Wine (stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a free and opensource compatibility layer that allows a Windows application to run on Unix or BSD like operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, etc. Wine creates its own Windows runtime environment. It translates Windows system calls to POSIX compliant system calls. It recreates directory … Read more
In the context of the Linux operating system, PPA stands for “personal package archive”. By using PPA anyone can distribute software packages and update directly to the Ubuntu users. PPA makes it easy to add and remove software packages that are not available in apt repositories. PPA allows one to upload Ubuntu source packages to … 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 passing any … Read more
In this post, I will explain and guide you on how to identify which wifi command is executed on your WICED device. This piece of information will be helpful when you observe a wifi command has failed on your WICED device. I have seen many people who face the problem with Wifi command related issues … Read more
We use iperf to get wifi throughput or benchmark the network stack on a WICED board. But, that does not guarantee that your WICED board is performing at its best. Is it? I have the following questions on the iperf throughput data you have got on a WICED board: How do you know if the … Read more
Earlier I published how to connect to a Linux server using SSH using the command line. This article describes how to install PuTTY which is a UI based free and open-source software (FOSS) application to connect to a PC using SSH, Telnet, rlogin, SCP, etc. Originally this software was written for Microsoft Windows later get … Read more
Iso image files are distributed as a single downloadable file for bootable OS, games, etc. It is important to know how to create an iso file from a directory or existing USB bootable drive etc. The following article guides you on the same. What is an Iso image file? An Iso file also referred to … Read more
In a product development environment in big organizations or projects like Linux kernel development where many developers work on the same project but from different locations globally in different timezones. Tracking code changes is quite difficult or next to impossible in such scenarios if not tracked. Git is a version control system that is used … Read more
When you power on a Linux system it initializes different services and runs different processes. The whole process can take some time that may vary from a few seconds to a few minutes. If the system takes unreasonably more time to boot then it is crucial to find out which process takes much time and … Read more
If you are using the Linux operating system in your system which does not need much security or you know there is no threat if you allow running the sudo command without any password, then this guide will be helpful for you. Before doing this, let’s just understand a few basic things in the next … Read more
I already briefly discussed aptitude which is a debian package manager. In this article, we will see it in more detail, and also we will discuss how can we use it in different modes, i.e. interactive and command-line mode. Aptitude is a high-level interface to the package manager that is used in Debian based Linux … Read more
In a debian based package management system the apt-cache is a low-level tool to manipulate and obtain information about packages from apt’s internal database. It creates a repository of information about the packages that are available from your source list. Apt’s database gets updated when you run apt update command. Let’s say you want to … Read more