When something is termed “Immutable”, it means you cannot change it. For a Linux distribution, it carries the same meaning. But, what exactly is an immutable distro? How is it different from a standard Linux distribution? Should you consider using them, or
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If you are active in the Linux community, you will often come across the debate on what’s better: PipeWire or PulseAudio? Some users prefer going back to PulseAudio, while others find solving their decade-old audio problems much better. So the question here
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Whenever a product name or branding changes, it is always confusing. And, Intel has made sure that their product lineup is no longer as simple to grasp. Every so often we cannot get over with the naming we are comfortable with, or
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Are you someone that is confused by terms like ARM, AArch64, x86_64, i386, etc when viewing a datasheet or downloads page of a software? These are called CPU architectures and I will help you dip your toes in this topic of computing.
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I’m sure you must have used the ls command to list the contents of a directory. In Ubuntu and many other distributions, you’ll see the ls command output in different colors. If you don’t see it, you can get colored output like
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In the world of Linux, few debates have stirred as much controversy as the battle between the traditional System V init system, often known as SysVinit, and the newer systemd. In this article, I’ll briefly discuss what systemd is, what advantages and
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An exit code or exit status tells us about the status of the last executed command. Whether the command was completed successfully or ended with an error. This is obtained after the command terminates. The basic ideology is that programs return the
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You may have heard this in a number of forums and discussions on the internet. Linux is just a kernel And that made you curious. Is it a kernel? Is it an operating system? What’s the difference between the two? I’ll answer
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I hope you are familiar with the concept of package managers and repositories. A repository is basically a web server that has packages (software). The package manager gets these packages from the repositories. How does the apt package manager know the address
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You never realize that typing text on the computer could be complicated until you have to deal with other languages. See how Unicode helps in such cases.