Lalit Kumar The yum and dnf are the command line package management utilities that can be used for installation, updating, and removal of a software package. These are used in the CentOS, Fedora, and other similar Linux distributions. Centos is a community-supported distribution designed as an opensource version of RHEL(Red Hat Enterprise Linux) while fedora is another … Read more
Software Package A software package is an archive file of compiled and built source code with necessary metadata for its deployment. The metadata of the package consist of dependencies, package version, and about the software. For example – the .deb packaging is used for Debian based Linux Distributions while .rpm packaging is used in Red Hat, … Read more
A process is an instance of a computer program that is currently running. A program can have multiple instances created when it starts executing which means more than one process can be associated with that program. Multitasking is the method by which these processes share the system resources. Whenever we execute a command on terminal … Read more
In Unix or Unix based operating systems, a shell is a program that interprets the command and acts as an intermediary between user and kernel. There are different types of shells are available on different Unix based systems. These all have similar functionality but different syntax and capabilities. You can automate a task by writing … Read more
In this article, we will learn to add or remove users and giving them required permissions in Linux or Unix. As these operating systems are multi-user many users can have accounts on a single OS and can use resources simultaneously at a time. So It is necessary to manage all the users or user groups. … Read more
Linux and Unix are multi-user operating systems that means different users can access the operating system at a time and can use system resources simultaneously. So, different file and directories can have different owners, and also have different permissions about reading, writing, or execution of that file. If a user A accesses a file which … Read more
Introduction to vi Vi is a command based & standard Unix text editor. It is fast and powerful you need not remove your fingers from your keyboard while editing a file in it. It has short commands to manipulate the text. And it is available for nearly all Unix like operating systems. Originally it was … Read more
Programming in Linux has various advantages over other operating systems. It provides a vast repository of open source tools required for the development of software as it is open source that means you can change every line of code as per your requirement and use. Basically, Linux comes with pre-installed standard compilers and interpreters so … Read more
Linux has a built-in command ifconfig that is used to configure wired network interfaces. In this article I am going to give the example commands to setup MAC address manually. How to Setup MAC address using ifcofig: Use the below commands in sequence to setup the MAC address on your Linux or Unix or BSD … Read more
