The packaging system in NixOS is its strongest point. The Nix package manager uses a vastly different syntax than apt, dnf and other package managers. In this guide, I will share two ways to install and remove packages on NixOS: Using the
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DOSBox is free and open-source software that allows you to emulate the MS-DOS operating systems from the previous century. Why would you want that? For nostalgia as it allows you to play the 8-bit games that were popular in the 80s and
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Workspaces are virtual desktops that allow you to juggle and organize a collection of application windows. Instead of cluttering all the windows in one screen, you can have multiple windows in different workspaces. This way, your desktop workspace stays organized, and you
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Lots of interesting development from Ubuntu, Pop OS and Fedora this week. GNOME 44 and KDE Plasma are also gearing up for their next major version release. 💬 Let’s see what you have this week: Sneak peek into the features of Fedora
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Pgadmin4 is a free and opensource web-based administration and development platform for PostgreSQL. It interacts with PostgreSQL database server on both local and remote servers and displays server statistics using intuitive and interactive dashboards. Pgadmin4 is a rewrite of Pgadmin 3 and
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The ls command in Linux is used for listing the contents of directories. You can think of ls as a short form for list. There is more to just listing what a directory consists of. You can see the file size, the
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If you can use the Nix package manager on any Linux distro, why should you install the NixOS? I often wondered about the same before using NixOS for a few days. Once I realized the benefits, I wrote about it to help
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In this guide, we are going to cover how you can install Golang Go on Ubuntu Linux step-by-step. For demonstration purposes, we will use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as our Linux environment. Go is also referred to as Golang, it is a free
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Linux may be tough, but you are tougher 💪 💬 What you get in this week’s issue: Terminal Basics series continues with a new chapter on making directories Beginning of a Nix OS starter series Twitter and DreamWorks plan to open source
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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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