Xfce is a free and opensource desktop environment that aims to be lightweight, fast, and low on system resources while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Like GNOME, Xfce is also based on the GTK toolkit. It uses the Xfwm window manager. Adhering to the standards defined on freedesktop.org is a priority of … Read more
Software Repository A software repository(also called ‘repo’) is the database of software packages stored on a remote server. The server also contains metadata of packages. Generally, these packages are retrieved by using a package manager in the local machine. When you install a distribution of Linux it comes with a pre-configured default repository to … Read more
A file archiver is used to hold multiple files into a single archive file. And a file compression utility is used to reduce the size of these files. Archiving and compressing files makes file handling easier and faster to transmit over the network or internet. Linux provides various archiving tools one of them is tar. Also, … Read more
Looking to make a Live Ubuntu USB disk? then you have arrived at the right place. Here I will provide you direct link to the Ubuntu ISO image, Linux Live USB Creator application and guide you step by step through the installation process to create a USB bootable Ubuntu Live Disk. An Ubuntu Live … Read more
Command-line interface(CLI) is a way that allows s to interact with computer programs through commands. A issues commands to a program which gets interpreted by a command-line interpreter. Most operating system implements CLI in the form of shells that are used for interactive access of the various services or functions of the operating system. … Read more
Filezilla is a free, opensource, and cross-platform FTP application. This application is based on the client-server model. You can visit Filezilla’s website to the client and server binaries. The server binaries are available only for Windows operating system. This article will help you in installing the Filezilla client application on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. However, … Read more
In the context of the Linux operating system, PPA stands for “personal package archive”. By using PPA anyone can distribute software packages and update directly to the Ubuntu s. PPA makes it easy to add and remove software packages that are not available in apt repositories. PPA allows one to Ubuntu source packages to … Read more
When you are starting to learn Linux development or Device driver development, then the first thing you need is the Linux Kernel which is available in a zipped archive format from kernel.org. Sometimes I just the kernel to browse source code of some modules. How to the Linux kernel source? You just go … Read more
LXC (Linux containers) is the operating system-level virtualization which is used for running multiple isolated Linux systems called containers on a host machine. Unlike a virtual machine that requires dedicated system resources, Linux containers shares kernel and other resources of the host system. These isolated Linux systems have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, … Read more
Having so many Linux distros out there, it is difficult for beginners to figure out which one is better for what purpose! I am trying to answer to one such question about the two distros in this context. Both MX Linux and Manjaro are pretty new in comparison to the other popular distros like the … Read more
Sed stands for stream editor It was based on the scripting feature of ed(a line based interactive text editor in Unix). It is used to perform basic text transformation on the input stream either it is from a file or input from a pipeline. The sed was developed in 1973-74 by Lee E. McMahon of … Read more
On different distributions of Linux that use apt as the default package manager, apt-mark can be used to show, set, unset various settings of a package. The apt-mark can be used to perform various advanced istrative tasks such as it can mark a package as it is being automatically or manually installed. It can also … Read more