Category Tutorials

If you lurk on Linux forums long enough, you will hear statements like “Systemd doesn’t follow the Unix philosophy” or “Gitlab has abandoned Unix philosophy“. But what exactly is this Unix philosophy that users keep mentioning. In this article, let’s…

If you delve into shell programming, you have come across /dev/null or 2>/dev/null numerous times. At first, this might look like intimidating abstract jargon, but there is a very important (and easy to understand) reason for which it exists. In…

If you have been using Linux for a long time, you have probably heard of Desktop Environments like GNOME which ships by default with Ubuntu, and KDE Plasma which ships with Kubuntu. You have probably also heard people talking about…

When it comes to displaying managers, we have several options to choose from, in the Linux world. They are – In this article, we are going to take a look at the differences between Gnome Display Manager (GDM) and LightDM,…

Hello folks, In this article, We will see how to install Google Earth on Ubuntu. Google Earth is a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery. It is available on Windows, Mac OS, Android, iPhone, and Linux. It is…

If you are a bash user and are jealous of zsh users getting tons of fancy themes and plugins with Oh-My-Zsh, you are at the right place. In this tutorial, we will take a look over Bash-It, a community-driven Bash…

There are a lot of compression standard and file formats on both Linux and on Windows such as .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .7z, .rar, .tar.bz .tar, .tbz2, .zip, .bz2, and many more. While you certainly can (and should) remember all the commands.…