WordPress has been the most popular content management system for a long time now. Not only does it power over 30% of the websites on the Internet, but it also boasts a huge community of contributors who keep the WordPress ecosystem alive and strong. WordPress is primarily a PHP based...
Google Chrome, commonly referred to as Chrome, is the web browser by Google. It has been the most widely used web browser on desktops for a long time now. It is based on the free and open-source browser Chromium, also by Google. Chromium is supposed to be a lightweight browser...
Steam is arguably the best game distribution service available in today’s world. The corresponding store, called Steam Store, is home to more than 30,000 free as well as paid game titles, including market hits like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, DOTA 2 and Grand Theft Auto V. It is developed...
The root user is nothing but the default user created in Linux system with administrative privileges. Similar to older Ubuntu versions, the root user is locked in Ubuntu 20.04, and a user can never log in as root initially. The system of using the command sudo is used instead,...
The root user, which is the default user created with administrative privileges, is locked in Ubuntu by default, meaning you cannot log in to the system as a root user. The sudo command comes into play in such cases, when you need to perform administrative tasks with your own user....
MySQL is the go-to database solution for local, free, individual or enterprise usage. Developed by Oracle corporation, Ubuntu 20.04 contains the latest stable release series of MySQL, viz. 8.*. MySQL is being used worldwide on every popular platform. A rich set of MySQL connector APIs has been developed by...
Git is the most widely used decentralized version control system used in today’s software development world. Everyone from an individual developer to giant software corporations use Git in their software development processes. From beginners to professionals, it has become necessary to learn how to use Git for every programmer....
PHP, which is a recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is a popular server-side scripting language used for web development. It is an HTML embedded language and finds its use in a wide range of websites and web apps. The most popular use of PHP has been in the world...
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows you to securely and privately connect to a remote private network, for example, your office network, or the Internet in such a way as if you are directly connected to a private network. VPN works in a server-client architecture. A VPN server is deployed...
Even though it is a 20-year-old console, the Sony PlayStation 2 remains the best-selling video game console of all time. Although its successor, the PlayStation 3 was released in 2006, production of PlayStation 2 continued till 2013; a whopping 13 years. With a state of the art audio and video...
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread rapidly in March 2020, several countries introduced lockdown to tackle it in order to “flatten the curve”. This led to many corporations, especially IT companies to go completely remote during the lockdown period. With more and more employees working from home, apps like...
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) allows the user to connect to a private network remotely as if the user’s computer was directly connected to the private network. The technology was initially developed in order to allow remote access to a company’s internal private network, for employees not actually...
Java, along with its software development kit (SDK) and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) are required for not only development purposes, but also for running any Java based software on Ubuntu. In this article, we will see the various ways with which we can install Java on Ubuntu 20.04. While...
After GNOME was officially introduced with Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 20.04 is the 6th Ubuntu release, and only the 2nd Ubuntu LTS release to use it instead of the previously used Unity. Due to the ease of use and an ample number of extensions and customizations available, GNOME has...
Snappy, also known as Snap, is a package manager for Linux in which a single package, called a snap, can be installed on multiple Linux distributions. This is different from traditional package managers like dpkg, apt, aptitude, rpm, yum, which cater to a single Linux distribution or a group of...