Generally speaking, Linux administrators are supposed to track the performance of your computer hardware issues or faults which might occur accidentally. Sometimes, overheating issues can occur due to various software concerns such as buggy graphics card driver, mis-configured fan control program, malfunctioning CPU frequency scaling daemon, etc. If these problems are not detected early, these might become serious threats which may cause permanent damage on your hardware. Hence, keeping an eye on over heating issues should be your top priority.Psensor is considered to be one of the simplest application to monitor hardware temperature and to plot real-time analytics from raw ... Read More

In Software development life cycle (SDLC), tracking bugs is one of the critical area and without this step, SDLC process cannot be completed. Developers are generally required to track bugs using bug tracking software in development projects. There are certain bug tracking system providers in the market which are specialized into tracking bugs and managing of full software projects.After a detailed research, I have listed down the Top 5 open source bug tracking systems for Linux.BugzillaBugzilla is an open source bug tracking system. It is used to manage software development which is also helpful to get a handle on software ... Read More

WordPress is a free content management system (CMS) and well-known across the globe. It is an open source CMS based on MySQL and PHP. Beginners generally begin with WordPress on localhost. Here’s how we start with WordPress on localhost using XAMPP.TerminologyContent Management System (CMS) − A CMS has a central interface that is used to publish, edit, modify, and maintain content. Some well know CMS include, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.WordPress− It is an open source content management system founded by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. It was initially released in the year 2003 and its current version is WordPress 4.4.Xampp− ... Read More

Do you know “How to take screenshots in Linux operating system”? then this article is for you! There are many tools, which are available for Linux operating systems but one of the most reputed tool for screenshots which I would recommend is Shutter. It is an open source program and is written in perl. It is designed extremely well, offering an easy way to take screenshots of the entire screen, a region of the screen, a specific window, or even a website with a click of a button.Features of ShutterThe main attributes of the shutter tool are listed below –It ... Read More

Do you know “how to use USB memory sticks with Linux”, If you are not sure then this article describes “how to mount USB drive on a Linux system with command line interface”Universal serial bus, or USB (also known as Flash drive), is an electronic communications protocol that is commonly used in computer accessories and other small devices. If you have an up-to-date Linux system and a modern Desktop environment, your device should show up on your desktop, with no need to open a console. There are few important factors which are involved in learning how to mount USB drive ... Read More

Generally, system administrators check the performance problems and related issues using various monitoring tools. nload is one of the most useful app to monitor network throughput on the command line interface. It is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transferred data and min/max network usage.This article describes “how to monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage in Cent OS”.Installing nloadBefore installing nload on Cent OS, EPEL package is required and it should be enabled by default.To install EPEL package, ... Read More

GNOME is a totally intuitive and user friendly desktop environment for CentOS and RHEL 7.x based system. The latest version of GNOME Desktops are GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 and the GNOME Shell desktop. Most of the users who prefer traditional desktop environments can get it via GNOME’s classic mode. It is also fully configurable with extensions. If you have done basic installation, this article will give insights on – how to install Gnome GUI on a CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 using a command line options.Installing Gnome GUITo install Gnome GUI, use the following commands-$ yum grouplistThe sample output ... Read More

Suppose you are a business owner and your offices are located in 10 different Indian states. Now you want to display this data on your website, then this article is for you, where I am going to cover the process of creating an interactive map using FusionCharts core JavaScript charts library and it’s maps package.Firstly, there are two ways to display data on your website −A list with all the addresses orAn interactive map?If you are a visual learner like most people, you will go with the second option – an interactive map.And if you want to learn how to ... Read More

Lynis is an open source and a powerful auditing tool for Unix-like operating systems. It scans system for protection knowledge, common approach know-how, any pre-installed software’s and to be had knowledge, configuration mistakes, safety disorders, consumer accounts without password, unsuitable file permissions, firewall auditing and so forth.Understanding LynisLinux performs individual test cases to secure your Linux system. To display test report, follow the below cases –Determine operating systemSearch for available tools and utilitiesCheck for Lynis updateRun tests from enabled pluginsRun security tests per categoryReport status of security scanDuring the test cases, all scanned details are stored in a log file ... Read More

Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of application inside the software container. The container allows the developer to package up all project resources such as libraries, dependencies, assets etc. Docker is written in Go Programming language and is developed by Dotcloud. It is basically a container engine which uses the Linux Kernel features like namespaces and control groups to create containers on top of an operating system and automates the application deployment on the container.Installing DockerBefore installing Docker on CentOS, it is required to update CentOS packages. To update the packages, use the following commands-# yum -y ... Read More