A zombie or a defunct process in Linux is a process that has been completed, but its entry still remains in the process table due to a lack of correspondence between the parent and child processes. Usually, a parent process
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
Netplan is the Ubuntu network configuration tool in all recent Ubuntu versions. Netplan is based on a YAML-based configuration system that makes the configuration process very simple. It has replaced the old /etc/network/interfaces configuration file that we used to use
As a system administrator, you can create and manage groups for the user accounts on your Linux system. This way, you can assign administrative & configuration rights to Ubuntu users and files & folder access permissions to an entire group
The Linux bash, also known as the shell or just the command line, lets you perform both basic and complex arithmetic and boolean operations without the need to start a calculator app. The commands like expr, jot, bc and, factor
KDE Plasma is the graphical workspace environment that is created by KDE for Linux systems. It is based on the Plasma framework and is open source. This contemporary desktop environment is highly customizable making it users’ top choice. In this
When Linux was originally made public, it lacked many useful applications that the major competitor Windows successfully supported. Linux thus created a compatibility layer, called Wine, which was used to run the Windows applications on Linux itself. Initially, Wine could
The computer name or the hostname of a system is used to identify your computer or server on a network. This can be a local network (LAN) or the internet. You are asked to set a computer name or hostname
The Linux operating system can run without rebooting not only for weeks but for years. But sometimes there is a good reason to reboot your Linux system after a week or two, depending on the situation. Most of the time
When you connect a USB drive to our system, it is usually mounted automatically and a directory with your user name is created under the media folder. You can also access it through your system’s file manager. Unfortunately, this is
