VMware Workstation is a line of Desktop Hypervisor products which lets users run virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes clusters. In Short VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software that is used for x86 and x86-64 computers to run multiple operating systems over a single physical host computer. Each virtual machine can run a single instance …
Introduction An ISO file is an archive file (disk image) of an optical disc using a conventional ISO (International Organization for Standardization) format that typically contains the complete image of a CD or DVD. For example, most operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and macOS are distributed as ISO images. ISO image files typically have …
In this lesson we’re going to discuss time maintenance on Linux. Introduction Now when you initially setup a Linux system you’re prompted to configure your system time along with your time zone. When you do this you’re probably not overly concerned about these settings because they don’t really seem all that critical to the functioning …
This lesson we’re going to talk about How you can manage CUPS printers from the command line. Introduction Now as you know you can use the CUPS web-based administration utility to manage the CUPS service running on a Linux system. However, you can also use a variety of different command-line tools to manage CUPS as …
This lesson we’re going to talk about how you prioritize processes they’re running on a Linux system. In my previous article, I had explained following concepts and I would request you to read that guides: How Linux handles Processes How to Kill a Process (Terminate a running process) in Linux Introduction Now remember Linux is …
Let’s spend a few minutes discussing How you go about killing a running process on a Linux system from the shell prompt. Introduction Now normally you don’t do this instead you would use the appropriate exit function that’s coded into nearly all applications to end its process. For example, if I were in the vi …
In this lesson we’re going to review how Linux handles Processes. What exactly is a Process? So, what exactly is a Process. For our purposes a process is a program that’s been loaded from a long-term storage of device like the hard disk drive into your system RAM and is currently being processed by the …
In this lesson we’re going to look at How you can use the cron daemon to schedule jobs to run in the future on a schedule that you specify. Understanding crontab Now as you know, the at daemon can also do the something, you can use it to schedule a job to run at a …
Introduction A key skill that you need to have as a Linux System Administrator is knowing how to view information about the currently installed Hardware in your system. And in this lesson, we’re going to look at various tools that you can use to do this. 1. Exploring /proc File System Now believe it or …
In this lesson we’re going to discuss something that’s really cool. It’s called Logical Volume Manager which most folks just call LVM. Introduction LVM provides an alternative that you can use when you’re partitioning the hard disk drives in your Linux system. Basically, what it does is create an alternative to the traditional process of …