The Linux Compendium
On all newer Ubuntu installations, Ubuntu activates the Apport Error Reporting Service by default at boot time. This means that from time to time, a large number of internal errors will appear on your Ubuntu screen. These pop-ups are a function of the internal debugger, which automatically generates reports for all your system packages that … Read more
Image capture (taking screenshots) is a powerful feature, especially when it comes to sharing technical guides, blogs, tutorials, and workarounds over the Internet. Ubuntu ships with a standard image capture tool, Screenshot, but it lacks many useful features. Also, the keyboard-focused screen printing utility is very basic and lacks many features needed to create a … Read more
R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It can be considered as a different implementation of the S language with much of the S code running unaltered in R. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering) and graphical techniques. … Read more
UVdesk is an open-source helpdesk platform. It is designed to provide a convenient web-based helpdesk for companies that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. You can set up an account, build your own support center, and try out many different ways of interacting with customers. There are lots of features so you will … Read more
Apache Maven is a free, open-source project management software that manages the creation, reporting, and documentation of a project from a central location. It is based on the concept of a project object model and is used in particular for the deployment of Java-based projects. Apache Maven facilitates the daily work of Java developers and … Read more
Grub Customizer is a useful UI tool for changing the default settings of the Grub boot loader. With this tool, you can add, remove and rearrange boot menu entries. You can edit kernel parameters and also change the boot time delay to boot from the default entry. The software also allows you to make cosmetic … Read more
Envoy Proxy is a high-performance proxy server with a small memory footprint enabling it to run on embedded devices such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers. Originally developed for the Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller, Envoy Proxy is now used by a number of major web properties and applications. Do you want to learn how … Read more
SQLite is a lightweight cross-platform relational database engine. It is widely known for its efficiency and its ability to be connected with various programming languages. SQLite is released under an OpenSource license, so it’s free to use. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use SQLite on Ubuntu 20.04, the same … Read more
Angular is a free and open-source JavaScript-based framework for developing single-page applications, it is the successor of the AngularJS framework. It is maintained by Google, the same company that created JavaScript and made Angular a household name. According to Google Developers, it can be used on top of “MongoDB, Node.js by IBM, Express by Nodejitsu”, … Read more
Apache ActiveMQ is an open-source message broker written in Java. It supports several cross-language clients and protocols. The Apache ActiveMQ message broker is a fast, reliable, scalable, and totally integrated open source messaging platform for handling lots of messages (ingest) or lots of consumers (dispatch). It uses memory as the storage format; it can be … Read more