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Top 5 Free and Open-Source Office Suites

This article covers the most efficient, free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible office suites. Apache OpenOffice tops our list of the best office suites available in the market, however, the paradigms to follow, i.e., LibreOffice, OnlineOffice and Calligra also offer a competitive user experience and list of features. All the discussed paradigms incorporate a wide list of integrated tools that allow users to create, maintain and edit any kind of data, e.g., Calligra offers an enhanced list of ten different components (or tools) that allow users to almost do anything they want, from taking random notes to creating mathematical formulae, all features are provided in one enhanced and feature-packed paradigm. 

Microsoft Office is though a great competitor to the here discussed office suites, however, the paradigm is neither free nor open-source which makes its feature limited. The open-source paradigms offer a continuous platform to extend capabilities and functionalities thereby providing its users an unending sea of features and functionalities.

Office suite are a bundle of productivity software. The primary program contains a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software. It is a set of business applications with the same style of the user interface. 


Benefits of using free Office Suite:

  • Drafting documents
  • It helps you to calculate difficult formulas in minutes.
  • Allows you to writer blogs, articles, reports, with grammar correction tools.
  • Creating spreadsheets and presentations.
  • It helps you to keep track of what is going on.


Install Duplicity on Ubuntu 20.04 - Best Method ?

This article covers the process to install duplicity on Ubuntu 20.04 and how to use it. Duplicity is an open-source tool that helps people create backups of their data. It basically just encrypts the user's data and stores it into a remote server. It's a very convenient and smart way to back up data, as it does not only store the data but also any changes made to it in the long run. This attribute makes Duplicity very space-efficient.


To Install Duplicity on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,

1. Update the Package Repository:

$ sudo apt-get update -y

2. After updating the repository, consider running the following command to install duplicity:

$ sudo apt-get install -y duplicity

3. Verify the Installation:

$ apt-cache policy duplicity


Install KDevelop in Ubuntu 20.04 - Best Method ?

This article covers How to Install kdevelop in Ubuntu Linux System. KDevelop is a robust IDE that includes useful extensions, and also several high-quality features. KDevelop is a great option of IDE for Linux distributions due because of its stability and security.

To Install kdevelop software package in Ubuntu, run the following command:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kdevelop


Add and Remove User in CentOS 8 - Best Method ?

This article covers how to add a user as well as how to remove it in case you no longer need it. We also described how to add and remove a user to and from a group. If you are using Ubuntu distribution, visit how to add or remove users in Ubuntu

You may need to create separate account for every user want to connect this system. To add new users in system there are two commands available in your system, useradd and adduser. adduser command is the enhanced version of useradd command. adduser command uses useradd command in backend. 


Linux Touch Command Examples - How it works ?

This article covers a few basic examples of the touch command. For more information use 'man touch' to view the manual page. In fact, the touch command is a standard command used in UNIX/Linux operating system which is used to create, change and modify timestamps of a file.


Touch Command Options

  • -a to change the access time only.
  • -c if the file does not exist, do not create it.
  • -d to update the access and modification times.
  • -m to change the modification time only.
  • -r to use the access and modification times of file.
  • -t creates a file using a specified time.


Install Google Cloud SDK on Ubuntu 20.04 - Best Method ?

This article covers how to Install and Set Up Google Cloud SDK on Ubuntu 20.04. The Google Cloud SDK provides us with the ability to access the Google Cloud via the terminal. It is a development toolkit that comes with multiple commands that help in managing the resources within the Google Cloud environment.