The Linux Compendium
Your laptop and smartphone’s “battery” is what has given it the status of being portable. This is how much important a battery, its capacity, and its heath is. A battery, when new, is able to run for longer hours but as years pass by, your battery starts providing lesser juice. Therefore, time and again, we … Read more
If you are a frequent Terminal user, or even a newbie, you might have experienced an annoying beeping sound when you do something that is “not allowed”. For example, if you are in your Terminal and hit backspace when there are no characters to delete, this bell will ring. Another instance when this bell is … Read more
For any live website, SSL Certificates have become a key requirement. A Certificate Authority (CA) verifies and issue SSL certificates. There are two categories of these certificates: Self-Signed certificates: As the name implies, these are the certificates that are signed by the identity creating it rather than by a trusted certificate authority. It is Mostly … Read more
This article shows you step-by-step how to install Debian 10 on your server or desktop. I have installed on my VMware workstation. However, the steps are same when you install on any physical machine. Let’s continue without wasting any further time. Download Debian 10 Step 1. Download the appropriate iso image according to your processor … Read more
This tutorial focuses on commenting lines in a configuration file on Linux, the examples used here are from Debian 10. However they will work on any other linux distribution too. Lines get commented out do deactivate them. You can use this also to add comments to your config files to describe what you changed for … Read more
Emacs is a widely used open-source text editor for Linux. It exists for many years now and can be used for basic word processing, code editing, and scripting, etc. In this small how-to article, I am going to show you how to install Emacs editor on Debian 10 using the terminal. To start the installation … Read more
The uptime command shows the amount of time since the pc has been started or has been rebootet. It also shows the load average which is the percentage of CPU usage for all cores. Example: If your CPU has 4 cores, then a load average of 1.0 indicates that 1/4 of the cpu ressources are … Read more
Your screen light is typically set to a blue shade for better viewing. However, at night time this blue light puts some extra strain on our eyes; so a better approach is to switch to a warmer light by activation of the Night Light feature. Another disadvantage of using the blue light at night is … Read more
Although Linux 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 on Linux … Read more
So yesterday, me and some geek friends were sitting and discussing the power of the Linux Terminal application. It boiled down to what is the most geekiest or Terminal-savvy thing we have ever done with our command line. A friend mentioned that he has played videos “in” the Terminal. If he had said ‘through’ the … Read more