The Linux Compendium
The Handbrake trans-coder is a free, open source and cross-platform solution for you to convert common media files from one format to another. The software was originally developed by Eric Petit aka ‘titer’ in 2003 for the sole purpose of ripping media from a DVD to some data storage devices. It has gone through a … Read more
When Linux was originally made public, it lacked many useful applications that the major competitor -Microsoft Windows was successfully running. Linux thus created a compatibility layer, called Wine, through which you can run the Windows applications on Linux itself. Initially, Wine could only run a few Windows applications but now it can support thousands of … Read more
Looking for Ubuntu version and system information on your machine can come in handy in a variety of scenarios such as downloading the relevant build of software according to your OS version. It also helps in knowing your OS version when you might be getting help from online forums or working with development environments. If … Read more
Although Ubuntu users these days get to perform various operations through programs having high-end GUIs, there are multiple reasons to use the Linux command line called the Terminal. Through Terminal, you can access many powerful native Linux commands as well as the empowering command-line features of many desktop applications. You can install software to Ubuntu … Read more
We, the regular Ubuntu users, know that a new release of Ubuntu is made available after every 6 months. Whenever we want to move to a new version, we also want to transport our installed software, PPAs, apt-cache packages, and application settings & configurations with us. Moving to a new version without taking all this … Read more
A display manager is the component of your Operating system responsible for launching your display server and the login session. This is the reason it is sometimes called the login manager. The layout of the screen that you see while entering your username and password(the greeter), your login session and user authorization are some of … Read more
As a Ubuntu user, you would agree how powerful and rich is the set of commands that you can use to access and manipulate files. In this tutorial, we will explore one such command, the Linux stat command. This command, when used with a file name, gives the following useful information about the file: Size … Read more
RoR or Ruby on Rails is an open source, cross-platform web development framework that provides a structure to the developers for their code. It helps them create applications and websites by abstracting and simplifying the repetitive tasks faced during development. It is called Ruby on Rails because Rails is written in the Ruby programming language, … Read more
What is VT and why is it required? The Virtualization Technology enables your processor to act as a number of independent computer systems. This enables several operating systems to be running on the same machine at the same time. Whenever you want to install virtualization applications on your Ubuntu system such as VMware Workstation, VirtualBox … Read more
Ubuntu 17.10 and all later versions are equipped with a feature that displays all the mounted devices such as USBs and phones on your Ubuntu desktop. This functionality might be useful to some but may prove to be extra for anyone who has more useful data residing on the desktop. These volume labels mostly do … Read more