The Linux Compendium
Eye of Gnome or the Image Viewer is the default picture/image viewing application in Ubuntu. It is available on most Ubuntu versions by default. It integrates with the GTK+ look and feel of GNOME, and supports many image formats for viewing single images or images in a collection. The Eye of GNOME also allows to … Read more
Ubuntu by default comes with a large number of fonts. These fonts are pre-installed in a newly installed Ubuntu OS. However, sometimes you may not be contented or get bored with these fonts and wish to install some additional fonts. There is a method I can show you how to achieve that as Ubuntu allows … Read more
SSL Certificates have become an essential requirement for any live website. SSL certificates are verified and issued by a Certificate Authority (CA). These certificates have two categories: Self-Signed certificates: Signed by an entity creating it rather than a trusted certificate authority. Mostly used for trial and development purposes and on an intranet environment. CA Certificates: … Read more
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. It’s set in infinitely-generated worlds of wide open terrain – icy mountains, swampy bayous, vast pastures and much more – filled with secrets, wonders and peril! In this article, we will explain how to install Minecraft through the official .deb package available at the … Read more
With Postman API (Application Programming Interface) development tool, you can build, modify, and test APIs. In Postman, all functionality required by a developer are integrated. As much as 5 million users per month use this tool in order to simplify their API development. In this article, we will explain how to install the latest version … Read more
Gnome Calculator is the default calculator application for Ubuntu. According to the developers, GNOME Calculator is an application that solves mathematical equations. Though it at first appears to be a simple calculator with only basic arithmetic operations, you can switch into Advanced, Financial, or Programming mode to find a surprising set of capabilities. The Advanced … Read more
Rsync (Remote sync) is a useful synchronization tool for copying and synchronizing files and directories in local and remote Linux systems. You can synchronize files between two directories on the same computer, between the directories in two systems on the same network and between two directories on the remote system. In this article, I will … Read more
Qt is a free, open source, and cross-platform application development framework for desktop, embedded and mobile. It supports various platforms such as Linux, OS X, Windows, VxWorks, QNX, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Sailfish OS, and others. More than a programming language. Qt is a framework written in C++. A preprocessor, Meta-Object Compiler is used to extend … Read more
The Linux kernel on Ubuntu is the core of the operating system. It is a mediator interface between the computer hardware and the software applications. As technology progresses, new patches are introduced in order to enhance the functionality, security, and speed of the operating system. We should, therefore, keep checking for kernel updates and upgrade … Read more
Most of the time while downloading large files from the internet, you don’t want to disturb the rest of the network from congestion as most of the network bandwidth will be consumed by the one process. In this article, we will see how to limit network bandwidth in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using Wondershaper. Wondershaper is … Read more