You may not have noticed but there was a little theme redesign that took place this week. Thanks to the efforts of Thimira, some tutorial series are now organized in ‘course format’. Which means you can easily follow all the tutorials in
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So you are running Linux inside Windows using WSL. And you are wondering how you can shut down the Linux distribution running in WSL. You can surely try the shutdown command from within the Linux system running in WSL: sudo shutdown now
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SCP reads for Secure Copy Protocol, which uses SSH to securely copy files over the network. Personally, I found this command quite helpful as I constantly play around with multiple VMs for testing. But the question is: How do you use this
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Recently, I was asked to join a conversation about computing’s beginning. Some of the questions floated were: “When did standard computing really begin?” “What caused it?” “How does it affect us today, if at all?” These individuals had backgrounds in programming on
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Linux Mint has released version 21.3. This is the last release based on Ubuntu 22.04. The next major release will be version 22.0, probably in June. It will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that is scheduled to come at the end
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The mv command in Linux is used to rename and move files. Please don’t confuse it with the cp command. The cp command is used to copy files from one to another directory, whereas the mv command is for cutting and pasting
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In this tutorial, we will explain how to use variables in Terraform code with examples. Hard-coding values in Terraform’s main configuration file is not a good idea since this prevents the re-usability of Terraform configuration files. This defeats the goal of IaC
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ChatGPT is a powerful generative AI tool developed by OpenAI. You enter text prompts in a conversational way, and it gives you a detailed response. Sure, it is not perfect. But, sometimes it is incredibly helpful. No matter what you do with
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We are finally settling down in 2024 with impressive updates to popular Linux distributions, and new open-source projects. I hope you started what you planned with some new year resolutions! 😁 In this newsletter, we have a quiz unit to help new
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Window tilling is often associated with window managers, which lets you arrange multiple windows without wasting any display area. Guess what? You no longer have to use a window manager for basic window tiling as many desktop environments let you do that
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