Canonical regularly releases new versions of the distribution, or rather twice a year - in April and October. Each new version is labeled with numbers that indicate the year and month of release.
A utility called Sudo allows a regular user to operate the program with superuser rights. To prevent an outside user, the utility asks for a password each time it runs.
At first glance, it may seem that there is nothing easier than emptying the Recycle Bin in the Linux operating system. However, beginners may have some difficulties at first.
Threading is a program abstraction for parallel execution in modern OS. The following happens with multithreaded program execution: RAM address space and open files are shared between threads in order to minimize overhead and use CPU time more efficiently.
What makes Linux different from Windows in terms of file execution is that the former system defines executable files as program files not by their extension, but by a special executability flag. Thus, each file has three modes of executability: read, execute and write.
Do you want to watch TV programs on a Linux system, and for free? This opportunity appeared with the release of Freetuxtv, a free online player that was originally developed for subscribers of French providers. But after a while, free channels and radio stations were added to it. Now there is an opportunity to watch TV programs absolutely free. So the player offers watching TV programs in more than 50 languages of the world.
Every Windows user is familiar with such a notification as "Do not turn off your computer, a system update is in progress". Now this situation can also happen when using Ubuntu system.
The final version of the Ubuntu 15.10 system has been codenamed Wily Werewolf. Since it is not an LTS version, users believe that it does not need to be installed.
Some Linux distributions have installed by default a multifunctional network connection management manager called Network Manager. The reasons are varied: the need to manage the Wi-Fi adapter, to configure the Internet from the console, there is an alternative way to manage the network. Regardless of the distribution, you can use the systemctl utility for this purpose.
There are often situations when you need to view recently created, new files in the operating system. This is often needed by a system administrator who created a configuration file and then simply forgot where it was saved. You may also need to look for new files because you need to see if a file has changed recently or not.