The filesystem hierarchy standard (FHS) is a filesystem standard that is used in most Unix-like OS, most notably Linux. It is maintained by the Linux Foundation. Examples of Unix-like OSs not using FHS intentionally are GoboLinux and NixOS. Booting /boot…
This post explains some different package managers available for Linux operating system. List of Linux Package Managers Linux package managers featured on this post: Distribution-dependent packages Dependent packages requires that when an app is installed are its dependencies are installed…
This post explains ways to run streaming media apps on Ubuntu. As a general answer, none of the streaming media services have an official dedicated app for Linux or Ubuntu. However, its content can be watched from specific browsers (mostly…
This post explains how to change keyboard layout on Ubuntu. Step-by-step Instructions about how to change keyboard Layout on Ubuntu As of Ubuntu 20.10, go to Activities overview (the button with 9 dots on the bottom left corner and type…
This post gives some hints about how to solve issues related to having no sound on Ubuntu operating system. How to find a Solution to the no sound Issue on Ubuntu Ubuntu has a very useful page with advice about…
This post lists some mobile phones that are focused on privacy by design and it is its primary goal. Because to ensure privacy you need to rely on the operating system running on the smartphone, smartphones focused on privacy will…
This post summarizes some operating systems (OS) for mobile phone based on Linux. List of mobile OSs based on Linux Mobile OSs featured on this post: Android Open Source Project (AOSP) AOSP is the acronym for Android Open Source Project.…
This post explains how to update and install packages in Ubuntu from a terminal. It also explains how to perform a version upgrade. apt-get and apt is the same command. We use apt in this post because is shorter. To…
This post explains what a sound server is, specifically in a Linux context, and provides a list of Sound Server APIs for Linux. What is a Sound Server? A sound server is software that manages the use of and access…
This post is about how to convert a computer with vanilla Ubuntu OS installed into a FOSS DAW. The steps will be quite similar for other GNU/Linux distributions, but extra steps may be needed, for example, to allow JACK working…