Linux

Flatpak is a universal package system for software deployments, application virtualization, and most importantly package management that works on all Linux distros. With a Flatpak package, you don’t need to worry about any dependencies and libraries as everything is already bundled within the application itself. A notable feature of Flatpak is that all apps work … Read more

It is a good idea to keep your confidential data in an encrypted location to prevent unauthorized access. It becomes more important when you share your computer with others. Encryption encrypts the information so that it is unreadable to anyone. It, therefore, prevents others from accessing your data and seeing what’s inside. It can only … Read more

Swap space (which is known as paging in Windows) is part of the hard disk but it used as RAM for faster processing. It is utilized when a physical RAM is full. In this article, I am going to show you seven commands that can be used to check memory usage and swap space in … Read more

RAM, short for Random Access Memory can be considered the workspace of your computer system. Whenever you open a file for viewing or editing, your system creates a temporary instance of that file in your RAM so that you can work on it. When you save the file, your system copies it to more stable … Read more

Copying files from one location to another is a pretty basic task and can be easily achieved by using the cp command. However, sometimes, you have to do a little more. This is where the rsync command comes especially when you are transferring the larger files. Rsync (Remote Sync) is a Linux based command-line tool … Read more

Oracle’s open-source and cross-platform VirtualBox is a  free and user-friendly virtualization platform especially for the desktop OS that allows you to create, run and manage guest OS on a single hardware. You can run several guest OS at the same time depending upon your system resources. In this article, we will explain how you can … Read more