The Linux Compendium
Karim Buzdar 
From time to time we have to clean up our system memory to make room for installing new programs and handling additional files. This is especially important when you have a low storage device or a limited storage capacity. Even if you have a large storage available but you are a person like me who … Read more
Grep stands for global regular expression print. It is a useful command and widely used by Linux system engineers while searching a string or patterns against regular files and in the system. In this article, I am going to demonstrate the usage of grep command with a large number of examples. I have tested all the … Read more
As a common practice, users are required to provide authentication information to log on to a Linux system. This helps in securing any sensitive or personal files, emails and other data residing on your system from any physical intrusion. However, if your system is placed at an already secure location, free from any privacy threat, … Read more
Qt is a free, open source, and cross-platform application development framework for desktop, embedded and mobile. It supports various platforms such as Linux, OS X, Windows, VxWorks, QNX, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Sailfish OS, and others. More than a programming language. Qt is a framework written in C++. A preprocessor, Meta-Object Compiler is used to extend … Read more
The Arduino software or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is open-source software that is used to interact with the Arduino controller board. Using it, we can connect and communicate with the Arduino hardware. It contains a text editor that is used for writing, compiling and uploading code in Arduino hardware. You can install and run Arduino … Read more
If you are looking for something that works in Linux as good as Winamp works in Windows, Qmmp is a great choice. Qmmp is a feature-rich audio player with support for many formats. It is written in Qt and C++ and gives you the same look and feel of Winamp so that you don’t miss … Read more
Picture-in-Picture often abbreviated, as PiP is enabled by Google for the Chrome browser. It is a handy way that allows you to watch videos in a small floating window outside the browser window or on top of any other window. It allows you to keep an eye on the video opened in their chrome browser … Read more
The terminal is a powerful tool that can be used for performing various tasks including software installation, system administration, and network monitoring, etc. The terminal with its default black background and white characters is really a helpful tool when you have to do something quickly and efficiently. But sometimes users get bored with its black … Read more
It is often annoying when a program stops working and you cannot even close it. Rebooting the system is not always the appropriate way and we search for ways to get rid of unresponsive programs, easily and quickly. In this article, we will learn about those ways including both GUI and the command line to … Read more
In one of our previous articles, we have explained how to use apt package manager in order to perform different operations like searching for available packages, installing or upgrading packages, removing packages, etc. But today, we will discuss another utility that can improve the download speed of apt packages and that is known as apt-fast. … Read more