The Linux Compendium
PDF or Portable Document Format is usually our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing, and sending documents, especially larger documents. On Windows and macOS, you probably are familiar with and rely on the widely used Acrobat products for viewing and editing PDF files. Unfortunately, there is no standard PDF editor on your Linux … Read more
What is iptables? Iptables is a command-line firewall program that allows or blocks traffic based on the policy chain used. Iptables takes a packet-based approach to monitor traffic. When a program tries to connect to your system, iptables looks for a rule from a predefined list. If a rule is not found, it falls back … Read more
The performance of a computer or server environment very much depends upon the system memory and disk usage. If something is consuming more disk space then it will lead to a system error. Likewise, increasing log file size must be controlled to reduce such risk. Logrotate was introduced as a system utility that rotates, compresses … Read more
We all know how important it is to use strong passwords for our systems, online accounts, and other sensitive applications. The real question is how you generate a password that you can rely on and that meets the criteria of a strong password. Ideally, a strong password must contain lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and … Read more
There are many free and open-source video players for Ubuntu. Most of them do the basic tasks pretty well and you won’t miss anything you know from Windows that you could use on Ubuntu. However, some players offer additional features and you can choose which one is best for you based on the feature list. … Read more
TLP is a free, open-source, and feature-rich utility for optimizing battery consumption on laptops running Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. You can find it in both CLI and GUI versions for your convenience. TLP comes with a default configuration that is pretty much perfect for your operating system and the underlying machine. All you need … Read more
If, like me, you like to do all your Ubuntu tasks from the command line, you’ll also be looking for ways to play audio files, especially mp3s, from the command line. In this article, we’ll tell you how to install and use the famous command-line program Sox to listen to mp3s in your terminal. We … Read more
GNU Octave is an interpreted high-level programming language with numerous software features intended mainly for numerical computations. It provides solutions for numerical linear and nonlinear problems and for performing various other numerical experiments with compatible languages such as MATLAB. Octave provides extensive graphical features for visualization and data manipulation. Typically it is used through its … Read more
Android Studio is the most widely used Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android mobile application development. Android Studio is developed by Google and can run on various operating systems such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. Most of the currently popular Android applications are developed using Android Studio. This tool has several built-in features that provide … Read more
As with all other operating systems, Linux has services and other processes that run in the background to perform certain important functions while the system is running. When the system is booted, the services start automatically and continue to run in the background until the system is shut down. However, you can also start, stop … Read more