The Linux Compendium
Opera may not be as famous as Google Chrome and like other today’s browsers, but it offers fast browsing and many other useful features. You can install Opera on all major operating systems like Windows, Mac, and Linux. The main features of Opera are including browser based-VPN, built-in ad blocker, enhanced battery life, pop-up blocking, … Read more
Most of the Windows users know the basic use of the Task Manager. Task manager is a Windows utility through which users can monitor the currently running processes. Similarly in Ubuntu, the htop utility provides the same functionality with more advanced features. Htop is the improved version of the top command-line utility. Using the htop … Read more
In Linux, the sudo command allows us to perform administrative tasks. However, you might have noticed that you have to provide sudo password again after some period of inactivity. It occurs because of the time limit for your sudo session which is 15 minutes by default. If you execute a sudo command along with a … Read more
Why Change the Login Screen? You may have noticed that the latest versions of Ubuntu, such as Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, like all previous versions, have a very simple-looking login screen. Whether you like it or not, you’ll notice this purple screen every time you log in or lock and unlock your system. If, like … Read more
NFS or Network File System is a distributed file system protocol originally developed only by Sun Microsystems. Through NFS, you can allow a system to share directories and files with others over a network. By sharing NFS files, users and even programs can access information on remote systems almost as if they were on a … Read more
If you use any of your devices that operate on a battery quite often, then it gets very important for you to keep an eye on your power consumption. At times when you overlook this aspect, the batteries of your devices get drained very quickly due to poor usage. Therefore, you should always keep track … Read more
On computer systems, you either set the clock manually or set it to automatically sync with internet based servers. The best practice is to have it sync automatically with internet time servers unless there is a need of manual setting. Also you should make sure the clock is correctly synchronized otherwise it may cause issues … Read more
Jitsi Meet is a free, open-source, secure, simple, and scalable video conferencing solution that you can use as a standalone application or embed it into your web application. The Jitsi Meet client runs in your browser, so you don’t need to install anything on your computer. With Jisti Meet you can stream your desktop or … Read more
While facing slow internet access speed on your systems, the first thing we want to do is check the internet speed in order to troubleshoot slow connectivity issues. Checking internet speed also comes in handy when you have switched to a new internet connection and you want to assure if you are actually getting what … Read more
LAMP or LAMP stack is a very useful open-source development platform designed for Linux. It is called LAMP as it uses Linux as an OS, Apache as the webserver, MySQL as Relational DBMS and PHP as the scripting language. Installing LAMP on Ubuntu is fairly simple. This article describes a very convenient way to install … Read more