The Linux Compendium
PDF or the Portable Document Format is mostly our 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 file creation, viewing, and editing. Unfortunately, there is no default … 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
Debian comes with a powerful set of keyboard shortcuts that you can utilize in order to increase your productivity through minimum effort. When you have a good grip on the shortcuts, you can avoid using the mouse; which saves a lot of time. You can also focus more on your work rather than following the … Read more
Flatpak is a universal package system for software deployments, application virtualization, and most importantly package management that works on all Linux distros. With a Flatpak package, you don’t need to worry about any dependencies and libraries as everything is already bundled within the application itself. A notable feature of Flatpak is that all apps work … Read more
It is a good idea to keep your confidential data in an encrypted location to prevent unauthorized access. It becomes more important when you share your computer with others. Encryption encrypts the information so that it is unreadable to anyone. It, therefore, prevents others from accessing your data and seeing what’s inside. It can only … Read more
Swap space (which is known as paging in Windows) is part of the hard disk but it used as RAM for faster processing. It is utilized when a physical RAM is full. In this article, I am going to show you seven commands that can be used to check memory usage and swap space in … Read more
WildFly, formerly known as JBoss, is a free, open-source, and cross-platform application server which is now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java and helps you in building great applications. With its pluggable subsystems, you can configure the application as and when you need it. In this article, we will explain how a … Read more
RAM, short for Random Access Memory can be considered the workspace of your computer system. Whenever you open a file for viewing or editing, your system creates a temporary instance of that file in your RAM so that you can work on it. When you save the file, your system copies it to more stable … Read more
If you are addicted to the terminal and always find ways to do all kinds of things in the terminal, why not listen to music about it? The command line or terminal will provide everything you need in a more efficient and faster way, using fewer resources. It also becomes handier if you are using … Read more
Copying files from one location to another is a pretty basic task and can be easily achieved by using the cp command. However, sometimes, you have to do a little more. This is where the rsync command comes especially when you are transferring the larger files. Rsync (Remote Sync) is a Linux based command-line tool … Read more