Linux

IPerf is an open-source command line tool designed to test network throughput between two network hosts. The iPerf allows to generate TCP and UDP traffic (load) between two hosts. You…

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) is widely used by developers, administrators, and common users to run different Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Kali Linux, Alpine), tools, and apps in Windows…

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a Windows feature that allows developers or testers to run native Linux apps, write scripts, and run bash commands directly from Windows. Starting with…

Very often ‘too many open files’ errors occur on high-load Linux servers. It means that a process has opened too many files (file descriptors) and cannot open new ones. On…

In classic Windows PowerShell versions (up to 5.1), you could use only the WinRM protocol (WSMan, port 5985/5986) to access remote computers using PSRemoting. In the newer cross-platform versions of…

In this article, we will show you how to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for SSH login on Linux using Google PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) and Microsoft Authenticator mobile app. 2FA…

Linux users can use both the MS Teams web client and the full desktop version of Teams. The desktop Teams client for Linux is available since December 2019. In this…

Let’s look at several ways to access data stored on the datastore with the VMFS file system of the ESXi host (these are configuration files, data files, and snapshots of…

There is an interesting open-source project on GitHub called vlmcsd (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd) to emulate Microsoft’s KMS activation server. You can use it to deploy your own KMS server on platforms other…

Today, PowerShell is an open cross-platform shell and scripting language that can be installed and used on Windows, Linux, macOS, and other platforms. In this article, we’ll show how to…