The Linux Compendium
“R” is a programming language that was designed for statistical computing back in 1993. The best thing is that this language is still being used extensively especially for data analysis purposes during research. In today’s article, I will show you how to install the “R” Toolchain on Linux Mint 20. Installing “R” on Linux Mint … Read more
Most new Linux admin users of CentOS 8 do not know how to reset or change the sudo password from the command line environment. It is a good practice for security reasons to regularly change the password of each system user. This habit is important for superuser, who has special privileges to perform all sensitive … Read more
Whenever we talk about configuration management tools, the name that we hear most often is Ansible. It is a cross-platform tool that is designed to handle system configurations while working with Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. Today, we will try to throw light on the procedure of installing Ansible on Debian 10. Installing Ansible … Read more
At times, in a computer system when applications are running the system might freeze and does not respond. This seems annoying since users are not even able to close the program by using the X icon on the UI of the application. This is because the processes/applications are not responding and they will not simply … Read more
GNU Debugger (GDB) is an open-source debugger for GNU Systems. The debugger is portable and can be used for multiple languages as C/C++ and Fortran. It can be used for debugging programs by observing their states on specific breakpoints and even altering the flow or values for further execution. Usually, the GDB runs in command-line … Read more
Gradle is a well-known software build-tool that is mostly used for development in Java, C++, and Swift. By combining all of the best features of Ant and Maven, it brings the best development practices to its users. Instead of using XML language for scripting, Gradle uses Groovy which is an OO language for defining the … Read more
Etcher is an open-source USB image writing tool that is extensively used all across the world. It is a tool that is available for many operating systems like Windows, Mac, and all of the major Linux platforms. In this article, we will provide users a walkthrough of how to install Etcher on the Ubuntu 20.04 … Read more
MySQL is one of the most commonly used relational database management systems (DBMS). It allows you to work very efficiently with large bulks of data. The most important entity of any database is a table. There are multiple different operations associated with this entity with which you can manipulate your data. Therefore, today we will … Read more
MySQL, named after the daughter of co-founder Michael Widenius, is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Supported by Oracle, MySQL is compatible with nearly all platforms, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It is often the preferred choice for online publishing and web-based applications, and is used by major companies such as Facebook, YouTube, and … Read more
On Linux-based systems, the root account holds the highest level of authority in the user role hierarchy. The root user has complete control over the system, including the ability to modify and override other users’ permissions. Typically, users must have the root user’s authorization to make any system changes. In Ubuntu systems, the root account … Read more