A computer program that allows us to edit plain text is called a text editor. Text editors are improving day by day many of them can be used as IDE to write code in various programming languages and provide features such as syntax highlighting, text formatting, etc. On a Linux system, text editors broadly can … Read more
Printing a file is one of the basic functionalities provide by the linux operating system, rather than just printing a file its provides us with a variety of options like to reformat it to adjust the margins, highlight some words, change text orientation and more. Undoubtedly we can print a file directly without ing any … Read more
Sometimes we need to collectively execute commands in Linux and redirect the whole output to a file. To serve this purpose command grouping is used. Many Linux s don’t know what is command grouping in Linux and how to use it. In this article, we will explain the command grouping in Linux and its usage. … Read more
The cockpit is a web console that makes it easy to ister the GNU/Linux server. It has a -friendly web-based interface that enables you to carry out different system tasks in a browser. You can even access the server on your mobile using a web browser. We can install the cockpit in the Ubuntu … Read more
Every computer stores various types of data on a storage device such as hard disk, USB drive, etc. This data need to be positioned in a systematic way so that whenever needed operating system can fetch it easily. A huge storage disk is divided into smaller chunks of sectors of size 512 bytes. Any data … Read more
What Is init In Unix or Unix based systems init is the first process that gets started during system boot. It is the parent process of all the processes that are running into the system. It automatically adopts all the processes that get orphaned. init holds the process id 1. Once it gets started it … Read more
Ubuntu comes in two releases the first one is LTS and the second is standard versions. LTS (Long Term ) version is released once in two years while standard versions are released once in six months. The for LTS is given for five years and for standard versions it is nine months. In this … Read more
A system requires different programs for accomplishing different tasks. The boot loader is the first program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system’s kernel. Grub and Lilo are two boot loaders that are used in Linux/ Unix operating systems. Grub is predominantly used for … Read more
An environment variable is a variable whose value is set outside the program, typically through a functionality built into the operating system. Usually, environment variables contains information such as drive, path, or filename. The environment variables can be set, recalled, and cleared with exactly the same syntax used for normal variables but we don’t often … Read more
Zip is an archive file format that s lossless data compression. Zipping and unzipping tools are available for various platforms. Windows and macOS and many other OS are providing built-in zip . These files generally use .zip or .ZIP file extension. A zip tool allows you to specify the compression level from 1 to 9. … Read more
Creating multiple divisions of a physical disk is known as disk partitioning. Each division created is called a partition. Partitions make it easy to organize and share the data on a disk. You can edit and manipulate these partitions for various purposes. While installing the Linux operating system sometimes you may need to manually create … Read more
As I already discussed the differences between Unix and Linux operating systems. FreeBSD is an operating system based on Unix. Today in this article, we will discuss the differences between FreeBSD and Linux operating systems. What is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is a free and open-source operating system. It is descended from BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) which … Read more