system retrieves and installs OS updates and applications. Each repository is a collection of software hosted on a remote server and intended to be used for installing and updating software packages on Linux systems. You should be asking “What is a Linux repository?” Sherwood (CC […]

Thanks to its lightweight architecture, Linux runs faster than both Windows 8.1 and 10. After switching to Linux, I’ve noticed a dramatic improvement in the processing speed of my computer. And I used the same tools as I did on Windows. All things being equal, almost any computer running Linux will operate faster and be […]