The Linux Compendium
While using a network connection, you may often want to check the speed of it. In fact, it is sometimes necessary to check and keep an eye on internet speed. And what if you get internet speed on your desktop without the need of opening any browser or application. There is a way I can … Read more
Your operating system and all its applications usually maintain a set of fonts that you can use as system fonts and in various desktop and web applications respectively. Let us suppose you want to use a new font that you saw on the internet in any of your applications. Unfortunately, it is not as simple … Read more
In a production environment, it is common practice to disable network ping for a security reason so that no one can ping your server. However, by default, ping is enabled on Linux servers. In this tutorial, I am going to show you the way you can use iptables firewall to disable or enable the ping … Read more
Although Debian 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 as the empowering command-line features of many desktop applications. You can install software to your … Read more
Whenever we connect to a WiFi network, we enter the password, and if we have to use this network on a regular basis, we simply check the “connect automatically” option for future use. However, we rarely note down the password manually somewhere in a file for future reference. The problem arises when we need the … Read more
A Terminal-savvy person will find a way to perform any action while staying in the comfort zone of the command line. We mostly control system volumes through the Debian GUI but there are certain situations where you want to do it from the command line. ALSA or the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture provides audio support … Read more
TLP is a free, open-source and feature rich utility for battery use optimization on laptops running Debian and other Linux distros. You can find it in both CLI and GUI versions for whatever suits you. TLP comes with a default configuration which is pretty much perfectly tuned for your OS and the underlying machine. All … Read more
When working on a Terminal, you often need to reuse the commands that you have executed previously or you may even want to find the statistics of the most used commands . Most of the users know how to browse the bash history by using the arrows keys to scroll back to previous commands. But … Read more
Sublime Text is a powerful and extensively used text editor that is mostly used by programmers. It is supported on all three major operating systems Linux, Mac, and Windows. Its lightweight and intuitive user interface can adapt to any writing and programming style. It is extremely fast and has a lot of functionalities. These functionalities … Read more
Chrome is a cross-platform, secure and light web browser which is developed by Google. It can run on Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to install Google Chrome on your Debian 10 machine using the terminal. Here we go!! Requirements You need to have the … Read more