The Linux Compendium
If you work on Linux servers, you need to check the disk, CPU, and memory usage on your system. You can easily monitor these resources with simple terminal commands. However, you must decide whether you want to monitor CPU usage, memory usage, or disk usage. All of these terms can be different from each other. … Read more
Notepad++ is an open-source and very popular source code and text editor. It was developed mainly for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It offers many more features than the Windows plain text editor. Notepad++’s main features include syntax highlighting, bracket matching, multiple document display, auto-completion, code colors, and macro recording. Notepad++ is not available by … Read more
Steam (developed by Valve Corporation) is a digital distribution service for video games. It allows you to buy, install, and play games on your system. Steam is a cross-platform solution that is available for Windows Linux and MacOS. It offers you a store with plenty of games, video streaming, and other social networking services. In … Read more
Every component of your operating system contributes somewhat to the consumption of your battery. The more active components you have at a particular instance, the more quickly you should expect your battery to be drained out. This is exactly why some people who prefer their laptop’s battery to last long want to enable low graphics … Read more
Vim is one of the most powerful and popular open-source command-line text editors. It is highly extensible and offers a lot of features that make it the top choice for most Linux users. Among many other useful features, Vim has the ability to encrypt files with a password. It is easier and quicker to encrypt … Read more
PDF is one of the most popular and preferable file formats when it comes to reading, printing, and sharing files. This is because it can be opened on almost all operating systems. In Linux, you might be familiar with many PDF readers. Foxit PDF Reader is among the popular PDF readers that are available for … Read more
Are you using the latest version of Ubuntu and looking for a way to clear your DNS cache? Then you’ve come to the right place. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to clear the DNS cache in Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04. We’ll also explain why you should clear your DNS cache from … Read more
iTunes is a media player developed by Apple Inc. that lets you download, organize, and play media on your system and sync it with other devices. iTunes can be downloaded and used on Windows and Mac, but is not yet available in Ubuntu or other Linux distributions. You can use various media players as an … Read more
This article describes how to install GNU Octave, an interpreted high-level language intended mainly for numerical computations. It provides facilities for numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for visualizing and manipulating data. Octave is normally used through the interactive command line interface, … Read more
SSH stands for Secure Shell and it is used widely as a means of accessing remote servers. The usage of SSH is recommended because it is considered a highly secure way of authenticating users remotely. Normally, we use passwords to authenticate users, however, passwords are prone to different security attacks. Therefore, they are not much … Read more