If you've used networking commands on Windows, such as ping and tracert, you might wonder if you can use them on Linux, whether on its own or part of WSL. Fortunately, you can. I remember sitting in a ...

The command prompt in a Linux terminal window is often just a $ unless you’ve logged in or sudo’ed your way into the root account, in which case you’d expect a #. Sometimes, though, your prompt will ...

Recently, I needed to check on incoming and outgoing traffic to one of my Linux machines. Fortunately, there's an easy way to do just that. Linux has a tool for everything. Sometimes those tools come ...