When Linux was originally made public, it lacked many useful applications that the major competitor -Microsoft Windows was successfully running. Linux thus created a compatibility layer, called Wine, through which you can run the Windows applications on Linux itself. Initially,
Looking for Ubuntu version and system information on your machine can come in handy in a variety of scenarios such as downloading the relevant build of software according to your OS version. It also helps in knowing your OS version
Although Ubuntu users these days get to perform various operations through programs having high-end GUIs, there are multiple reasons to use the Linux command line called the Terminal. Through Terminal, you can access many powerful native Linux commands as well
We, the regular Ubuntu users, know that a new release of Ubuntu is made available after every 6 months. Whenever we want to move to a new version, we also want to transport our installed software, PPAs, apt-cache packages, and
A display manager is the component of your Operating system responsible for launching your display server and the login session. This is the reason it is sometimes called the login manager. The layout of the screen that you see while
As a Ubuntu user, you would agree how powerful and rich is the set of commands that you can use to access and manipulate files. In this tutorial, we will explore one such command, the Linux stat command. This command,
RoR or Ruby on Rails is an open source, cross-platform web development framework that provides a structure to the developers for their code. It helps them create applications and websites by abstracting and simplifying the repetitive tasks faced during development.
What is VT and why is it required? The Virtualization Technology enables your processor to act as a number of independent computer systems. This enables several operating systems to be running on the same machine at the same time. Whenever
Ubuntu 17.10 and all later versions are equipped with a feature that displays all the mounted devices such as USBs and phones on your Ubuntu desktop. This functionality might be useful to some but may prove to be extra for
If you are a true command line-savvy person like me, you might notice that the Terminal application is almost always open on your Ubuntu. Even if it’s not, you might find it a hassle to open the Terminal again and
