How To Set Root Access While Using Linux Mint Terminal

Using the Terminal in Linux Mint is much much more frequent than using the command prompt in Windows. Here is a simple way to set the given Terminal session as root till the time it is exited. To switch from the existing logged on user in Mint Terminal to root, just open the Terminal and type in sudo -i [If you want to see what the current user name is, use whoami as shown, after executing sudo -i...

Quickly Change Computer Name In Linux Mint

Alright,you may have often wondered about how to change your computer name to something cooler than what it is. In Linux Mint/Ubuntu,it is very easy to change the current system/computer name straight from the terminal. To do this : 1.Open Terminal and first change to the almight root,use sudo -i and enter the root password. 2.Type hostname <new hostname> I have used ironbutterfly [now that’s...