The Linux Compendium
When working on a Terminal, you often need to reuse the commands that you have executed previously or you may even want to find the statistics of the most used commands . Most of the users know how to browse the bash history by using the arrows keys to scroll back to previous commands. But … Read more
Sublime Text is a powerful and extensively used text editor that is mostly used by programmers. It is supported on all three major operating systems Linux, Mac, and Windows. Its lightweight and intuitive user interface can adapt to any writing and programming style. It is extremely fast and has a lot of functionalities. These functionalities … Read more
Chrome is a cross-platform, secure and light web browser which is developed by Google. It can run on Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to install Google Chrome on your Debian 10 machine using the terminal. Here we go!! Requirements You need to have the … Read more
Your laptop and smartphone’s “battery” is what has given it the status of being portable. This is how much important a battery, its capacity, and its heath is. A battery, when new, is able to run for longer hours but as years pass by, your battery starts providing lesser juice. Therefore, time and again, we … Read more
If you are a frequent Terminal user, or even a newbie, you might have experienced an annoying beeping sound when you do something that is “not allowed”. For example, if you are in your Terminal and hit backspace when there are no characters to delete, this bell will ring. Another instance when this bell is … Read more
For any live website, SSL Certificates have become a key requirement. A Certificate Authority (CA) verifies and issue SSL certificates. There are two categories of these certificates: Self-Signed certificates: As the name implies, these are the certificates that are signed by the identity creating it rather than by a trusted certificate authority. It is Mostly … Read more
This article shows you step-by-step how to install Debian 10 on your server or desktop. I have installed on my VMware workstation. However, the steps are same when you install on any physical machine. Let’s continue without wasting any further time. Download Debian 10 Step 1. Download the appropriate iso image according to your processor … Read more
This tutorial focuses on commenting lines in a configuration file on Linux, the examples used here are from Debian 10. However they will work on any other linux distribution too. Lines get commented out do deactivate them. You can use this also to add comments to your config files to describe what you changed for … Read more
Emacs is a widely used open-source text editor for Linux. It exists for many years now and can be used for basic word processing, code editing, and scripting, etc. In this small how-to article, I am going to show you how to install Emacs editor on Debian 10 using the terminal. To start the installation … Read more
The uptime command shows the amount of time since the pc has been started or has been rebootet. It also shows the load average which is the percentage of CPU usage for all cores. Example: If your CPU has 4 cores, then a load average of 1.0 indicates that 1/4 of the cpu ressources are … Read more