dwm: A Minimalist Tiling Window Manager For Linux – Make Tech Easier

Postat de: Cristian Gherman

Tiling window managers have several advantages over their more popular cousins such as Gnome and KDE. dwm takes these advantages to their most extreme with only 2000 lines of code. If you're looking for a bare-bones experience or a foil to your current desktop environment, find out how dwm can offer exactly that.

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34 Linux Server Security Tips & Checklists for Sysadmins | Process Street

Postat de: Cristian Gherman

Linux (or Unix-like) software runs the majority of the world's servers. This is owing to its incredible power, transparency, and customizability. While Windows is built for the average home-officer, gamer, or grandparent — and comes with its own set of controls to stop these users destroying their operating systems — Linux enjoys a total lack of restrictions but also exposes the user to an incredible amount of complexity. This interactive map is worth checking out in full size Out of the box, Linux servers don't come "hardened" (e.g. with the attack surface minimized). It's up to you to prepare for each eventuality and set up systems to notify you of any suspicious activity in the future. In this post, I'm going to share 34 server security improvements you can make, and give you several server security checklists you can run for future setup. First, open a new terminal session and type su followed by your password to gain super user privilege. This will allow you to execute the

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5 Useful Terminal Tools to Better Manage Processes in Linux – Make Tech Easier

Postat de: Cristian Gherman

Linux offers a number of tools for examining your running processes. You can find out which applications are eating all your memory and which files are attached to those rogue programs. Or you can just get a global view of how your system is performing. Find out the tools for you to better manage processes in Linux.

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Raspberry Pi 3B+ Specs and Benchmarks – The MagPi Magazine

Postat de: Adrian Marius Popa

With an upgraded processor boasting impressive new packaging and improved networking capabilities, the new Raspberry Pi 3B+ sits head and shoulders above its predecessor the Raspberry Pi 3. So let’s take a look at some of the new features on the latest member of the Raspberry Pi Family. Raspberry Pi 3B+ specifications SoC: Broadcom BCM2837B0 […]

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How to Rename Multiple Files on Linux

Postat de: Cristian Gherman

We'll show you, how to rename multiple files on Linux . Every operating system in the modern world comes with several ways to interact with its file system. Whether it's creating files, renaming them, copying them, or deleting them, they all come with functionality to efficiently carry out all of these tasks. However, one operation that most operating systems fall short with is renaming several files at the same time. Whether you need a pattern that the files need to follow, or if you just want to rename many files at one time, renaming files can be quite tedious. Luckily, renaming software can help us solve this issue. In this tutorial, we will go through several options for batch renaming of files on Debian-based systems, as well as RHEL-based (RedHat Enterprise Linux) systems. Debian-based Operating Systems Debian and similar distributions such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint have a built in command line tool for batch renaming files. 'rename', offered on some Debian-based OSes, is one of

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