Most of the people are familiar with the use of Task Manager in Windows. It is a feature that is mainly used to view the currently running processes. Similarly, Ubuntu also provides us with a utility to monitor the system
As software testers, we sometimes need to know how a zombie process looks like on our system. We can run various tests on it if we know specifically which program and process ID is associated with that zombie process. What
When you are trying to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu, you may receive the following error: Error Message “dpkg: error: need an action option” Solution This may be because of the command you copied from somewhere and you pasted on
Google Chrome happens to be one of the most powerful web browsers these days and naturally many users attempt to install it on their system. This attempt, however, is not fruitful as this popular web browser is not available through
Whenever we use new software or a new operating system, the interface and the environment we are used to change as well. Sometimes the new environment is user-friendly and we don’t find it difficult to deal with. But sometimes the
As a Linux user, you might be pretty familiar with the drumbeat startup sound that Ubuntu plays when you boot your system. Its purpose is to greet you and tell you that the system is ready for use. It also
What is vi Editor Vi or the Visual Editor is the default text editor that comes with most Linux systems. It is a Terminal-based text editor that users need to learn, essentially when more user-friendly text editors are not available
Sometimes, when you need to create a .zip archive on a Linux machine, it is not that much easy as it is in windows. Every time, you need to download a larger number of files or numerous tasks, or even when you
Ping or Packet Internet Groper is a network management utility that can check the connection status between a source and destination computer/device over an IP network. It also helps you estimate the time it takes to send and receive a
Every time we deal with images in a command line, we need to install or use any of the command line tools. Few of them include GraphicsMagick, Scrot, Feh, Exiv2 etc. These tools allow us to convert, also help us
