Web Browser is a software which is used to browse or surf on web pages. Web Browsers generally used on internet web pages. Web Browser also called Browser, Internet Browser. World Wide Web or simply www is the main area Web Browsers operate. World Wide Web is mainly consisted and runs on the big global network named Internet. Web Browser History Web browser history starts in the near feature where...
An operating system is a software which is used to operate, use computer or server hardware and provide these sources to the user applications. Operating systems is an intermediate software which is very important for computers and servers because it provides a lot of different services to the user side applications. Operating System History Operating system history consists of mainly 4 phases. First Generation (1945-1955) First operating systems are created...
Linux provides different commands in order to remove or delete directories and files. But in some cases, this may not work as expected and we can get a message like rmdir: ‘dir’ Directory no empty which simply means when we try to delete a directory with rmdir command it is not completed. In this tutorial, we will learn how to remove and delete an empty or full directory. Remove with...
FTP protocol and tools are used to transfer data over network in a simple manner. There are different FTP tools with GUI support which can provide simple usage without knowing any command but in some cases we may need to use FTP commands. In this tutorial we will learn how to use FTP commands with example in operating systems like Windows and Linux. Escape Shell
1 | ! |
Execute Macro Defined macros...
Linux is a Operating System kernel and user space applications will create different distributions like CentOS, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali around this kernel. Kernel can be downloaded freely and used without any license fee. In this tutorial we will learn how to download Linux Kernel from kernel.org and compiling with GCC . An the last step installing or upgrading the kernel. Download Kernel Source Code Kernel source code is originally maintained...
Linux is mostly known with its distributions or distros but the reality is that Linux is just a kernel or core of the operating system. All user space and some of the operating space related tools are provided by distributions. We can actually call distribution as a operating system. Linux is very different from Windows where with its open and dynamic architecture we can create different type of operating systems...
VMware is a Linux based virtualization system which provides rich features. VMware supported by different platforms like Windows, MacOS, Linux. As WMware is a closed source product we need to make some manual work on Linux systems. If we are using Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Mint and similar up-to-date systems which owns kernel newer than 4.8 VMware do not works accordingly. In this tutorial we will look the problem and how...
Cygwin is free software to provide Linux and Unix environment, tools and libraries in Windows operating systems. Cygwin is also called an emulator because it translates Linux system calls into Windows type systems calls. Cygwin generally used to run Linux tools like ssh,scp,bash, X11,gcc in Windows environment. Cygwin support following operating systems Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 10 Windos Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server...
uname command is simple tool which provides information about the kernel, machine, processor, and operating system. There are a lot of more complex and feature applications that can provide more information but the simplicity makes uname best choose. Syntax We will use following syntax for uname command.
1 | uname [OPTION]... |
Help Brief help can be displayed with the –help option.
1 | $ uname --help |
Display Kernel Name Kernel name is set by compiling kernel. Distributions...
Linux have a lot of utilities to manage, diagnose, check and correct different type of file systems. these utilities provide a lot of features especially Linux native file systems like ext2,ext3,ext4 etc. One of the most popular tool is fsck tool. In this tutorial we will look general usage of fsck Syntax Fsck have similar syntax with other Linux tools but have some difference like adding file system specific options to...
