In recent years, three different distribution independent package formats have become more prevalent in the Linux systems. These new package formats are Snap, Flatpak, and App image. And there are few others who chose an entirely different route. Linux distributions like Endless OS and Fedora entirely depend on independent package formats to run applications.

If you are coming from the Windows environment, the chances are that you may think the tmp directory is something safe to delete. That's not the case! Unless you know what you are doing, we don't want advice to remove anything in the tmp directory. Here is everything you need to know. Read on.

Crontab is the Linux equivalent of the Window's Task Scheduler. It can help you set up a task to run automatically at a regular...

Coming into the Linux world, the first and the most challenging task is to decide which distribution you want to use. There are a lot of options to choose from, each having its advantages and drawbacks. Two of the most popular distributions that exist are Ubuntu and Debian.

In this article, we will take a look at yet another popular desktop environment, KDE. It's one of the most amazing Linux Desktop environments available in the market.

Text files are an essential and integral part of any given computer system. Configuration files, programming scripts, and even documents created by users are all simple text files. Also though now there are several document formats, in the initial days of Linux, there were mostly plain text files in use. Consequently, there had to be several ways of reading text files in Linux.

All operating systems freeze at some point and, Linux distributions are no exceptions. In this post, we are going to look at five methods you can apply to your frozen system before thinking of plugging out the power cable or holding down the power button to power off the PC.

If you have interacted with Linux systems, there is a probability you have come across these two words, UID and GID. If you have no clear idea about them, then follow along with this article.