The Linux Compendium
The Z shell is one of the most powerful shells ever developed, and it’s also one of the fastest. It offers features you won’t find anywhere else, such as built-in spell-checking, syntax highlighting for code, and much more. You can even configure the command prompt to display helpful information about your system status without having … Read more
XAMPP stands for cross-platform(X), Apache(A) server, MariaDB(M), PHP(P), and Perl(P). It is built by Apache Friends and basically serves as a local host or a local server. Through this local server, you can install this software on your system and test the clients or your website before uploading it to the remote web server or … Read more
Certain applications in Ubuntu require that Java Runtime Library is installed on your system. It does not come by default with most Ubuntu versions, as security is a concern when Java is installed on your system. Time and again, a regular Ubuntu user might need to verify if Java is installed on the system at … Read more
As Ubuntu users, we may want to know if we are the only ones using our network, especially the WLAN, or if there are other unwanted users exploiting our network bandwidth. This capability and knowledge are also helpful when we want to be sure that no hacker is accessing our system by connecting to our … Read more
Knowing how many packages are installed on your computer is often essential. Often there are many packages installed on your computer that you do not even know about. Many of them are pre-installed when you do a fresh install of your operating system. You may want to see and list these packages. In this article, … Read more
Netplan is the Ubuntu network configuration tool in all recent Ubuntu versions. Netplan is based on a YAML-based configuration system that simplifies the configuration process. It has replaced the old /etc/network/interfaces configuration file we used to configure network interfaces in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure networks … Read more
PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce platform that lets you run your own online store or store on the Internet. It is very well known and runs over 300000 online stores around the world. It is programmed in PHP and uses MySQL/MariaDB as its database backend. With Prestashop you can offer your ideas and products and … Read more
A Linux Administrator should be able to read and understand the various types of messages generated by all Linux systems to troubleshoot an issue. These messages, named logs, are initiated by Linux and the applications running on it. Linux continuously creates, stores, and recycles these logs through various configuration files, programs, commands, and daemons. If … Read more
When the physical memory or RAM on our system is full, we end up making use of the swap space on our systems. In this process, the inactive pages of our memory are moved to the swap space, creating more memory resources. This space is especially useful when a system is down on RAM; however, … Read more
CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test, and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler-independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. Kitware created the suite of CMake tools … Read more