The Linux Compendium
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 assures you that the sound hardware is installed and working properly. Initially, operating systems took … Read more
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 on the system. Some other reasons to use Vi include: Vi is available on almost … Read more
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 need a backup for a website, you need to learn few basic commands for zipping … Read more
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 response from the network. We all have our favorite websites that we visit frequently; if … Read more
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 to resize, compare, animate, and view the images. Each tool has its own usage. In … Read more
What is Nano editor The Nano editor is a simple, display-oriented and free text editor that comes by default with all Linux operating systems. It is a good alternative to the non-free Pico which comes by default with the Pine package. The programs such as Vi and emacs might be more powerful, but the smart … Read more
Ubuntu is a popular operating system which is open source and has easy installation. It is quite flexible thanks to its unlimited customization options and it highly secure in nature. For many developers, journey on Linux begins at Ubuntu which is why today we will give you a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu 18.04 along … Read more
As we all know Linux is an operating system mostly used by Geeks and developers who are mostly keyboard people and love to write commands instead of using a Graphical user Interface (GUI). Unlike the Windows operating system, where most of the work done is with few clicks while in Linux, we have commands for … Read more
Every program that is running at the end of the server is able to generate one or more processes. A single server may have several users that execute many commands that will make processes. These processes may run the foreground as well as the background. If a program is running in the foreground it can … Read more