Linux

You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to…

This article will explain how to add (install) a new certificate to the trusted root certificate list on Linux.

Squid is probably the most known and popular open-source caching proxy server. The squid proxy server supports a lot of caching protocols (ICP, HTCP, CARP, WCCP), and allows to proxy…

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) allows you to run native apps, write scripts, and run bash Linux commands and scripts directly from within Windows without the need for emulators or…

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…

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…