Htop is a free (GPL) ncurses-based process viewer for Linux. It is similar to top, but allows you to scroll vertically and horizon\u2010 tally, so you can see all the processes running on the system, along with their full command lines, as well as viewing them as a process tree, selecting multiple processes and acting […]
Five Ways to Display Ethernet Traffic on Linux
There are many packages available to display Ethernet network traffic on Linux. Here we’ll cover five of our favorites. Based on our assessment and decades of networking experience, these are the most useful, powerful and stable packages. In these examples, we use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. However, we have verified these packages to work equally well […]
Installing GNOME Desktop on Ubuntu
Introduction In many cases a minimum server or desktop installation on Ubuntu does not include a graphical desktop. Installing the packages needed for the GNOME desktop environment is simple. Installation Installation of the gnome desktop packages will take a fair amount of time since there are many files to install. Therefore, the faster your Internet […]
Time Server (ntp) Install & Configuration on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Introduction NTP stands for Network Time Protocol. It is a protocol for Internet connected systems to synchronize their clocks to a reference clock that is known to be accurate. Most applications require your system clock to be accurate. This is especially important if an application uses a server farm where different systems will be accessed at different […]