The Handbrake trans-coder is a free, open source and cross-platform solution for you to convert common media files from one format to another. The software was originally developed by Eric Petit aka ‘titer’ in 2003 for the sole purpose of
What is IDLE? IDLE stands for Integrated DeveLopment Environment. It is an IDE for Python, written in Python language itself and based on Tkinter with bindings to the Tk widget set. IDLE is most suitable for beginners as it has
What is a Root user? Before starting with how to become a root user in order to perform sensitive Ubuntu operations, it is important to have some understanding of the significance of a root user in Linux. The latest versions
When Linux was originally made public, it lacked many useful applications that the major competitor -Microsoft Windows was successfully running. Linux thus created a compatibility layer, called Wine, through which you can run the Windows applications on Linux itself. Initially,
Looking for Ubuntu version and system information on your machine can come in handy in a variety of scenarios such as downloading the relevant build of software according to your OS version. It also helps in knowing your OS version
Although Ubuntu 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
Many Ubuntu users like to use their native language as the primary input language while operating their system. The Ubuntu Settings utility allows you to add your native language, or any other available language for that matter, as the keyboard
We, the regular Ubuntu users, know that a new release of Ubuntu is made available after every 6 months. Whenever we want to move to a new version, we also want to transport our installed software, PPAs, apt-cache packages, and
With the 12.04 release of Ubuntu and afterward, your system enables the Apport Error Reporting service by default on boot. This means that time to time a large number of internal errors pop up n your Ubuntu screen. These pop-ups
A display manager is the component of your Operating system responsible for launching your display server and the login session. This is the reason it is sometimes called the login manager. The layout of the screen that you see while