The Linux Compendium
Cinnamon is the default desktop environment of the Linux Mint distribution which offers advanced features and traditional user experience. It offers flexibility, speed, a traditional but elegant desktop look with the bottom panel and app menu, etc. Cinnamon is also available as an optional desktop for other Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, openSUSE, … Read more
Although Opera is not the most used and famous browser, it is still robust and compatible across many devices. Recently Opera has been added to the snap store, and now you can install it on any Linux distributions using snap package. Snaps are software packages that auto-update themselves and are safer to run, and now … Read more
Notifications on Ubuntu are designed to catch your attention while you are busy in some other task. The feature is, of course, helpful in reminding you if a shift of focus is needed for another task but sometimes it might become a hindrance as well. I, for example, have never been a fan of notifications … Read more
eSpeak is a compact open-source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. In this article, we will explain how you can install the command like tool eSpeak and its GUI alternative Gespeaker on your Ubuntu. Here is some basic intro to the two tools: eSpeak: This command-line tool takes input … Read more
ZFS is a combined file system as well as a logical volume manager that offers raid like functionality with data integrity and simplified storage management. It allows you to store and manage a large amount of data. It was first created at Sun Microsystems and now a part of the OpenZFS project. Now it has … Read more
If you are a frequent Terminal user or even a newbie, you might have experienced an annoying beeping sound when you do something that is “not allowed”. For example, if you are in your Terminal and hit backspace when there are no characters to delete, this bell will ring. Another instance when this bell is … Read more
Most of the people around the globe want to engage with the rest of the world whether living in main cities with fast 3G, 4G connections or living in area with very slow internet connectivity. Twitter is one of the ways to engage and to stay on top of what is happening in the world … Read more
The image resolution capability of today’s photo capturing devices like smartphones and digital cameras is increasing day by day. The real deal comes when we have to share these images, upload them on a cloud, or even save them on a device with restricted storage. Graphic designers also have to deal with the same issue … Read more
If you are using a shared Ubuntu system, you might be concerned about the privacy of certain files and folders residing on your system. One of the ways to make your files/folders private is to make them “hidden”. The hidden content is not listed in your File Manager or the Terminal (command line) by default. … Read more
PDF or Portable Document Format is mostly the first choice when it comes to printing, sharing and emailing documents, especially the larger ones. For Windows and macOS, you might be very much familiar, and also dependent on, the widely used Acrobat products for pdf creation, viewing, and editing. Unfortunately, there is no default, dedicated, pdf-creator … Read more