It can be a bit frustrating when hardware doesn’t work on your Linux install, especially WiFi. Sometimes, WiFi works out of the box – and other times, not so much. In this video, Jay from LearnLinuxTV will let you know why this is sometimes a problem, as well as some of the things you can do about it.
For the entire history of LearnLinuxTV, countless distributions have been reviewed. After all this time, the best distribution of Linux has FINALLY been found! In this review, we’ll take a look at the great DJL!
The grep command – one of the most popular Linux commands, and definitely deserving of a feature video in the Linux Essentials series. In this video, Jay goes over the basics of the grep command, along with some useful examples.
Do you know where your most-used files and directories are? Sure, there’s more than a few commands you can run to find out, but ncdu is a great tool for this purpose. Using ncdu, you can scan your entire hard disk (or any mounted filesystem) and determine where your storage pain points are – and take action!
Monitoring the resources of your Linux server and watching for negative trends is one way to stay ahead of potential performance issues, and the sar command will help you do exactly that. In this video, Jay goes over the basics of the sar command.
In the Linux Essentials series, we’ll go over the basics of a Linux command or feature in every episode. This time around, it’s all about the echo command. The echo command allows you to print text, but it also allows you to do other things as well, such as printing the contents of variables.
There are many terminal apps available that you can use while working with the command-line, but which one should you consider using? In this video, Jay shows you his top 5 favorite terminal emulators.
Bash is the default shell in the majority of Linux distributions, and it has countless features and tricks to make you more efficient. Bash keeps a history of the commands you’ve typed at the prompt, but most people aren’t aware of additional functionality that the history provides you. In this episode of Linux Essentials, Jay describes not only how to use the history command, but also some techniques to make better use of it.
Running a distribution of Linux on your laptop or desktop is a lot of fun, but that’s not all Linux can do. Using the “live mode” of a distribution can assist you with recovering data from a PC that won’t boot. In this video, Jay shows the process of booting a distribution in live mode to assist in the process of recovering files. As long as your hard disk hasn’t totally failed, this process will enable you to copy its data to an external USB drive.
The Linux Essentials series on LearnLinuxTV consists of mostly stand-alone episodes that are each dedicated to a specific command or feature in Linux. In this episode, we’ll go over the basics of the usermod command.