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Operating Systems List

Operating Systems List

Operating systems are an important part of today’s IT systems. During history, different types of operating systems are developed with different methodologies, licenses, prices, and features. Even most of us do not know there are hundreds of operating systems where only a dozen of them continued and most of them vanished. What Is Operating System? … Read more

What Is Fedora (Linux Operating System/Distribution)?

What Is Fedora (Linux Operating System/Distribution)?

Fedora is a Linux based operating system which provides innovative, free, and open-source platform for hardware, pc, laptop, cloud, and containers. Fedora is also called a Linux distribution where it uses the Linux kernel as the core of the operating system. Fedora History Fedora distribution is officially released on 6 November 2003 for the first … Read more

What Is Arch Linux? Why Use It?

What Is Arch Linux? Why Use It?

Arch Linux is a Linux distribution that is created for simplicity, optimization, modernity, pragmatism, user centrality, and versatility. Arch Linux is different from the mainstream distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and SUSE with its package management system and philosophy. Arch Linux adopts the rolling release model which means there are no … Read more

What Is an Operating System (OS)?

What Is an Operating System (OS)?

An operating system is a software that 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 … Read more

What Is Disk Operating System (DOS)?

Disk Operating System or DOS is an old command-line based operating system which is developed by Microsoft. DOS operating system controls the hardware and peripheral devices of the computer and allows the applications and programs to run properly. DOS vs MS-DOS vs PC-DOS vs DR-DOS vs FreeDOS As we can see there are a lot … Read more

List of FTP Commands For Linux and Windows with Examples

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 … Read more

How To Download, Compile and Install Custom Linux Kernel Manually In Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, CentOS?

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 … Read more

The Top Linux Distributions (Distros)

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 … Read more

Linux VMware Workstation Not Enough Physical Memory Is Available Error and Solution

Linux VMware Workstation Not Enough Physical Memory Is Available Error and Solution

VMware is a Linux based virtualization system that provides rich features. VMware supported by different platforms like Windows, MacOSX, 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 whose own kernel newer than 4.8 … Read more

Linux mv Command Tutorial

Linux mv Command Tutorial

Linux mv command is used to move or rename files. We generally provide the source and destination files and directories to mv command. mv Command Syntax The Linux mv command has the following simple syntax where SOURCE and DESTINATION are a must. SOURCE is the source file or directory which will be moved to the DESTINATION DESTINATION … Read more