If you’re new to Linux chances are you know about Ubuntu. Ubuntu has done a great job making a distribution of Linux new-user friendly. One of the ways they have done this is by making the root user (the super user) somewhat transparent. The user can not log in as the root user in a [...]

Tags: /etc/sudoers, Linux, sudo
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

So you’ve been reading about Linux on ghacks for a few months now and you’ve  noticed plenty of screenshots or images of applications in action. Now it’s time you found out just how those images are taken. No it’s not magic, but in one instance it’s ImageMagick. Actually there are a few ways to take [...]

Tags: ImageMagick, images, Linux, screenshots, The GIMP
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I remember, way back, when I first started using Linux either was either in full-on command line only Linux or I was using Fvwm95. Executing commands in command line meant I had to know the name of the command. And when I was in the Fvwm95 desktop, if there wasn’t a menu entry for an [...]

Tags: executables, icons, Linux, menus, run dialog, starting applications
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

I am a child of the 80s (born in 1967), so I remember well the likes of Tempest, Zaxon, Galaga, Zap, Centipede, and many more games that stole my quarters over the years. These games helped to define my generation as the first to stare, glassy-eyed at a screen in hopes of having their name [...]

Tags: action games, Linux, linux games, scrolling games, shooters
Categories: Games, Linux, Open Source, software

So you’re using the Linux operating system and you’re not concerned with viruses. But you still get SPAM – and plenty of it. With the Evolution groupware suite you have, by default, Spamassassin as your Junk filtering tool. For some this is enough. For others, howerver, it doesn’t cut it. For those that need more [...]

Tags: Bogofilter, Evolution, HAM, Linux, spam
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software

This morning I needed a visual representation of my local Lan in order to find out what machines were associated with what IP addresses. For this task I used a tool that has come in handy on a number of occasions. That tool? Lanmap. Lanmap is a command-line only tool available for Ubuntu that will [...]

Tags: lan mapping, lanmap, Linux, network mapping
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software

You don’t usually here that phrase spoken “Linux anti-virus”. But it does exist. One of the more popular Linux anti-virus tools is ClamAV. But to most users (especially new users) ClamAV is a bit challenging to use. That is where KlamAV comes in. KlamAV does an outstanding job of making ClamAV a user-friendly tool.
Unlike ClamAV, [...]

Tags: anti virus, ClamAV, KlamAV, Linux
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, software