Startup applications are the programs that are launched automatically when Ubuntu boots up. Sometimes you want to make an application start after you log in to the system, like for instance a chat app or fan controller (more…)
Back in 1964, Douglas C. Engelbart created the wildly popular computer mouse. The design was simple, consisting of a wooden body complete with a circuit board and two metal wheels to (more…)
Sometimes when users try to install an application by executing the usual apt command on Ubuntu, they get the following error: (more…)
Sometimes we want to see the sizes of files as returned by the ls command displayed in some reasonable format or in other words in human readable presentation.
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Many users, beginners and advanced are sometimes confused on how the PATH environment variable is handled on Linux. Why there are so many files .bash_profile, .bashrc,.profile , .bash_login ? (more…)
Smart devices (mainly phones) usage has been the largest drive of raised screen usage. Between 2015 and 2017, the time adults in the U.S spent using their smartphones more than (more…)
To learn how copy a file from another machine or how to transfer files between two computers, you can use the scp utility. In this short tutorial you will see how to achieve this using simple commands. (more…)
In this short article, we shall provide a simple explanation of the differences between login and non-login shells as well as between interactive and non-interactive shells. (more…)
When a Linux system has an out-of-memory error or runs out of RAM, .i.e. can no longer store data in the virtual memory, it will temporarily use swap space in order to increase the size of the virtual memory available. (more…)
Nowadays, Linux hosting is used by many if not by most Web hosting providers. If you have a small website, you won’t care too much about which OS is hosting your website since all what (more…)
