use the lshw tool to gather vast information about your hardware components such as cpu, disks, memory, usb controllers etc. lshw is a relatively small tool and there are few options that you can use with it while extracting information. The information provided by lshw gathered form different /proc files. Note Point: Do remember that … Read more
To know only system name, you can use uname command without any switch will print system information or uname -s command will print the kernel name of your system. root@localhost ~ $ uname Linux To view your network hostname, use ‘-n’ switch with uname command as shown. root@localhost ~ $ uname -n localhost.localdomain To get … Read more
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) created the 802.11b Standard to provide a secure architecture for communicating with networking devices over an air medium but the standard has fallen short in providing a secure criterion. The 802.11b Standard has left many doors open for hackers to exploit these shortcomings and the goal of … Read more
;:LinuxLive USB Creator is a free and open-source software for Windows. It will help you in your journey of discovery with Linux. For you, LiLi creates portable, bootable and virtualized USB stick running Linux. Not only for geeks LiLi is designed to be used by both beginners and geeks. If you are a beginner, LiLi … Read more
On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, an inode stores information that describes a file or directory (also a file – because everything is a file in Unix) except its name and content or its actual data. Therefore, each file is indexed by an inode which is metadata about the file. An inode contains information … Read more
Yii is an open-source, high-performance, flexible, efficient and secure PHP framework for rapidly building modern Web applications. It is a generic and full-stack web programming framework for writing code in an object-oriented fashion and provides many proven and ready-to-use features. Yii Features Here are some of Yii’s key features: A pure OOP-based framework. A component-based … Read more
LAMP, an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, is a popular free and open-source stack used by website administrators and developers alike to test and host dynamic websites. The LAMP server comes with 4 core components: the Apache web server, MySQL or MariaDB database and PHP which is a popular scripting language that is … Read more
Arduino is a widely-used, open-source electronics platform used to create devices that interact with their environment using sensors and actuators. It consists of a programmable hardware board and a software (Integrated Development Environment(IDE)) for writing and uploading programs to the board. Before you can start building projects using Arduino, you need to set up the … Read more
An internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an identifier of a network interface that’s involved in an IPv6 computer network. If you don’t want to use Ipv6 addressing, you can opt to disable it either temporarily or permanently. Disabling IPv6 in CentOS First, check whether IPv6 is enabled on your CentOS 8 machine using the … Read more
SELinux or Security-Enhanced Linux is a mechanism or security module that provides access control security policies. In simple terms, it’s a feature or service used for restricting users to certain policies and rules set by the systems administrator. How to Temporarily Disable SELinux on CentOS Before you start disabling SELinux on CentOS , it’s prudent … Read more