- List all Modified File Names with Git
- ";c.write(function(){t.write(e)}).then(function(){t.close(),a.resolve(d)})}),d.src=["javascript:",'document.write("");',"try { window.parent.document; }",'catch (e) { document.domain="'+s.domain+'"; }',"window.parent."+b.fullPath(["sandbox",u])+"();"].join(""),d.addEventListener("error",a.
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- How to Easily Remember Linux Commands
- The command line can be daunting for new Linux users. Part of that is remembering the multitude of commands available. After all, in order to use the command line effectively, you need to know the commands.
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- How to Use Nmap Script Engine (NSE) Scripts in Linux
- Nmap is a popular, powerful and cross-platform command-line network security scanner and exploration tool.
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- 11 Useful split command examples for Linux/UNIX systems
- As the name suggests ‘split‘ command is used to split or break a file into the pieces in Linux and UNIX systems. Whenever we split a large file with split command then split output file’s default size is 1000 lines and its default prefix would be ‘x’.
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- How to troubleshoot RPC: Port mapper failure – Timed out error
- Learn how to troubleshoot RPC: Port mapper failure – Timed out error on NFS client. This will help you to resolve NFS mounting being timed out issue. In this article we are going to discuss troubleshooting of one of the NFS error you see on NFS clients.
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- Getting started with Kubernetes
- One of today's most promising emerging technologies is paring containers with cluster management software such as Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, and the popular Kubernetes.
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- 20 Sed (Stream Editor) Command Examples for Linux Users
- Sed command or Stream Editor is very powerful utility offered by Linux/Unix systems. It is mainly used for text substitution , find & replace but it can also perform other text manipulations like insertion, deletion, search etc.
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- Introducing container-diff, a tool for quickly comparing container images (Google Open Source Blog)
- Google has announced that it has released its container-diff tool under the Apache v2 license. "container-diff helps users investigate image changes by computing semantic diffs between images.
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- 4 Tools to Manage EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 Health in Linux
- A filesystem is a data structure that helps to control how data is stored and retrieved on a computer system. A filesystem can also be considered as a physical (or extended) partition on a disk.
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- Linux Gzip Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
- Linux offers several command line tools for compressing/decompressing files. One of them is Gzip, which uses Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77) for its compression operations. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of gzip, as well as the features it provides using easy to understand examples.
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- Important Docker commands for Beginners
- In our earlier tutorial, we learned to install Docker on RHEL\\ CentOS 7 & also created a docker container. In this tutorial, we will learn more commands to manipulate a docker container. By default, all the images that are used are pulled from Docker Hub.
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- How to Run Shell Scripts with Sudo Command in Linux
- sudo is a powerful command line tool that enables a “permitted user” to run a command as another user (the superuser by default), as defined by a security policy. On most if not all Linux systems, the security policy is driven by the /etc/sudoers file.
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- Anypaste – Share And Upload Files To Compatible Hosting Sites Automatically
- A while ago, we have written a guide about Transfer.sh which allows you to share files over Internet from command-line. Today, we will see yet another file sharing utility called Anypaste.
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- Juju GUI: get your users started with getstarted.md
- Help your users get started with your solution by providing them the first steps in using your newly deployed bundle or charm. The latest release of the Juju GUI now displays a rendered markdown file to the user after deploying a bundle or charm with a getstarted.md file.
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- How to Log in to Linux Desktop with Google Authenticator
- Have you ever wondered how to provide additional security to your Linux desktop? Google Authenticator can help provide a two-step authentication process that requires both an authentication token and your password to log into your Linux desktop.
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- Install Surge
- Simple, single-command web publishing. Publish HTML, CSS, and JS for free, without leaving the command line. From now on, I think I'm going to strive to build all my apps as fully static sites.
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- TuxArena | Guide: Show System/Hardware Information in Linux
- This is a tutorial aimed at showing how to get hardware and general system information on Linux. There are also a few examples which normally work on Debian and its derivatives, like Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
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- Setup DHCP or static IP address from command line in Linux
- Did you ever had trouble with Network Manager and felt that you need to try to setup DHCP or static IP address from command Line in Linux? I once accidentally removed Gnome (my bad, wasn’t paying attention and did an apt-get autoremove -y .. how bad is that..
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- 20 Unix Command Line Tricks – Part I
- Let us start new year with these Unix command line tricks to increase productivity at the Terminal. I have found them over the years, and I am now going to share with you. I had a huge log file 200GB I need to delete on a production web server.
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- How to rename multiple files on Linux
- In Linux, when you want to change a file name, mv command gets the job done. However, mv cannot rename multiple files using wildcard. There are ways to deal with multiple files by using a combination of sed, awk or find in conjunction with xargs.
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- Processed in digiKam: Using Perspective Adjustment
- The perspective adjustment tool in digiKam is indispensable for editing architectural shots. It can be somewhat fiddly to use, but with enough practice, you can achieve rather good results. The photo above is a case in point. The original image was a bad case of converging lines.
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- Fixing USB Autosuspend
- The Linux kernel automatically suspends USB devices when there is driver support and the devices are not in use.1 This saves quite a bit of power. However, some USB devices are not compatible with USB autosuspend and will misbehave at some point.
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- 15 Unix tricks to get your new year off to a good start
- The Unix command line provides numerous ways to make our work easier. Here are 15 "tricks" that I use often to make quick work of various tasks This one is pretty easy if you know the meaning of $NF. I came across this many years ago when I was building scripts entirely in awk.
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- Best Linux and Open Source Apps for the Enterprise in 2015
- Linux and Open Source technologies rule the enterprise segments. There are so many products and projects out there which are rescuing small and medium businesses from legacy software companies.
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- How to Set Up a Virtual Keyboard in Linux
- Virtual keyboards come in handy in many situations, for example, when your physical keyboard becomes unusable or if it’s difficult for you to type using a hardware keyboard.
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- cb2bib
- Description:From clipboard to BibTeX: A tool for rapidly extracting unformatted bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. The cb2Bib facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and nonstandard sources. Output references are written in BibTeX.
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- How to block unwanted IP addresses on Linux efficiently
- You may want to block IP addresses on your Linux box under various circumstances. For example, as an end user you may want to protect yourself from known spyware or tracker IP addresses.
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- yangodev/Flattark
- Flattark (a Brackets Theme) Flattark is a minimal dark Theme for Brackets It is based on Slickrock with custom colors See A dark, minimal theme for the Brackets text-editor.
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- How to Setup Logstash on Linux with ElasticSearch, Redis, Nginx
- Logstash is an open source central log file management application. You can collect logs from multiple servers, multiple applications, parse those logs, and store it in a central place.
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- Reset root password in Linux
- Forgetting root password is an hassle. We try to be vigilant with our security and set a complex root password. We also try not to login using directly into root account (in most production boxes) and use sudo instead.
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- How to Check the Progress of Running Commands in Linux
- Sometimes, while copying a large file, like a movie or an operating system image, the cp command takes longer than expected based on the load on your system. Since it doesn’t tell the progress of the operation, it gets difficult to understand what exactly is happening.
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- Use Logcheck to Spot Problems and Security Violations in System Log Files [Linux]
- It’s an undeniable fact that logs play an important part in uncovering software or system problems as well as malicious activities. However, with so many log files and a lot of information in each of them, it gets a bit difficult for system administrators to analyse them properly.
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- GnuPG-2.1 and the pacman keyring
- The upgrade to gnupg-2.1 ported the pacman keyring to a new upstream format but in the process rendered the local master key unable to sign other keys. This is only an issue if you ever intend to customize your pacman keyring.
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- Linux ip Command Examples
- I am a new Linux system admin user.
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- A Guide to Kill, Pkill and Killall Commands to Terminate a Process in Linux
- Linux Operating System comes with Kill command to terminate a process. The command makes it possible to continue running the server without the need of reboot after a major change/update.
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- Working with Standard Input, Output & Error in Linux
- Every process in Linux is provided with three open files( usually called file descriptor). These files are the standard input, output and error files. By default : A file descriptor is simply a number that refers to an open file.
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- 10 ‘free’ Commands to Check Memory Usage in Linux
- Linux is one of the most popular open source operating system and comes with huge set of commands. The most important and single way of determining the total available space of the physical memory and swap memory is by using “free” command.
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- Download Linux Voice issue 1 — with audio!
- Yes, it’s been nine months since the first issue of Linux Voice hit the newsstands, so we’re making it available under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.
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- 15 ‘pwd’ (Print Working Directory) Command Examples in Linux
- For those working with Linux command Line, command ‘pwd‘ is very helpful, which tells where you are – in which directory, starting from the root (/).
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- 5 Great IRC Clients For Linux
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a very long time. Many people could argue that it’s been around for too long. Still, when it comes to Linux, IRC still plays a major role.
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- Split View Patch Available For Thunar File Manager
- Since Thunar is open source software, Xfce user Román decided to take this issue into his own hands so he implemented the split view / dual pane feature in Thunar and released a patch, so everyone who wants this feature can use his work.
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- 10 pidstat Examples to Debug Performance Issues of Linux Process
- This tool can monitor an individual process that is managed by kernel and generate a report. It can monitor either a specific PID (process id), or all the process running on the system.
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- Data Recovery Techniques on Linux
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? When one of my friends called telling me that he had accidentally deleted some important files from his drive, his exasperation was understandable. It happens to everyone at some point of their computer-using lives.
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- GRUB2 101: How to Access and Use Your Linux Distribution’s Boot Loader
- Ubuntu and practically every other Linux distribution use the GRUB2 boot loader. Unless you have multiple operating systems installed, this bootloader is normally hidden — but it provides options you may sometimes need.
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- 10 Wget Command Examples
- We’ll show you 10 practical examples of Wget Command. Wget is a free utility that can be used for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP which are considered as the most widely-used Internet protocols. Its name comes from World Wide Web + get.
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- How to modify scripts behavior on signals using bash traps
- Objective The objective of this tutorial is to describe how to use the bash shell trap builtin to make our scripts able to perform certain actions when they receive a signal or in other specific situations.
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- 3 Simple, Excellent Linux Network Monitors
- You can learn an amazing amount of information about your network connections with these three glorious Linux networking commands.
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- How to install or compile GIMP filters/plugins/extensions on Linux
- Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: gimp-data libamd2 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2 libccolamd2 libcholmod3 libgegl-0.3-0 libgimp2.
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- SSH Password Testing With Hydra on Kali Linux
- Hail Hydra! Okay, so we're not talking about the Marvel villains here, but we are talking about a tool that can definitely do some damage. Hydra is a popular tool for launching brute force attacks on login credentials.
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- How to access a Linux server behind NAT via reverse SSH tunnel
- You are running a Linux server at home, which is behind a NAT router or restrictive firewall. Now you want to SSH to the home server while you are away from home. How would you set that up? SSH port forwarding will certainly be an option.
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- HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances
- You can easily configure your own cloud-init configuration into your LXD instance profile. In my case, I want cloud-init to automatically ssh-import-id kirkland, to fetch my keys from Launchpad. Alternatively, I could use gh:dustinkirkland to fetch my keys from Github.
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- Howto: Use tar Command Through Network Over SSH Session
- How do I use tar command over secure ssh session? The GNU version of the tar archiving utility (and other old version of tar) can be use through network over ssh session. Do not use telnet command, it is insecure. You can use Unix/Linux pipes to create actives.
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- How to Access Secure Shell (SSH) Servers Through Standard Web Browsers
- shellinabox is a Web based AJAX terminal emulator which was written by Markus Gutschke. It’s not maintained from original author since 2012 and Luka Krajger forked the project and maintaining upto date.
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- How to Run remote ssh command in Linux to Show result locally.
- USER –> is the username on remote server. HOST –> is the remote host on which you want to execute remote command.
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- 5 SSH alias examples in Linux
- As a Linux user, we use ssh command to log in to remote machines. The more you use ssh command, the more time you are wasting in typing some significant commands. We can use either alias defined in your .bashrc file or functions to minimize the time you spend on CLI.
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- Linux/UNIX xargs command examples
- xargs command is very handy when combined with other commands. By default it expects input from STDIN.xargs is basically used to enhance the output of the initial command and utilize the output for performing numerous operations.
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- umask - find default permissions in linux
- You may be wondering about where these file permissions come from. The answer is umask. The umask command sets the default permissions for any file or directory you create.
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- Viewing your processes through the eyes of /proc
- The /proc file system brings the processes on your Unix systems into view in some very useful ways, but only if you take the time to cd over to /proc and see all it can tell you.
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- Identify USB Driver in Linux
- This guide shows how you can identify USB Driver Chipset(most commonly Wireless) Information on Linux. Often users troll different forums and blogs to find out they can identify which driver their PCI or USB device is using.
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- How to Run Commands from Standard Input Using Tee and Xargs in Linux
- While using the command line, you can directly pass the output of one program (for example a tool that generates some system information or statistics) as input for another program (such as text-filtering or pattern searching tools like grep, sed or awk, for further processing), using a pipeline.
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- Using the Linux find command with caution
- A friend just recently reminded me of a useful option that can add a little caution to the commands that I run with the Linux find command.
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- Yay! I Found Yet Another Reliable AUR Helper
- Howdy Arch Users! I’ve got a good news for you. Today, I stumbled upon yet another reliable AUR helper called “Yay”. Yep! the name of this AUR helper is Yay. Currently, I use Pacaur for installing AUR packages. It does great job and I really like it.
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- How to Use Display Filters in Wireshark
- Wireshark is a GUI-based network packet analyser that lets you inspect packet data from a live network as well as from a previously captured file.
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- How to Create Impress.js Presentations on Linux
- There are many different ways to create slides for a presentation on Linux. You can use OpenOffice, LibreOffice or even Microsoft Office (via Wine). Your completed presentation will be either an .odp (OpenDocument format) or .
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- What is Password Hashing (and How Does It Work)?
- If you are a frequent denizen of the Internet like myself, there is a good chance you have received an email that goes something like this: Dear valued customer, Recently, our website fell victim to a cyberattack on our corporate network.
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- Beginner’s Guide to Mastering the Netstat Command on Linux
- The netstat command is an essential tool for network administration. It displays information about the Linux networking subsystem including data on open network connections, routing tables and statistics about the installed network interfaces.
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- How to Use the Linux “find” Command to Locate Files
- We have all lost files. You think a file is in a certain directory and yet when you go looking for it, you can’t find it. Most desktop-based Linux distributions have a way to find files from the desktop, but you can also find files from the command line using the find command.
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- How To Transform GIMP Into Photoshop
- Another thing that I find frustrating with GIMP is that it does not activate “Snap to canvas edges” by default even though the option is turned off by default. Unfortunately, you cannot turn this on by toggling on a setting. To make this change, we go back to the gimp folder (~/.gimp-2.8).
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- VirtualBox 5.2 to Let Users Enable or Disable Audio Input and Output On-the-Fly
- Oracle announced new updates for its popular, cross-platform and open-source virtualization software, the third Beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 5.2 major release and VirtualBox 5.1.28 stable maintenance update. We'll start with the stable update, VirtualBox 5.1.
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- Linux Free Command Explained for Beginners (6 Examples)
- Get a 12-month free trial to get you started on GCP. Try it free today. Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you might want to quickly take a look at the total available as well as used memory in the system.
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- Lay down a beat with LMMS
- One thing that confuses some new Linux users is just how modular Linux can be, and on nearly every level. It turns out to be liberating in the end, but it can be overwhelming at first.
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- How to use Synfig Studio for animation
- Animation is a robust field with a large number of specialties and an even larger number of tools for creating a particular look or style. In the past two months, I've covered Krita Animation for hand-drawn digital cel animation and StopGo for stop motion animation.
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- MagicPython : Visual Studio Marketplace
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- It's Simple to Make Visual Studio Code Match Your Gtk Theme
- Looking for a Visual Studio Code themes to match your GTK theme? Look no further! Developer Nathan ‘SolarLiner’ Graule has created a Visual Studio Code extension that allows the editor to “seamlessly integrate with popular GTK themes”.
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- How To Restore Broken Arch Linux To Previous Working State
- If you’re a Arch Linux user, you probably know that the recent Linux Kernel 4.13.x branch is causing so many issues. Yesterday, I did a full system upgrade using command “sudo pacman -Syu”, and ended up with a broken system.
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- How to Use Glances to Monitor System on Ubuntu
- Glances is a cross-platform command-line text-based tool to monitor your system. It is written in Python language and uses the psutil library to get information from the system.
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- 20 Command Line Tools to Monitor Linux Performance
- It’s really very tough job for every System or Network administrator to monitor and debug Linux System Performance problems every day. After being a Linux Administrator for 5 years in IT industry, I came to know that how hard is to monitor and keep systems up and running.
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- CloudStats.me – Easy Server and Website Monitoring from the Cloud
- CloudStats is a cloud based server and website monitoring platform that makes it really easy for you to monitor any server or website. The platform supports servers of all types (for example, cloud, vps, dedicated servers) and most operating systems (like Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and Windows).
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- How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Logging Activity of Linux System Processes
- Atop is a full screen performance monitor that can report the activity of all processes, even the ones that have been completed. Atop also allows you to keep daily log of system activities.
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- Linux Real-Time Process Monitor (Top) Explained
- Is your Linux system running slow? Want to know what processes are hogging cpu time and/or memory in realtime? Are you just plain curious about how the Linux kernel schedules tasks behind the scenes? Then you need “top,” which is a real-time process monitor command that helps monitor the runnin
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- How to Monitor Network Load From the Command Line in Linux
- If you are a network administrator, you’surely know the importance of network traffic monitoring. While there is some excellent GUI-based software available for this, if you’re dealing with command line and are looking for a command-line alternative, I’d suggest you try slurm.
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- Use VnStat to Monitor Network Traffic from Linux Command Line
- Network traffic monitoring not only helps administrators detect root causes of traffic related issues, like network overloading, but also helps them keep a tab on traffic flow to and from the Internet. Overall, it’s an important task that requires a dedicated and an effective software.
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- Saidar Is a Curses-based, Easy-to-use System Monitoring Tool for Linux
- Linux offers many system monitoring utilities; while some are popular and widely-used, like top, htop, and more, there are others that aren’t as well-known and powerful, although that doesn’t mean they aren’t useful.
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- How to Monitor Your PC’s Temperature on Linux Using lm-Sensors
- If you’re a PC nerd, you no doubt worry about the temperatures that various components output while in use. Even if you are not a nerd, you may also be concerned about the loud noise made by the CPU fan and the sudden surge in your laptop temperature.
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- Psensor – A Graphical Hardware Temperature Monitoring Tool for Linux
- Psensor is a GTK+ (Widget Toolkit for creating Graphical User Interface) based application software. It is one the simplest application to monitor hardware temperature and plot Real Time graph from the obtained data for quick review. 1.
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- 8 Useful Commands to Monitor Swap Space Usage in Linux
- Memory management is an essential aspect of every System Administrator to improve the performance of a Linux system. It is always a good practice to monitor swap space usage in Linux to ensure that your system operates relative to its memory demands.
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- How to Install and Configure Ntop to Monitor Network in Ubuntu
- Ntop is an open-source and very useful network-monitoring tool that displays a list of hosts that are currently using the network and reports information concerning the IP traffic generated by each host. You can use a web browser to monitor your network traffic, connections and bandwidth usage.
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- How to Monitor Network Bandwidth Using the Command Line on Linux
- Analyzing and monitoring the network traffic of an entire network infrastructure is a very important task for every Linux system administrator.
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- Network Monitoring: How to Get Started and Why You Consider it
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- PowerTop – Monitors Total Power Usage and Improve Linux Laptop Battery Life
- One of the most important characteristics of a good Linux machine especially with laptops is power management in terms of prolonging battery life.
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- 4 Good Open Source Log Monitoring and Management Tools for Linux
- When an operating system such as Linux is running, there are many events happening and processes that run in the background to enable efficient and reliable use of system resources.
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- How to monitor progress of Linux commands using PV and Progress utilities
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? Consider a scenario where-in you have just started copying a very large file from your pen drive to your Linux system through the command line.
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- An Easy Way To Monitor A Website From Command Line In Linux
- We all know that ping command will tell you instantly whether the website is live or down. Usually, we all check whether a website is up or down like below.
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- nmon – is a another nifty tool to monitor system resources on Linux
- nmon stands for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux & AIX, developed by IBM employee Nigel Griffiths. Initially, it was developed for IBM AIX operating system, later a version written for Linux too and released as a open source under GPL on 2009.
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- Monitor SATA and SSD Health with SMART
- Smartmontools helps you keep an eye on the health of your hard disk and SSD drives. SMART is the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology built-in to modern drives, and smartmontools reads the SMART data.
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- 16 Linux server monitoring commands you really need to know
- Want to know what’s really going on with your server? Then you need to know these essential commands. Once you’ve mastered them, you’ll be well on your way to being an expert Linux system administrator.
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- CoreFreq – A Powerful CPU monitoring Tool for Linux Systems
- We have wrote many articles about CPU monitoring Tool in past. Today we are going to teach you about CoreFreq, is a powerful CPU monitoring software designed for the 64-bits Processors which i came to know recently.
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- How to Install a Production Ready Naemon Monitoring Server
- Naemon is the new monitoring suite that aims to be fast, stable and innovative while giving you a clear view of the state of your network and applications.This is a replacement for nagios server and very stable and uses an amazing dashboard called thruk.
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- Nutty – A Network Diagnostic Tool for Ubuntu
- Nutty is a simple third party app that provides essential information on your system’s network-related aspects by displaying them in tabs.
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- Linux Watch Command, To Monitor a Command Activity
- Recently i came to know about watch command, from one of my friend when i have a different requirement. I got good benefit from watch command and i want to share with you people to get more benefit on it, when you have a problem on Linux system.
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- Cockpit – An Easy Way to Administer Multiple Remote Linux Servers via a Web Browser
- Cockpit is a free and open source web-based system management tool where users can easily monitor and manage multiple remote Linux srvers.
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- How To Monitor File Changes Using fswatch In Linux
- The fswatch is a free, open source multi-platform file change monitor utility that receives notifications when the contents of the specified files or directories are modified or changed. Using fswatch, we can easily monitor the changes being made in files or directories.
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- How to Monitor Linux System Health and Performance with Netdata
- Netdata is a tool used for health monitoring and distributed real time performance of machines. It gives insights on anything that happens to a system through web dashboards. Apart from its major function, Netdata has a number of advantages.
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- How to Install LibreNMS Monitoring Tool with Nginx on CentOS 7
- LibreNMS is an open source monitoring tool based on PHP/MYSQL/SNMP. It's a fully featured network monitoring system that provides support for wide range of network hardware and operating systems including, FreeBSD, Cisco, Linux, HP, and more.
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- Dynamic Users with systemd
- TL;DR: you may now configure systemd to dynamically allocate a UNIX user ID for service processes when it starts them and release it when it stops them. It's pretty secure, mixes well with transient services, socket activated services and service templating. Today we released systemd 235.
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- Exploding Git Repositories
- Were you able to clone it? Unless you have quite a lot of memory (both RAM and storage) git was killed, ran out of memory, or you had to reboot. Why is this? It is a perfectly formed repo made of only 12 objects.
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- Examining network connections on Linux systems
- There are a lot of commands available on Linux for looking at network settings and connections. In today's post, we're going to run through some very handy commands and see how they work. One very useful command is the ifquery command.
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- How to configure nameserver in Linux
- Beginners guide on how to configure nameserver in Red Hat, CentOs, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or Suse Linux to resolve DNS queries. Nameserver is the DNS server to which your machine query for name resolutions.
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- Blogging with org-mode and Gitlab Pages
- After the html files are ready with your juicy content, you need a place to host it. A popular option is to host it in Github Pages; however, a major drawback is that you can only use Jekyll and, to make it worse, they limit you with only a collection of plugins.
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- Timeshift A System Restore Utility Tool Review
- TimeShift is a system restore tool for Linux. It provides functionality that is quite similar to the System Restore feature in Windows or the Time Machine tool in MacOS. TimeShift protects your system by making incremental snapshots of the file system manually or at regular automated intervals.
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- 7 must-have GIMP brushes
- GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is first and foremost, as its name suggests, a photo manipulation program; however, sometimes the lines blur between photo manipulation and airbrushing, material emulation, graphic design, and even layout. In other words, GIMP isn't just for photos.
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- Linux Gunzip Command Explained with Examples
- Where work happens. All the tools your team needs in one place. We have already discussed the gzip command in Linux. For starters, the tool is used to compress or expand files.
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- How To Find Files Bigger Or Smaller Than X Size In Linux
- You want to find files which are less than or greater than a certain size in your system, how would you do that? Manually check each and every file’s size? Nah, that’s not a real System admin do. There could be always an easiest way to do things in Linux.
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- Chkservice – An Easy Way to Manage Systemd Units in Terminal
- Systemd (system daemon) is a modern system management daemon for Linux systems.
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- home
- Micro's number one feature is being easy to install (it's just a static binary with no dependencies) and easy to use. Use a simple json format to configure your options and rebind keys to your liking. If you need more power, you can use Lua to configure the editor further.
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- Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of Linux tracing
- Demo from the USENIX/LISA 2016 talk: Linux 4.X Tracing Tools: Using BPF Superpowers. Full talk slides and official video will be available at https://www.usenix.org/conference/lis... . This video is the 15 (more like 18) minute demo that spans ftrace, perf, and BPF. LISA is a registered trademark of
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- PulseAudio under the hood
- I’m working on the Roc open-source project, a development kit for realtime streaming over an unreliable network. (The project is not ready for use yet, but in case you’re interested, you can follow updates on my twitter).
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- How To Use Ping, fping, and Gping For Varies Purpose In Linux
- Whenever users come to know their website or server is down, immediately they will fire ping command to verify that a host computer can connect to the TCP/IP network and network resources. Ping is a vast tool which was used by everyone around the world.
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- Linux Groups Command for Beginners (with Examples)
- Get a 12-month free trial to get you started on GCP. Try it free today. In Linux, there's a concept of users (those who use the system), and then there's the concept of groups, which is basically a logical mechanism to manage a collection of users.
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- Mount Google Drive On Linux With Google Drive Ocamlfuse Client
- Most of us had a gmail account for email communication, moreover everyone use google drive as well to store documents. Google drive is a traditional cloud storage and offering 15GB is Free of cost.
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- A quick tour of MySQL 8.0 roles
- This year at the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference in Dublin, I'll be discussing a new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0: roles.
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- What's behind the Linux umask
- The umask setting plays a big role in determining the permissions that are assigned to files that you create. But what's behind this variable and how do the numbers relate to settings like rwxr-xr-x?
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- Rename All Files and Directory Names to Lowercase in Linux
- In our previous article, we have described how to count the number of files and subdirectories inside a given directory. This guide will show you how to rename all files and directories names to lowercase in Linux.
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- Install Htop 2.0 – Linux Process Monitoring for RHEL, CentOS & Fedora
- This article is the continuation of our Linux system monitoring series, today we’re talking about the most popular monitoring tool called htop, which is just reached to version 2.0.2 and comes with some cool new features.
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- 15 simple TOP command examples on Linux to monitor processes
- One of the most basic command to monitor processes on Linux is the top command. As the name suggests, it shows the top processes based on certain criterias like cpu usage or memory usage.
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- Smem – Reports Memory Consumption Per-Process and Per-User Basis in Linux
- Memory management in terms of monitoring memory usage is one important thing to do on your Linux system, there are many tools available for monitoring your memory usage that you can find on different Linux distributions.
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- How to Find a Process Name Using PID Number in Linux
- In this article, we will look at how to find a process name by its process identification number (PID). Before we dive into the actual solution, let us briefly talk about how processes are created and identified by Linux.
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- Reptyr – Move a running process to a new Terminal
- Let us say, you are running a long process in a remote server via a SSH session from your local system. You didn’t expect the remote job would take too long to complete.
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- Limit CPU Usage of a Process in Linux with CPULimit Tool
- In an earlier post, we’ve explained CPUTool for limiting and controlling CPU utilization of any process in Linux. It allows a system administrator to interrupt execution of a process (or process group) if the CPU/system load goes beyond a defined threshold.
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- How To Find Out How Long A Process Has Been Running In Linux
- Ever wanted to know how long a process has been running in your Linux box? Well, you’re on the right track. This brief guide helps you to find out the uptime of an active process. You don’t need any monitoring applications.
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- How To Speed Up Compilation Process When Installing Packages From AUR
- There are many reasons why I (and everyone) prefer Arch Linux over other Linux distributions. It is a rolling release, so you will always have the last version of your applications. And, other notable reasons are Pacman, Arch User Repository (AUR), and Arch Wiki.
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- 4 Awesome ways to find top memory consuming processes in Linux.
- In my earlier article we had discussed how to find top CPU consuming processes in Linux Now its time to find top memory consuming processes in Linux. This article will help you with how to quickly find top memory consuming processes in Linux.
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- Begin Mining Ethereum On Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux
- Objective Set up Ubuntu 16.04 for Ethereum mining. Distributions This guide was tested for Ubuntu 16.04, but many principles will hold true on other distributions. Requirements A working Ubuntu 16.04 installation with root privileges. You also need a modern GPU with more than 4GB of RAM.
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- How to perform pattern search in files using Grep
- Live Your Life. Learn to Code. Get ahead without putting everything on hold. In our first article on the grep command, we covered quite a few features the tool offers, including how you can use it to search only for words, search for two words, count lines containing matched word, and more.
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- Complete Guide: Linux grep command
- Linux grep utility is famous for filtering the output or finding the specific words within a file. This post will touch major options available within Linux grep utility. Basically Linux grep command is short form of “Global Regular Expression and Print).
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- Linux fgrep Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
- Get a 12-month free trial to get you started on GCP. Try it free today. While grep is a well-known Linux command (we've already covered it in detail), do you know that there exist two different variants of this tool? Yes, these are egrep and fgrep.
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- Grep command with Regular expressions examples -III
- In our the previous post we saw how to use Basic regular expression along with grep to search for words and played across different basic regular expressions.
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- Scrivener Alternatives and Similar Software
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- 12 ip Command Examples for Linux Users
- For years & years we have been using ‘ifconfig‘ command to perform network related tasks like checking network interfaces or configuring them. But ‘ifconfig’ is no longer being maintained & has been deprecated on the recent versions of Linux.
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- Linux fold command tutorial for beginners (with examples)
- While working on the command line in Linux, one thing that you'd have probably missed is how the output gets displayed in terminal. I mean, the way it fits the available area.
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- AtF Spark
- To use Spark all you need is a font file, some text, and an application that can make use of OpenType Contextual Alternates, e.g., a new-ish web browser, Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator. Spark data needs to be formatted as comma-separated values, with curly brackets at both ends of the set, e.g.
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- Wikit – Get Wikipedia Summaries From Commandline In Linux
- Wikipedia has several millions of articles and the number of articles are steadily increasing every single day. It is the first place that comes to my mind when I’m looking for knowledge. Today, I have stumbled upon a simple, yet useful command-line utility called “Wikit”.
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- Use Aircrack-ng To Test Your WiFi Password
- Objective Test the security of your WiFi password by attacking it Distributions This will work with any Linux distribution, but it's recommended that you use Kali. Requirements A working Linux distribution with a WiFi adapter and root privileges.
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- How to Make GIFs from Video on Linux
- Next time you’re looking for an easy way to create a GIF from video on Linux give the following app a try. It’s called Gifcurry and it is a video to gif app with a simple user-interface and some useful features.
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- How to use getopts to parse a script options
- Objective Learn how to use the bash getopts builtin to parse a script options Operating System and Software Versions Operating System: - All Linux distributions Requirements No special requirements, just access to a bash shell Difficulty MEDIUM Conventions # - requires given command to be executed
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- 20 Linux Command Tips and Tricks That Will Save You A Lot of Time
- Brief: Here are some tiny but useful Linux commands, terminal tricks and shortcuts that will save you a lot of time while working with Linux command line.
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- Get Started With GNUPlot
- GNUPlot is an actively developed freely distributed non-open source command line graphing and plotting software tool that was initially released back in 1986.
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- Linux expr command tutorial for beginners (with examples)
- Kick-start your open source projects with access to hundreds of frameworks Sometimes, while working on the command line (especially when dealing with a shell script), you may find yourself in a situation where you have to perform actions like searching for a substring in a string, finding its inde
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- A Linux File Manager Built Using Electron
- We’ve written about plenty of Electron apps, from music players to e-mail clients, code editors and chat tools — but the following tool the first Electron file manager we’ve come across! It’s called JumpFM and it’s described as a ‘minimalistic dual pane file manager for Linux’.
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- How To Downgrade All Packages To A Specific Date In Arch Linux
- We already have covered how to downgrade a single package in Arch Linux and Ubuntu. Today, in this brief tutorial, we will see how to downgrade all packages to a specific date in Arch Linux. The reason to do this is your Arch Linux might be broken after recent system upgrade.
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- How To Adjust The Size Of The Root Partition On Live Arch Linux
- Today, I was testing the latest Arch Linux live ISO in VirtualBox. Before installing Arch Linux on disk, I booted into the live system and wanted to try some applications to see how it performs in Arch Linux. As expected, everything worked fine out of the box.
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- Moreutils – A Collection Of More Useful Unix Utilities
- We all know about GNU core utilities that comes pre-installed with all Unix-like operating systems. These are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.
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- How to recover from a git mistake
- Today my colleague almost lost everything that he did over four days of work. Because of an incorrect git command, he dropped the changes he'd saved on stash. After this sad episode, we looked for a way to try to recover his work... and we did it!
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- How to Run Android Apps on Ubuntu Linux with Anbox
- For a long time people have been trying to get Android apps running on Linux. After all, it makes a whole lot of sense. Android does use the Linux kernel. So why has it been so hard then? Aside from the Linux kernel, Linux and Android are radically different systems.
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- How to Change Runlevels (targets) in SystemD
- Systemd is a modern init system for Linux: a system and service manager which is compatible with the popular SysV init system and LSB init scripts. It was intended to overcome the shortcomings of SysV init as explained in the following article.
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- Manipulate Images with ImageMagick
- In my last article, I had some fun looking at the children's game of rock, paper, scissors, writing a simple simulator and finding out that some strategies are better than others. Yes, I used "strategy" and "rock, paper, scissors" in the same sentence!
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- 15 mysqlbinlog Command Examples for MySQL Binary Log Files
- In MySQL or MariaDB, anytime you make a change to the database, that particular event is logged. For example, when you create a new table, or update data on an existing table, those events are stored in the binary logs.
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- 3 Free Color-Picker Tools for the Linux Desktop
- Color pickers are tools that help you identify and pick colors from your desktop. This is very useful when doing image editing, web development work or other creative endeavors.
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- How to Use NMap to Check Your Linux Computer for Open Ports
- A major part of securing a Linux system is locking down unused ports to stop them from being accessed and ultimately hijacked by attackers. Linux systems are built to be servers, so attackers would attempt to use a compromised system that way, even if that system was set up to be a desktop.
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- How to Scan Your Linux Computer for Viruses and Rootkits
- Are you worried that your Linux computer may be infected with malware? Have you ever checked? While Linux systems tend to be less susceptible to malware than Windows, they can still be infected. Many times they’re less obviously compromised, too.
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- Interesting File Managers to Discover This Week
- File managers can make your digital life much easier. They make it so much easier to find files so that you can copy, share, delete, etc. Many times they work with all your favorite cloud storage and social media accounts as well. We suggest you check out these five free file managers.
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- Git v2.14.0
- The latest feature release Git v2.14.0 is now available at the usual places. It is comprised of 727 non-merge commits since v2.13.0, contributed by 66 people, 18 of which are new faces. The tarballs are found at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ when kernel.org mirrors catch up.
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- How To Use AppImage in Linux [Complete Guide]
- Brief: This AppImage tutorial shows you how to use AppImage to install software and how to remove the applications it installed. There are ways to install software in Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution. Downloading .deb or .
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- Logistics
- Like the term "cloud," the phrase "DevOps" is used so widely these days that people can no longer agree on a single definition.
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- A Collection Of Utilities To Simplify Linux Network Troubleshooting And Performance Tuning
- Today, we are going to discuss about a collection of useful utilities called “netutils-linux” that can be used to simplify Linux network troubleshooting and performance tuning. This suite of Linux utils helps you to automate the linux performance tuning process out of the box.
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- Seashells – Pipe Your Linux Command’s Output To Web In Real-time
- Today, I came across an interesting tool called “Seashells”. It is used to pipe your command-line program’s output to web in real-time. We can use it to share a Linux command’s output to the support team, friends, and colleagues.
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- 4 Ways To Keep A Command Running After You Log Out Of An SSH Session
- Let us say you’re accessing an another system remotely via SSH. You want to run a command that takes a long time to finish and then exit the SSH session but leave the command running even if you’re no longer connected with the remote system.
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- Linux df Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
- Get 7 days of FREE downloads on GraphicStock! 350,000+ photos, vectors, and more. Sometimes, you might want to know how much space is consumed (and how much is free) on a particular file system on your Linux machine. There a specific command - dubbed df - that does this for you.
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- Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
- Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character. Simplistically, when you type two or more characters and they magically attach to each other, you're using ligatures that were supported by your OS, your app, and your font.
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- Linux dd command explained for beginners (8 examples)
- Get 7 days of FREE downloads on GraphicStock! 350,000+ photos, vectors, and more. Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you may need to perform a copy operation in way that the data/text gets formatted before it's written at the destination.
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- Protect Your System. Run Your Browser In Firejail
- Objective Install Firejail and use it to sandbox applications, like web browsers, that interact with the open Internet. Distributions This will work with any current Linux distribution. Requirements A working Linux install with root privileges.
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- Install Varnish Cache 5.1 to Boost Apache Performance on CentOS 7
- Varnish Cache (commonly known as Varnish), is an open source, popular reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator intended for speeding up web servers. It is engineered for excessively utilized API endpoints and also for dynamic sites that serve massive-content and experience high-traffic.
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- IBus-UniEmoji – Type Emoji Directly into Your Linux Desktop
- I don’t know how often you type Emoji using your Linux desktop but none of the Ubuntu distros ships with that feature. The normal way to go about entering Emoji is to copy it and paste it into your desired location. It is thanks to IBUs-UniEmoji that you no longer need to do that.
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- If you’re still using ifconfig, you’re living in the past
- I regularly see “recommendations” to use ifconfig to get interface information in mailing list posts or bug reports and other places. I might even be guilty of it myself.
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- How to Secure Your Linux Desktop with Iptables
- Linux may have a reputation for security, but it isn’t perfect. Many distributions also don’t have the best security defaults, so it’s best to implement some best practices for security. One such example is using a firewall.
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- tilix themes : Google Search
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- Undo File Changes with Git
- One of my favorite features in modern text editors is their ability to integrate tools to format code upon every save.
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- Viewing Linux output in columns
- The Linux column command makes it easy to display data in a columnar format -- often making it easier to view, digest, or incorporate into a report. While column is a command that's simple to use, it has some very useful options that are worth considering.
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- How to Set Up an Email Server in Ubuntu
- There are plenty of reasons you’d want to run your own mail server. Privacy, security, and customization are just a few. Putting together a custom mail server is a huge pain. It’s really not something that you’d want to do, let alone maintain.
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- How to Use Emojis in Linux
- Emojis have become a popular way to express emotions and add a bit of personality to text conversations in today’s Internet age.
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- Bash fork bomb : How does it work
- Insights of Bash fork bomb. Understand how fork bomb works, what it could to your system and how to prevent it. We will be discussing about Bash fork bomb in this article. This article will walk you through what is fork bomb, how it works and how to prevent it on your systems.
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- Cylon – The Arch Linux Maintenance Program
- Howdy Arch Linux users! I’ve got a good news for you. Meet Cylon, a maintenance program for Arch Linux and derivatives. It is a menu-driven Bash script which provides updates, maintenance, backups and system checks for Arch Linux and its derivatives such as Antergos, Manjaro Linux etc.
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- 9 Linux network command you should know about!!!
- In simplest form network is computers connected together. But during connection issues we have to check the fault within network. Hence in this article we will be discussing diagnostic Linux network command that you should know!!
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- A user's guide to links in the Linux filesystem
- In articles I have written about various aspects of Linux filesystems for Opensource.
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- How to kill An Inactive or Idle SSH Sessions
- Let’s imagine that you are working in server through ssh, for some reason your session get disconnected like, internet issue or power failure or your Local PC get rebooted, etc,. You may or mayn’t login to the server again to work but you have left the previous ssh session with out closing.
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- Practical Networking for Linux Admins: TCP/IP
- Linux grew up with a networking stack as part of its core, and networking is one of its strongest features. Let's take a practical look at some of the TCP/IP fundamentals we use every day. I have a peeve. OK, more than one.
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- How to get Docker Shipyard up and running with a single command
- If you're using Docker to create and deploy containers, then you probably know the management of those containers can get a bit unwieldy after a while; this is especially true for larger deployments with numerous images and containers.
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- 11 log files you should see on your Linux system
- Listing of important Linux log files and their formats. These logs plays vital role in troubleshooting and every sysadmin should be aware of them. Troubleshooting any issues with your system needs proper knowledge of log file structure and their locations.
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- Manage Log Messages Under Systemd Using Journalctl [Comprehensive Guide]
- Systemd is a cutting-edge system and service manager for Linux systems: an init daemon replacement intended to start processes in parallel at system boot. It is now supported in a number of current mainstream distribution including Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Arch, RHEL, CentOS, etc.
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- Linux cksum command explained for beginners (with examples)
- Kick-start your open source projects with access to hundreds of frameworks. There are times when we download a file (say an ISO image) hosted somewhere on the Internet only to find that it's not working as expected (or, at all).
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- Linux clear command tutorial for beginners (3 examples)
- From signup to deployment, getting started with Azure is faster than you think. Sometimes, while working on the command line, you arrive at a point where there's too much text on the terminal screen, and none of that is relevant to you.
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- 15 Git Branch Command Examples to Create and Manage Branches
- One of the most powerful feature of git is its ability to create and manage branches in the most efficient way. In this example, we have the following three commits on this project so far.
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- How To List Installed Packages From A Certain Repository In Linux
- We already know how to list the installed repositories in Unix-like operating systems. Today, let me show you how to list installed packages from a certain repository in Linux from command line. This can be useful when you wanted to know which packages are from which repositories.
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- Gifine – Quickly Create An Animated GIF Video In Ubuntu/Debian
- Gifine is a free tool that record selected area on your desktop, which can be export as a gif or mp4 video on Unix like operating system. It is a GTK application implemented in MoonScript using lgi. You can either load a directory of frames, or select a region of your desktop to record.
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- An introduction to parameter expansion in Bash
- In Bash, entities that store values are known as parameters. Their values can be strings or arrays with regular syntax, or they can be integers or associative arrays when special attributes are set with the declare built-in.
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- How to allow root login from one IP address with ssh public keys only
- I am using MacOS on the desktop and Ubuntu Linux on the server. I disabled root login over ssh and enabled ssh based public key login. However, I recently added second Ubuntu server. I need to sync file between two using rsync command.
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- 3 Easy Ways To Create Or Extend Swap Space In Linux
- Users can create swap space during installation of any Linux operating system and its necessary too. If you forget to create or later if you want increase, you can at any point of time.
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- How To Use RAM As Hard Drive? How To Create RAMDisk?
- Short Bytes: If you’re having an excess amount of RAM on your system, mostly unused, you can use it to create a RAM Drive or RAM Disk. You can take its advantage to reduce application load times, improve performance while playing games, or store 4K movies for better playback.
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- Basics of iptables – Linux firewall
- Beginner’s tutorial to understand iptables – Linux firewall. This article explains about iptable basics, different type of chains and chain policy defining strategy. Linux firewall : iptables! plays very important role in securing your Linux system.
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- Quick Guide for Linux user access control list (ACL)
- In UNIX system you always need to deal with security towards the system. File or directory level user access control is one of them. Mainly the purpose of the user access control list is to provide secure access to the flies and directory within the system.
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- Create a new MySQL user and Grant Permissions to MySQL Database
- In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a new user and grant permissions to that user in MySQL. MySQL is an open source relational database managed system(RDBMS) that enables users and applications to store, organize, and retrieve their data.
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- A quick guide to using FFmpeg to convert media files
- There are many open source tools out there for editing, tweaking, and converting multimedia into exactly what you need. Tools like Audacity or Handbrake are fantastic, but sometimes you just want to change a file from one format into another quickly. Enter FFmpeg.
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- How to tune kernel parameters in Linux
- Article explaining how to tune kernel parameters in Linux system using command or using configuration file. In this article we will be discussing how to set or tune kernel parameter in any Linux system.
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- Top 10 snaps in May
- This month we have a selection that might please those of you who like games, with apps like OpenSpades and Pin Town. Our selection is really diverse, from graphics editor Vectr to AnimationMaker, there’s a snap for everyone. Using IRC? Now there’s a snap client for that too!
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- Cron Vs Anacron: How to Schedule Jobs Using Anacron on Linux
- In this article, we will explain cron and anacron and also shows you how to setup anacron on Linux. We will as well cover a comparison of these two utilities.
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- How to use sed to find and replace text in files in Linux / Unix shell
- The syntax is: sed 's/word1/word2/g' input.file sed 's/word1/word2/g' input.file > output.file sed -i 's/word1/word2/g' input.file sed -i -e 's/word1/word2/g' -e 's/xx/yy/g' input.
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- Network routes in Linux
- Learn networking basics in Linux server. What is network route, how to check routes, how to define static and default routes in Linux system. Network routes on Linux servers are the paths or gateways packets should follow to reach their destinations.
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- 5 of the Best Microsoft Project Alternatives for Linux
- There are hundreds of Microsoft Project alternatives, and we have covered them before. There are cross-platform and Web alternatives, but in this article I will focus on Microsoft Project alternatives for Linux in particular.
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- NetworkManager 1.8 Is Officially Out, Handles PINs for PKCS#11 Tokens as Secrets
- NetworkManager, the open-source network management tool used by default in numerous GNU/Linux distributions for allowing users to connect to various wired, wireless or mobile network connections, was updated to version 1.8.0. NetworkManager 1.
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- TypeCatcher – Download Google Webfonts to Your Ubuntu Desktop
- Just recently, I wrote about FontBase, a modern font manager for your Linux workstation. It’s a nice application that, in my opinion, hasn’t even begun to showcase its potentials yet because it is still in beta and most of its main features are coming soon.
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- 5 of the Best Linux Remote Desktop Apps to Remotely Access a Computer
- Remote desktop apps are a very useful group of apps because they allow access to a computer anywhere in the world.
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- What You Need to Know About WannaCry Infecting Linux
- Several days have passed since WannaCry has wreaked havoc on the world with its clever use of an SMB exploit found within Windows, yet the malware continues making the news with new information and speculation surrounding its origins, its trajectory, and the potential for more massive attacks.
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- How to Fix Git Push Insufficient Permission Error for Objects Permanently
- Sometimes when you do a git push, you might get the following permission error message. This error typically happens when multiple users are working on a particular git repository.
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- How to ping and test for a specific port from Linux or Unix command line
- I wanted to see if a specific port of a desktop computer or server is open from a Linux or Unix command line shell. How do I ping a specific port? Is it possible possible to ping an 192.168.1.254:80 or 192.168.1.
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- Atom 1.17
- Today’s Atom 1.17 release comes with the introduction of docks, faster startup time with V8 snapshots, farewell to jQuery and other improvements. Docks are an extension of Atom’s pane system designed to hold interface elements that you want to quickly toggle into and out of view.
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- Easy Ways to Read/View Zip & Archive File Contents Without Extracting
- Many of us know, how to zip, tar & unzip the files but few of them only knows how to Read the contents of a zipped file without extracting. In some cases you don’t want to extract the file but you want to view the file contents or list of the files which is there inside archive.
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- ssh_scan: A Prototype SSH Configuration And Policy Scanner For Linux
- openSSH stands for Secure Shell is an evergreen tool to connect remote Linux server securely. Security is one of the major task for Linux administrator that to two types, application & server level security.
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- How to Cast Video from Ubuntu With Mkchromecast
- It’s now possible to cast local video to Chromecast from the Ubuntu desktop. The latest release of open-source Chromecast app Mkchromecast picks up the ability to stream video to any Chromecast equipped TV or Cast Ready speaker set.
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- Git and GitHub Integration comes to Atom
- A text editor is at the core of the developer’s toolbox, but many other useful pieces of software coexist along with it, such as Git and GitHub. Starting today, Atom adds Git and GitHub integration directly in Atom via the GitHub package.
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- Simplenote gives a new life to your notes
- There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Simplenote. If you haven’t tried it yet, Simplenote brings a solid note taking utility to your day-to-day open source toolkit.
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- fman – A Present Day File Manager for Power Users
- fman, is a smart console-driven, an alternative file manager with an eye candy UI, a swift performance, a responsive app window, and support for extensibility using plugins.
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- How to Setup Postal a Mail Server for Incoming & Outgoing Email
- Postal is a complete and fully featured Open source mail delivery server for use by websites & web servers. It was developed by aTech Media to serve their own mail processing requirements but later on, they decided that it should be released as an open source project for the community.
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- How To Check If A Linux System Is Physical Or Virtual Machine
- As a Linux administrator, sometimes, you might be wondering whether you are working on a physical or virtual machine. Most of the time, you will be accessing and managing your servers remotely.
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- Conky Harmattan Adds an Interactive Setup Tool
- Conky Harmattan is a really beautiful and informative Conky config for the Linux desktop — and it just gotten a teeny bit easier to use. The Harmattan Conky theme is popular because it’s so diverse. It has multiple themes each with multiple formats and each format with two mode.
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- [Exclusive Review] Libre OS USB : Your Portable System
- Hi guys, welcome to the 17th segment of "Introduction with Linux Distro".
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- A Simple Script To Setup Development Environment In Ubuntu
- A while ago, we have written a guide that described how to install development tools in popular Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE etc.
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- Docks Deep Dive
- This is a guest post written by Facebook’s Nuclide team member @matthewwithanm. He tells the story how the new docks got introduced to Atom and how package authors can make great use of them.
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- The Ubuntu Desktop Team would like to gather your feedback on a number of GNOME Extensions
- Is Canonicals assumption that everyone uses Google or that your opinion does not matter unless you use Google? Last edited by ChuangTzu; 05-20-2017 at 03:12 PM.
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- Install and Use i3 Window Manager on Ubuntu
- i3wm is easily the most popular tiling window manager available right now. It’s lightweight, easy to learn, and easy to configure. i3 is also very well documented. Documentation is key when using a tiling window manager since you’re responsible for setting up and customizing everything.
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- How to Save the Output of a Command to a File in Linux
- On Linux systems there are quite a few ways to save command line output to files. Each one operates differently and saves different things. These commands are useful across all Linux distributions and can even be used on Macs and BSD.
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- How to Get Notified of Updates for Your Gnome Shell Extensions
- The good (and probably the best) thing about Gnome Shell is that you can easily extend its functionality with extensions, and we have already shown you some of the best ones in a previous article.
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- Linux Uniq Command Tutorial for Beginners (10 examples)
- Java, Node.js, PHP, .NET. Get started in any language with Azure. If you are a Linux command line user, and your work involves playing with text files, you should know (if not already) that there are many command line utilities that may be of great help to you in different situations.
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- Linux cmp command tutorial for beginners (7 examples)
- Pretty much regardless of your role, if your regular work involves doing stuff on the command line in Linux, you may find yourself in a situation where-in you'd want to compare two files using a command line utility.
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- 10 Linux Cat Command Examples for Beginners
- If you a regular Linux command line user, I am sure you must have used the cat command. The tool is mostly used for displaying contents of a file, although it provides many other small but useful features.
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- Atom is now available as a snap for Ubuntu
- There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Atom. Launched in 2014, Atom has been rapidly adopted by a large community and is considered one of the top language agnostic code editors. It offers a constantly growing library of 6 000+ addons for all purposes, from themes to IDE features.
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- Linux cd command tutorial for beginners (8 Examples)
- Create your website with a customizable Squarespace design. Start a free trial. The cd command is one of the most frequently used commands in Linux, as it's used to change directories (one of the most basic command line operations).
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- How to Download, Install, and Use Command Line-Based Web Browser Lynx in Ubuntu
- Although graphical user interface (GUI) has almost become synonymous with personal computing these days, systems still exist that only offer command line interface (CLI).
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- Rad Browsers
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- The Default Browser on Linux Debacle
- The concept of a default browser on linux is a complete mess. There doesn’t seem to be any central, agreed upon method of defining what the default browser is. First there is the $BROWSER environment variable. This seems like a good idea, it can be set globally, and on a per user basis.
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- How to find PID of process listening on a port in Linux? netstat and lsof command examples
- In Linux, many times, you want to find out the PID of a process which are listening on a port e.g.
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- Linux lsof command tutorial for beginners (10 examples)
- The lsof command in Linux displays in its output information about files that are opened by processes. In this article, we will discuss the tool using 10 easy to understand examples. Please note that all examples mentioned in this tutorial have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
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- MTE Explains: The Differences between Su, Sudo Su, Sudo -s and Sudo -i
- On the Linux command line there are many different ways to get a root session in the terminal.
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- How To Change The Sudo Prompt In Linux And Unix
- I felt a bit bored today. While digging in Google, I found this cool and useless hack. There is an option to change the sudo prompt to something cool or funny. Whenever I use a sudo command, it will display “[sudo] password for …” statement. Let us consider the following example.
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- How to let users securely edit files using sudoedit on Linux
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? Suppose you are a system administrator in a company where teams mostly work on Linux with limited privileges.
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- How to run multiple commands in sudo under Linux or Unix
- I am a new Linux user. How do I run two commands from a bash shell? I need to run apt-get update and apt-get -y upgrade without typing sudo command two times from a command line on Ubuntu Linux AWS cloud server.
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- How to do batch image processing on the Linux Destop with XnConvert
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? GIMP is great and I use it all the time, but when it comes to batch image processing on Linux, nothing is more handy and simple to use than XnConvert.
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- How to Convert Files to UTF-8 Encoding in Linux
- In this guide, we will describe what character encoding and cover a few examples of converting files from one character encoding to another using a command line tool. Then finally, we will look at how to convert several files from any character set (charset) to UTF-8 encoding in Linux.
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- 4 Ways to Batch Convert Your PNG to JPG and Vice-Versa
- In computing, Batch processing is the execution of a series of tasks in a program non-interactively. In this guide will offer you 4 simple ways to batch convert several .PNG images to .JPG and vice-versa using Linux command-line tools.
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- Convert JPG images to PNGs
- You need Imagemagick installed to use this service menu.
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- Convert PNG images to JPGs
- You need Imagemagick installed to use this service menu.
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- How to convert xls file to csv file in Linux and vice versa
- Excel is an Microsoft spreadsheet program and its extension is .xls or .xlsx. Now we as Linux user can convert xls file to csv file in Linux and .xls to .csv. This quick guide will help you how we can convert xls file to csv file in Linux using program called SSConvert and Unoconv.
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- How To Securely And Permanently Delete Your Data In Linux
- As you may know already, the deleted data from your hard drive can be recovered using some data recovery software, with little bit of effort. However, some times you don’t want your private data to be recovered or you simply wanted to make it very hard to recover your personal data.
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- 10 snaps written in April
- This month we have great range of snaps, from desktop to cloud/server, to IoT, there’s a snap for everyone! If you haven’t heard of snaps yet, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .
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- Tilix – An Advanced GTK3 Tiling Terminal Emulator for Linux
- Tilix (Previously known as Terminix) is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). It has vast features which is not found in other terminal emulators.
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- Open-Source Video Trimmer App VidCutter Scores Big Update
- VidCutter is a cross-platform Qt5 app for quick video trimming/splitting and merging video clips without the need to re-encode. The app is powered by FFmpeg, which available on almost all major Linux distributions. On macOS and Windows builds FFmpeg is provided as a static binary. VidCutter 3.2.
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- How to Delete HUGE (100-200GB) Files in Linux
- Usually, to delete/remove a file from Linux terminal, we use the rm command (delete files), shred command (securely delete a file), wipe command (securely erase a file) or secure-deletion toolkit (a collection of secure file deletion tools).
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- How to run command or code in parallel in bash shell under Linux or Unix
- How do I run commands in parallel in a bash shell script running under Linux or Unix-like operating system? How can I run multiple programs in parallel from a bash script? You have various options to run programs or commands in parallel: => Use GNU/parallel or xargs command.
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- ttyload – Shows a Color-coded Graph of Linux Load Average in Terminal
- ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of system load average in a terminal (“tty“).
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- Top 5 Ebook Authoring Tools for Linux
- Ebooks are quickly becoming the most popular publication medium for books. More people than ever are buying their books in digital form, and ebooks open up an invaluable opportunity for publishers and self-published authors alike.
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- How to Easily and Quickly Rip DVDs with VLC
- VLC is a powerful and well-loved application, but few users realize it can do more than just play files. If needed, you can rip DVDs to your PC with VLC. Note that ripping DVDs with VLC won’t defeat any kind of DRM, and it can be a little buggy at times.
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- Automatically Wake Up Your Linux System From Sleep Or Hibernation Mode
- Today, we will be discussing an useful topic that describes how to automatically wake up your Linux system from sleep or hibernation mode using ‘rtcwake’ utility. Rtcwake is used to enter a Linux system sleep or hibernate state, and to automatically wake from it at a specific time.
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- 10 Unix commands every Mac and Linux user should know
- GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get acquainted with the Unix command line.
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- Cross-Platform SSH Client Termius is available as a Snap app on Linux
- Let me preface this post by saying that I know very little about SSH clients. Many of you use SSH regularly, be it to connect to a local machine, a remote server, a Docker container, virtual machine or something more fruity, like a Raspberry Pi cluster.
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- Firefox Multiprocess is Disabled by Default on Ubuntu, So Here’s How To Turn it On
- Multiprocess Firefox brings a ‘major improvement’ to your browsing experience — but if you’re running Ubuntu you won’t be feeling the benefit. Yup, it turns out that Firefox multiprocess mode is disabled on Ubuntu by default.
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- How To Exclude Certain Size Files From Copying In Linux
- A few days ago, I have explained how to backup your entire Linux system using Rsync utility. One problem I have encountered during the backup process was some large size files took really long time to copy. I had to copy some movies which are over 3GB in size.
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- Create A List Of Installed Packages And Install Them Later From The List In Arch Linux
- Today, I came across a cool tip that explains how to create a list of installed packages and install them later from the backup list in new a system or in the existing Arch Linux system after fresh installation.
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- Awesome way to improve process monitoring: Install htop Linux on RHEL, Ubuntu and fedora.
- Htop is an interactive real-time process monitoring utility or command for Linux. It’s very similar to native top utility in Linux however with htop utility you can move or scroll horizontally or vertically to capture all the details about the process.
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- How To Avoid Accidental Shutdown Or Reboot In Linux
- Sometimes, I forget there is an important job is running on my VPS and remote systems. Without verifying anything, I just shutdown or reboot the VPS. The result? The running job is terminated due to my ignorance. I have to start over the job from the beginning.
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- How To Split And Combine Files From Command Line In Linux
- I have a lot of Linux tutorial videos in my Laptop. I wanted all of them in my Google Drive, for the sake of backup. The problem is those videos are more than 1 GiB in size. It is practically not a good approach to upload that much big files to my Google drive.
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- ssh_scan: A SSH configuration and policy scanner for Linux and UNIX server
- The SSH (“Secure Shell”) protocol is a method for secure remote login from one system to another. Sysadmins and users use a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client-server architecture format for connecting an SSH client with an SSH server. Security ssh server is an important task.
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- How To Backup Your Entire Linux System Using Rsync
- Today, I wanted to reinstall one of my virtual machine which is running with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server. Before reinstalling, I tried to backup the entire system. While searching for an easiest way to do this, I found a plausible solution in Arch Linux wiki page.
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- A beginner's guide to Linux syscalls
- Over the last couple of years, I've been doing a lot of work with containers. Early on I saw a fascinating talk by Julien Friedman where he wrote a bare-bones container in a few lines of Go.
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- Have You Heard? KDE Applications 17.04 and Plasma 5.9.5 Now Available
- The last two weeks have been busy for the KDE Community. On April 20 we announced the release of KDE Applications 17.04, and five days later we released a new set of bugfixes and translations for Plasma, officially versioned Plasma 5.9.5.
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- Sending SMS from Linux Just Got Easier with Latest Indicator KDE Connect Update
- The popular mobile integration applet, which makes the full feature set of KDE Connect accessible on non-Plasma desktops like Unity and GNOME, is now able to integrate with your Google Contacts.
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- OpenShot 2.3 Linux Video Editor New Features
- Create your website with Squarespace's powerful platform. Start a free trial. It’s been quite some time since we last talked about OpenShot, and more specifically when it had its second major release.
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- Understanding Shell Initialization Files and User Profiles in Linux
- Linux is a multi-user, time sharing system, implying that more than one user can log in and use a system.
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- How to Compare Numbers, Strings and Files in Bash Shell Script
- In this tutorial on Bash scripting, we are going to learn to do comparisons. We will be discussing numeric, strings & file comparisons in a Bash script. Comparisons in a script are very useful & one of the most used statements, and we must know how we can use them to our advantage.
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- 10 Useful ‘locate’ Command Practical Examples for Linux Newbies
- One of most obnoxious experiences that most new users of the Linux platform usually face is the inability to find the simplest and yet more effective means of looking up files on their system.
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- How To Check Disk Space Usage In Linux Using Ncdu
- Today, we will be discussing how to check disk space usage in Unix-like systems using Ncdu utility. Ncdu, acronym of NCurses Disk Usage, is a curses-based version of the well-known ‘du’, and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space.
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- Cloud Chatter: April 2017
- Welcome to our April edition. We begin with our recent release of Ubuntu 17.04 supporting the widest range of container capabilities. We have a selection of Kubernetes webinars for you to watch, or get up to speed with some indepth tutorials.
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- How to Easily Set Up Third Party DNS on Linux
- Are you a Linux user? Want to try an alternative DNS service but are unsure how to do it? Not to worry! In this tutorial we’ll go over how to change the DNS settings in Linux via a network manager.
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- How to Install Deb Package in Arch Linux
- If you’ve used Linux for any amount of time, you’ve noticed that one of the most common methods to install third party applications is via a .Deb package.
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- CodeDown
- In the mood to read a manifesto? Check out the design principles behind this project Found a bug? Report it here!
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- Making tmux Pretty and Usable - A Guide to Customizing your tmux.conf
- In my previous blog post I gave a quick and easy introduction to tmux and explained how to use tmux with a basic configuration.
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- Read The Tao of tmux
- Nearly all my friends use tmux. I remember going out at night for drinks and the 3 of us would take a seat at a round table and take out our smart phones. This was back when phones still had physical QWERTY keyboards.
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- This Theme Makes Qt Apps Feel at Home on GNOME
- There are plenty of excellent Qt and KDE apps that GNOME avoid using simply because they don’t like the way Qt apps look on their GNOME Desktop. Well, that excuse is about to expire.
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- Shell scripting (BASH) : How to create temporary random file name
- Sometimes you need to create a temporary file in your shell script. There are various methods exist to create a random temporary file name. It is quite useful if your application/shell scripting needs temporary unique file names.
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- How to move Linux Home to ZFS
- Recently, I had an issue with a P2V VM (physical PC converted to virtual machine) where /home was running out of space and needed to be expanded. My /home in this case was a completely separate virtual disk (sdb) that was 10GB, and I needed to restore a multiple-GB Thunderbird email archive.
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- GoTTY – Share Your Linux Terminal (TTY) as a Web Application
- GoTTY is a simple GoLang based command line tool that enables you to share your terminal(TTY) as a web application. It turns command line tools into web applications. It employs Chrome OS’ terminal emulator (hterm) to execute a JavaScript based terminal on a web browsers.
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- How To Synchronize Local And Remote Directories In Linux
- This tutorial describes how to synchronize local and remote directories in Linux using Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon). Using Lsyncd, we can easily mirror local to local directories or local to remote directories.
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- Termbox – Access Preconfigured Linux Command-Line Workspaces via Web Browser
- Folks, today we are going to show you about the fantastic website called Termbox where users can test/work almost six Operating systems through browser. It’s similar to Ubuntu online tour website which you might tried earlier.
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- Ntfy – Get Desktop or Phone Alerts When Long Running Command Finishes
- Ntfy is a simple yet serviceable cross-platform Python utility that enables you to automatically get desktop notifications on demand or when long running commands complete. It can as well send push notifications to your phone once a particular command completes.
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- rdiff-backup – A Remote Incremental Backup Tool for Linux
- rdiff-backup is a powerful and easy-to-use Python script for local/remote incremental backup, which works on any POSIX operating system such as Linux, Mac OS X or Cygwin. It brings together the remarkable features of a mirror and an incremental backup.
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- How To Setup Backup Server Using Rsnapshot In Linux
- Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync for Unix-like operating systems. It allows you to easily make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh.
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- How to check your Linux servers for rootkits and malware
- If your data center makes use of Linux, you want to ensure those servers are free from both rootkits and malware. Although Linux, in general, is safe from a vast amount of malicious software, it is a mistake to assume it completely impervious.
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- Cloud Commander – Web File Manager to Control Linux File and Programs via Browser
- Cloud Commander (cloudcmd) is a simple open source, traditional yet useful cross-platform web file manager with console and editor support. It is written in JavaScript/Node.
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- Build your own DNS name server on Linux
- In the previous article in this two-part series, Introduction to the DNS (Domain Name System), I described how the DNS database is structured and how to configure name services on a client.
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- Plotinus Adds a Searchable Command Palette to GTK3 Apps
- Say aloha to Plotinus, a natty new HUD-like command palette for GTK3 applications. Which ones?
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- Mount Your Google Drive on Linux with google-drive-ocamlfuse
- We’ve written before how easy it is to access Google Drive on Ubuntu (or any GNOME-toting Linux) thanks to GNOME Online Accounts and Nautilus.
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- You Can Sync GNOME Extensions Between Desktops using Google Chrome
- Do you love using GNOME Shell Extensions on your desktop, but don’t love having to manually install them each time you reinstall or switch machine? Well, turns out you don’t need to because the GNOME Shell integration extension for Google Chrome lets you sync GNOME extensions between machines.
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- 17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.04
- If you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.04 this weekend (or already have) you may want to know what to do after installing. Well, first things first: award yourself a well-earned pat on the back for picking such a great OS.
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- How to install Moodle on ISPConfig
- Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. It is used in many environments, starting from education, e-learnign to certification tests.
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- 8 Linux Locate Command Examples for Beginners
- Create a powerful website with Squarespace. Start your free trial today. While find is no doubt one of the most popular as well as powerful command line utilities for file searching in Linux, it not fast enough for situations where-in you need instantaneous results.
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- How to Set Up Your Own Linux Photo Management System with Lychee
- Ever wanted to access your photos from anywhere via the Web but didn’t want to sign up for proprietary solutions like Google Photos, Photo Bucket, etc.? Introducing Lychee, a self-hosted tool that allows users to manage, upload and catalog their large photo collections.
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- How to Set Up an Automatic Backup System on Linux with Dropbox
- Have you ever wanted to set up a backup system on your Linux desktop but don’t know where to start? Not to worry, it is easier than you think! The Linux desktop is compatible with Dropbox, making way for a straightforward, cross-platform backup system.
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- Darktable – An Adobe Lightroom Alternative for Linux
- Darktable is an Open Source workflow application and raw developer for photography. From the perspective of a photographer, picture it as your virtual zoomable light table and darkroom at the same time.
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- Why Choose Kubernetes to Manage Containerized Applications?
- We're learning about Kubernetes in this series, and why it is a good choice for managing your containerized applications. In part 1, we talked about what Kubernetes does, and its architecture. Now we'll compare Kubernetes to competing container managers.
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- Krita – An Excellent Professional Painting Tool for Linux
- Krita is an Open Source sketching and painting app designed professional content creators and can thus, be used efficiently for creating concept designs, illustrations, matte and textured paintings, among other professional forms of artistry.
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- How to use grep to search for strings in files on the shell
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? Contents 1.1 The GREP Command- An Overview 1.2 The Basic grep Command Syntax 1.3 How to Use the grep Command for Searching a File 1.4 Recursive Use of grep 1.5 Using grep to Search Only for Words 1.6 Using grep to Search Two Different Words 1.
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- Getting started with tmux
- In this post, we will write about tmux, which is a terminal multiplexer, a lot like GNU Screen but much more powerful. If you spend a lot of time in a CLI, then you’ll love tmux. tmux is a terminal multiplexer.
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- On-the-Fly Web Server
- Most of you have a web server installed on your network somewhere. In fact, most of you probably have several. In a pinch, however, getting to the web directory can be difficult.
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- Flat File Encryption with OpenSSL and GPG
- The Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) application, which has long been known as a primary tool for file encryption, commonly focused on email. It has management tools for exchanging credentials with peers and creating secure communication channels over untrusted networks.
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- New KDE Connect Indicator Ubuntu / Linux Mint PPA
- I didn't upload packages for Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17.x because I couldn't build the latest KDE Connect for this Ubuntu version due to newer dependencies, and Ubuntu 14.04 has a pretty old KDE Connect version.
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- Streamlink 0.5.0 Adds Support For Streaming Google Drive / Google Docs Videos
- Forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer maintained, Streamlink is a command line tool (and API) that can be used to stream videos from various streaming services, such as Twitch, YouTube Live and many more, and play them using your favorite video player, be it VLC, mpv, and more.
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- FreeFileSync – Compare and Synchronize Files in Ubuntu
- FreeFileSync is a free, open source and cross platform folder comparison and synchronization software, which helps you synchronize files and folders on Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
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- 10 snaps written in March
- It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen recorder!
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- Something you didn't know about functions in bash
- Here's something you didn't know about bash functions. Usually when you write a function you do this: Right? I know you do, because that's how everyone writes functions. Well, here's the thing. In bash { ... } doesn't mean "function's body" or "function's scope" as in JavaScript or C.
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- What's new in the Skype for Linux beta
- Microsoft is finally moving its latest Linux Skype client to beta and adding the ability to video-conference with other people using the latest model of Skype. Skype for Linux has finally gotten to beta status with new features.
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- Master efficient typing with Ibus typing booster
- The Ibus typing booster is a predictive text input method. The project goal is to empower existing keyboard layouts with predictions to allow users to boost their typing speed without compromising on data accuracy. This project started in 2010 with an first focus on only a few languages.
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- Show and hide multiple files
- Service menu to hide files adding a "." before their names. If used to hidden files it will show them removing the dot. IMPORTANT: you have to download the "showhide" script too and place it i.e. in /usr/bin or other bin paths.
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- Export Markdown documents as PDFs
- You need Pandoc installed to use this service menu and a LaTeX engine like TeX Live. If you get as output a file with missing fonts, look for extra fonts searching "TexLive fonts" in your packages manager.
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- Indicator Bulletin is a Searchable Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu
- Clipboard managers are ten a penny on Linux, and you likely have your favourites. But if you’ve been looking for a searchable clipboard manager, check out Indicator Bulletin.
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- MATE 1.18 Desktop Released, Is Now GTK3 Only
- MATE Desktop 1.18 focuses ‘on completing the migration to GTK3+ and adopting new technologies to replace some of deprecated components MATE Desktop 1.16 still replied on,’ says MATE developer Martin Wimpress in a blog post.
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- How To Enable Better Indicator Applet Support on GNOME Shell
- GNOME hides app indicators (and other legacy system tray items) in a small box in the lower left-hand side of the screen by default. But it is possible to see and use indicator applets on GNOME Shell in a more familiar way, and it’s all thanks to the fairly flexible GNOME extensions system.
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- gnunn1/tilix
- A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3. The Tilix web site for users is available at https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web. Note that Terminix is changing it's name to Tilix due to a trademark issue with the Terminix International Corporation.
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- Microsoft's OneDrive Web App Crippled With Performance Issues On Linux and Chrome OS
- Iain Thomson, reporting for The Register: Plenty of Linux users are up in arms about the performance of the OneDrive web app.
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- OpenSSH 7.5 Released
- The OpenSSH project has announced the release of version 7.5 that comes with added security features. “This release deprecates the sshd_config UsePrivilegeSeparation option, thereby making privilege separation mandatory.
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- How to Manage Processes in Linux
- A process is the abstraction used by the Linux operating system to represent a running program. Each process in Linux consists of an address space and a set of data structures within the server kernel.
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- How To Change The Priority Of A Process In Linux
- In Unix ecosystem, a process is a running program. So, any program running on your Linux box is a process. One or more processes can be running on your Linux box at a time. We can display the information about active processes using ps command.
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- How to install WordPress with Docker
- Docker is an incredibly powerful and flexible tool that allows you to serve up containerized applications such that they are encapsulated and much easier to deploy. I want to demonstrate how easy this is by installing WordPress via Docker. I will be working on the Ubuntu 16.
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- 8 Practical Examples of Linux Xargs Command for Beginners
- The Linux xargs command may not be a hugely popular command line tool, but this doesn't take away the fact that it's extremely useful, especially when combined with other commands like find and grep.
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- OpenShot 2.3 Released With Transform & Razor Tools
- A new version of OpenShot, the crowdfunded open-source non-linear video editor, is available to download.
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- Yarn vs npm - The State of Node.js Package Managers
- With the v7.4 release, npm 4 became the bundled, default package manager for Node.js. In the meantime, Facebook released their own package manager solution, called Yarn. Let's take a look at the state of Node.js package managers, what they can do for you, and when you should pick which one!
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- Configure npm To Install Packages Globally Without sudo Using A Script
- npm is the default package manager for Node.js. It consists of a command line client that integrates with a remote registry, and it makes it easy to install, share and distribute code. If you're using npm installed from a repository in Linux (like the official Ubuntu or Node.
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- How To Build Packages From Source Using CheckInstall
- A few days ago, we wrote about an utility called Fpm that helps to easily build linux packages for multiple platforms. Today, we will discuss about CheckInstall which is also used to build Linux packages from source code.
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- How To List Installed Packages That Belong To A Particular Group In Linux
- A while ago, we have published an article that described how to find installed applications with installed size in Linux. Today, we will see how to list the installed packages that belong to a particular group.
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- GRUB Boot from ISO
- Last year I worked on a project to add an OEM-style rescue partition to a computer. Where most OEM installs have a custom program that just rewrites an install image over the top of the partition, in this case, everything was based on open-source software.
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- An introduction to GRUB2 configuration for your Linux machine
- When researching my article from last month, An introduction to the Linux boot and startup process, I became interested in learning more about GRUB2. This article provides a quick introduction to configuring GRUB2, which I will mostly refer to as GRUB for simplicity.
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- Terminix 1.5.0 Released With Initial Bookmarks Support, Other Improvements [PPA]
- Terminix is a GTK3 tiling terminal emulator. The application allows splitting terminals horizontally and vertically, arranging them using drag'n'drop, save and restore terminal layouts and more.The so called "Quake" mode feature is also supported.
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- How To Record Everything You Do In Terminal
- A few days ago, we published a guide that explained how to save commands in terminal itself and use them on demand. It was very useful for those who don’t want to memorize a lengthy Linux command.
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- How to Change Linux I/O Scheduler
- Linux I/O Scheduler is a process of accessing the block I/O from storage volumes. I/O scheduling is sometimes called disk scheduling. Linux I/O scheduler works by managing a block device’s request queue.
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- How To Decide Where GNOME Notifications Appear
- The default GNOME notification area is slap-bang centre top of the screen, a position that makes it hard to miss notifications and alerts. But sometimes, with too many notifications, it can also make it hard to work, especially with maximised windows.
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- The Best Linux Alternatives for macOS Apps
- Lately, lots of people are switching from to Linux (from both Windows and Mac). As a result, users find themselves trying to find good replacements for popular Mac applications.
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- Two Factors Are Better Than One
- Although I've always been interested in security, there are just some security measures I've never liked.
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- How To Remove All Files In A Folder Except One Specific File In Linux
- Let us say you have 100+ files in a folder. You want to delete all of them except one or few specific files. How would you do it? You can copy the files you wanted to keep, and save them in a different location, and then delete the rest of the files or the entire folder.
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- This Simple App Makes it Easy to Use Emoji on Linux
- If you read around these parts with any frequency you’ll know that I love using emoji. Often I need to quickly find and enter emoji in a desktop app a moments notice.
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- How to run Android in Virtualbox on Linux?
- For days I try to get Android 5 or higher running inside Virtualbox on Linux (here: Mint 18.1), without success.
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- Nord: Modern Design Color Theme Palette for Your Terminal
- Nord is a minimal flat design theme pattern created to enhance your work experience by improving focus and readability for code syntax highlighting and UI. It has 4 main colors namely Polar Night, Snow Storm, Frost, and Aurora, which are further partitioned into a total of 16 dimmed pastel.
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- The 6 Best Free Dropbox Alternatives for Linux
- Dropbox is arguably the most popular cloud storage service available right next to Google’s Drive. For Linux enthusiasts, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
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- Protect Your Online Privacy With The Tor Browser Bundle
- For anyone looking to protect their privacy online, Tor is an invaluable tool. It is both one of the most reliable ways to hide your identity and one of the easiest to use. There are multiple different ways to use Tor, but the simplest and quickest is the Tor Browser bundle.
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- `PB For Desktop`: Cross-Platform Desktop App For Pushbullet (Supports Android Notification Mirroring On Linux Desktops)
- KDE Connect (with KDE Connect Indicator for Unity and other desktops that support AppIndicators) is great for integrating Android devices with your desktop. However, KDE Connect depends on quite a few KDE packages, which some users don't want to install on their GTK-based desktops.
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- How To Hide Files And Folders in File Manager Without Renaming
- If the system used by more than one users and you want to hide some files or folders (personal reasons) from others in file manager (most of the users won’t go depth in Linux, they will see what are the files or folders listed in file manager), we can do it in three way.
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- 10 Portable Apps Every Linux User Should Use
- Portable apps are great invention that not many people talk about. The ability to take any program to any PC, and continue using it is very handy. This is especially true for those that need to get work done, and don’t have anything with you but a flash drive.
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- k4m4/terminals-are-sexy
- Check out my blog and follow me on Twitter. Sexy frameworks, plugins and resources for your sexy shell.
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- AutoFS configuration in Linux
- On demand NFS mounting utility : autofs. Learn what is autofs, why and when to use autofs and autofs configuration steps in Linux server. First place to manage mount points on any linux system is /etc/fstab file.
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- How To Automatically Organize Similar Type Of Files In Specific Folders
- Usually, I like to see my Linux desktop well organized. I have created separate folders for each file types and saved them in the respective folders. There is folder called ‘Entertainment’ to store my movies, videos, and audio files.
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- Command-line document conversion tools for writers
- Today, we have ample tools available for editing memos, letters, essays, books, presentation slides, and other documents on our computers.
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- Watch command to execute script/shell command repeatedly
- Learn watch command to execute script or shell commands repeatedly every n seconds. Very much useful in automation or monitoring. “watch” command is small utility using which you can execute shell command or script repetitively and after every n seconds. Its helpful in automation or monitoring.
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- Flowblade Video Editor 1.12 Released, Adds 2 New Tools
- Flowblade 1.12 introduces a pair of new tools. Progress has also been made towards creating a distribution agnostic .AppImage, though, alas, there are still kinks to be ironed out so you won’t find an app image of the current release.
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- 14 Practical Examples of Linux Find Command for Beginners
- Live Your Life. Learn to Code. Get ahead without putting everything on hold. Find is one of the most frequently used Linux commands, and it offers a plethora of features in the form of command line options.
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- Peek Screen Recorder Hits 1.0, Adds Stacks of New Features
- Open source animated screen recorder app Peek has hit version 1.0 — and added major new features to celebrate. In addition to exporting screen captures as animated GIFs Peek 1.
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- perf sched for Linux CPU scheduler analysis
- Linux perf gained a new CPU scheduler analysis view in Linux 4.10: perf sched timehist. As I haven't talked about perf sched before, I'll summarize its capabilities here. If you're in a hurry, it may be helpful to just browse the following screenshots so that you are aware of what is available.
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- Quick Guide: How to write Bash function
- In almost all programming language we make use of function which is nothing but the code written as logical block for executing repetitive or recurring execution. In shell programming also we do have something called as bash function which acts the same way.
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- How to configure Lighttpd web server with free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
- I read your Nginx and Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificate tutorial. However, I use Lighttpd web server on AWS cloud. How do I secure my Lighttpd web server with Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificate on my Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS or Debian Linux 8.
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- How to perform a faster data compression with pbzip2
- Introduction What if you would be able to perform a data compression four times faster, with the same compression ratio as you normally do.
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- Automatically Organize Your Downloads Folder In Linux Using `Classifier` (Command Line)
- My downloads folder is pretty messy but I can't just delete things because I still need most of the stuff I download.
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- Export Libreoffice and Office documents to PDF
- You need Libreoffice installed to make this service menu works. Supported formats: .odt, .ods, .odp, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx.
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- Build Dockerfile
- Service menu to build a Docker image from a Dockerfile. Of course you need Docker installed and KDialog. This service menu is intended for who know what he's doing.
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- Quick backup & restore files
- Description: A couple of service menu to quickly create a backup copy of the selected files in the same folder, adding a .bak extension, and to restore them. Manual installation: download both bak.desktop and bak-restore.desktop and place them in ~/.
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- Now Playing in texts
- This plugin reads the tags "Title", "Artist" and "Album" of the currently played music, and writes into 4 text files ( np_album.txt | np_artist.txt | np_artist_title.txt | np_title.txt ) Note: if no "Title" as found, the file name is used.
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- Edit folder description
- Service Menu for Dolphin to edit the description of a folder.
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- ShowMetadata
- Description: A KDE Context Menu that uses kdialog and exiftool to display all the Exif, XMP, and IPTC metadata in images and videos.
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- 6 Alternative Linux Shells for Power Users
- Bash, or the Bourne Again Shell, is what comes pre-installed on most Linux distros. However, it’s not the only shell out there. There are several others to try. Here are six alternative shells that can replace bash.
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- How to Protect Your Privacy in Firefox with the Privacy Settings Addon
- Privacy is the foremost concern for just about any computer user in today’s world of snoopy governments, massive password leaks, and Google, Facebook and company just being their data-gathering corporate selves.
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- Capture ideas in Google Keep, bring them to life in Google Docs
- Great ideas can surface in unexpected places. We created Keep to capture your thoughts anytime, anywhere—with smart tools to help you easily organize your notes, ideas and to dos. Starting today, you can capture your ideas for work: Keep is now a part of G Suite.
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- How to Cast Your Android Screen onto Your Linux Desktop
- It may not be every day, but there will be times when you need to mirror your Android screen to your Linux PC.
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- GNU ddrescue – The Best Damaged Drive Rescue
- When you rescue your data from a dying hard drive, time is of the essence. The longer it takes to copy your data, the more you risk losing.
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- How To Save Commands In Terminal And Use Them On Demand
- Let us say you’re searching for a specific command to solve a specific issue on your Linux system. After a bit of Google search, you find it on a website or a blog, and you execute the command. Voila! The problem is solved. You’re happy now and continue your work with great satisfaction.
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- 7 Ways to Determine the File System Type in Linux (Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4)
- A file system is the way in which files are named, stored, retrieved as well as updated on a storage disk or partition; the way files are organized on the disk.
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- Do we really need swap on modern systems?
- Let’s get on the same page regarding some terms. Virtual Memory Management (VMM) is code in the kernel which, among other things, helps us to present each process with its own virtual address space.
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- How to Switch Between Linux Distros Without Losing your Data
- Switching between Linux distributions can be hard when you’re preserving user data. Many users have ways to combat this: cloud storage solutions, external hard drives, flash drives, home servers, etc.
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- BlackArch Linux Now Offers More Than 1700 Ethical Hacking Tools, New ISO Is Out
- On the first day of March, the Arch Linux-based BlackArch Linux operating system designed for penetration testing and ethical hacking operations has received a new ISO snapshot.
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- 6 Basic Network Commands in Linux
- This Linux tutorial covers some basic network commands which can be useful when troubleshooting networking problems with other servers both within the network and across the Internet, obtaining more information about other servers. 1.
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- HandBrake 1.0.3 Open-Source Video Transcoder Improves 2-Pass x265 Encoding, More
- A new maintenance update to the major HandBrake 1.0 release of the open-source and cross-platform video transcoder application has been released recently for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
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- Ubuntu Linux Remove/Delete PPAs apt-get command
- What is a PPA? A PPA is an acronym for Personal Package Archive. It is nothing but pre-built binary software repository for apt packages. The author uploads source code and packages are built online using Launchpad.
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- Green Recorder 2.0 Released, Lets You Screen Record Wayland
- Among the new features this simple desktop screen recorder picks up is screen recording in Wayland sessions (more on that further down) plus a couple of advanced screen recording options.
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- VidCutter 3.0 Released with New Features, MPV Backend
- VidCutter, the open-source video trimmer app we mentioned back in January, is back with a new release — and it’s a big one. The cross-platform Qt5 app lets you quickly and easily trim, split and join video clips without needing to re-encode.
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- 8 reasons to use LXDE
- Late last year, an upgrade to Fedora 25 brought issues with the new version of KDE Plasma that were so bad it was difficult to get any work done. I decided to try other Linux desktop environments for two reasons. First, I needed to get my work done.
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- ExplainShell – Find What Each Part Of A Linux Command does
- Today, I came across an useful web service called ExplainShell that helps you to find what each part of a Linux command does. Of course, you can refer man pages or do a quick google search to know about a Linux command.
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- How to Easily Hide Files and Folders in Linux
- Have you ever wanted to hide a file or folder on your Linux file system but have no idea how to do it? Don’t worry, this is not as complicated as it sounds and can be done rather quickly and efficiently.
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- How to Upgrade Your PC’s BIOS (And Why You Might Want To)
- A computer’s Basic Input/Output System, or BIOS, is the firmware that handles turning on and booting up your computer. Whether or not you realize it, you’ve seen your screen do its thing countless times.
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- wget Dolphin Service Menu (KDE4 or KDE5)
- Super simple context menu to download a URL in the current folder using wget. The download will start in a new konsole window so that you can monitor its progress. Works with KDE4 or KDE5 (need to download the corresponding file).
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- 10 desktop snaps written in February
- It’s that time of the month! Didier has put together a selection of top ten snaps written in February ranging from blockchain to graphical applications.
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- How to Improve Font Rendering in Linux with Infinality
- The way fonts look on operating systems is important. Fonts rendered too poorly can make it harder to read text on screen. On Linux, while font rendering looks decent, it is nowhere near as good as it could be when compared to operating systems like Windows, macOS and Chrome OS.
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- Understanding 7z command switches - part I
- 7z is no doubt a feature-rich and powerful archiver (claimed to offer the highest compression ratio). Here at HowtoForge, we have already discussed how you can install and use it. But the discussion was limited to basic features that you can access using the 'function letters' the tool provides.
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- 5 systemd Tools You Should Start Using Now
- Once you get over systemd's rude departure from the plain-text, script-laden System V of yore, it turns out to be quite nifty and comes with an equally nifty toolbox.
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- systemd 233 Released with Python 3 Support, over 70 Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Lennart Poettering is announcing today, March 1, 2017, the general availability of the systemd 233 init system for Linux-based operating systems that have adopted the open-source technology.
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- systemd.conf
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- Systemd – What You Need to Know
- Unless you have been living under a rock, or worse – you don’t care much about how Linux works, you must have heard of systemd, the (relatively) new init system replacing the old and outdated SysV init recently adopted by most major Linux distros.
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- It's Now Easier Managing Systemd In KDE
- For those running KDE on a systemd-based Linux system, the KDE Control Module for controlling this init system and its options has been updated. Systemd-kcm 1.2.0 was released a few days back as the updated KDE Control Module for managing systemd and its services.
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- How to Manage ‘Systemd’ Services and Units Using ‘Systemctl’ in Linux
- Systemctl is a systemd utility which is responsible for Controlling the systemd system and service manager. Systemd is a collection of system management daemons, utilities and libraries which serves as a replacement of System V init daemon.
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- Intro to Systemd Runlevels and Service Management Commands
- In olden times we had static runlevels. systemd has mechanisms for more flexible and dynamic control of your system. Before we get into learning more useful systemd commands, let's take a little trip down memory lane.
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- apex/apex-ui
- Installation $ apm install apex-ui Screenshot This variant: Slim variant: Links Check out Unsplash for wallpapers Remove title bar Apex UI Slim Apex Syntax Badges tjholowaychuk.
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- Electron
- If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application. Electron uses Chromium and Node.
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- Codelf
- Organize your GitHub stars and repositories.Search over projects from GitHub, Bitbucket, Google Code, Codeplex, Sourceforge, Fedora Project to find real-world usage variable names.
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- atomic-chrome
- Atom needs to be running for this to work. Note that the tab will open in the first launched instance of Atom.
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- The New and Improved Flight Manual
- A little over one year ago, we announced The Atom Flight Manual. Intended as an introduction to using the Atom editor, it provides information on installing packages, navigating around the editor, and developing your first extension.
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- quick-editor
- Quickly select and edit CSS/LESS/SCSS styles from the context of your markup instead of cluttering up your coding environment with extra panes. Inspired by Brackets's quick edit feature. Or search for quick-editor in Atom settings view.
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- clipboard-plus
- Keeps your clipboard history. No keymap by default.
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- multi-wrap-guide
- Fully customizable wrap guides at multiple column positions. Easily disable draggable guides by using the Multi Wrap Guide: Lock Guides command. This is especially useful when draggable guides are interfering with text selection.
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- focus-dark
- Find the current scope by pressing ⌘⌥P. See focus-light for the light version.
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- expose
- Quick tab overview of open files. Similar to Mac OSX Exposé / Mission Control, Firefox Tab Group, Safari and Chrome Tab Overview, etc. Toggle expose with cmd-shift-e on Mac OSX and alt-shift-e on Linux and Windows.
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- Atom Editor for Sublime Text Users
- I recently made the switch from Sublime Text 3 to GitHub‘s Atom editor. Whilst I was tinkering around last year with the initial Atom preview releases I was only now ready to make the move. I have to say that their 1.0 release video had quite some impact on giving it another shot too :)
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- Visual Studio Code Themes
- Color themes let you modify VS Code's background, text, and language syntax colorization to suit your preferences and work environment. VS Code supports light, dark and high contrast themes. There are several out-of-the-box color themes in VS Code for you to try.
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- February 2017 (version 1.10)
- We quickly published an update after we found a few late breaking issues affecting key extensions. Welcome to the February 2017 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:
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- October 2016 (version 1.7)
- We are releasing 1.7.2 today which includes a new version of the TypeScript Server (to 2.0.10). The update to the server will re-enable the Automatic Type Acquisition (ATA) feature by default for JavaScript users.
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- Visual Studio Code: The top five features
- Visual Studio Code is a new, lightweight, and open-source code editor that can be installed on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.
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- Code editing. Redefined.
- Version 1.9 is now available! Read about the new features and fixes in January. Free. Open source. Runs everywhere.
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- Mastering VS Code's Terminal
- This article makes heavy use of custom settings and keybindings, so make sure you know how they work to get the most out of it. VS Code will try to pick your preferred terminal on Linux and macOS by looking at the $SHELL environment variable, on Windows Powershell is the default.
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- Version control for your Linux /etc/ directory
- One of the many advantages of Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems is that everything is a file and that most of your configuration is done via text files, allowing you to easily read and write to them with any tool you choose.
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- A Flurry of Open Source Graphics Milestones
- The past few months have been busy ones on the open-source graphics front, bringing with them Wayland 1.13, Weston 2.0, Mesa 17.0, and Linux 4.10. These releases have been quite interesting in and of themselves, but the biggest news must be that with Mesa 17.
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- molly-guard – Protects Machines from Accidental Shutdowns/Reboots
- molly-guard is a handy utility which protects machines from accidental shutdowns/reboots by asking your hostname. Many of the Linux professional, working more then one system when they have issues. molly-guard was primarily designed to shield SSH connections.
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- Stacer – A Linux System Optimizer You’ve Been Waiting For
- System optimizer apps are quite the thing on platforms such as Windows and Android. Their usefulness, however, is debatable considering how notorious they are when it comes to using system resources.
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- Make Unity Look Like Chrome OS With a Tint2 Theme
- Tint2 (formerly a panel app,) is a light-weight taskbar for Linux desktops with a large variety of configuration options including tweaking the system tray, clock, battery monitor, and a task list of open app windows.
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- Peek – Create a Animated GIF Recorder in Linux
- Peek is free, open source tool that create/record a selection of your screen to an animated GIF image on Unix like operating system. It uses ffmpeg and imagemagick to creates animated GIF screencasts.
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- 4 step Network bonding / teaming configuration in Linux
- This article explains what is network bonding in Linux. Quick 4 step guide helps you to setup network bonding in your server in minutes. Network bonding or network teaming is binding two physical NIC (Network Interface Card) together to create once virtual NIC.
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- Send file with Telegram
- --- Instructions --- 1. install telegram-cli 2. login with telegram-cli 3. move "telegram-file-sender" script in ~/.script or edit the location in the .desktop file to where you want to keep the script 4. if you have manually downloaded the .desktop file, move it in ~/.
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- KDE-Services
- - Convert several video formats to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, VCD, SVCD, DVD, 3GP, FLV or WebM. - Extract the audio track of several video formats and convert them to MP3, MP3(432Hz), FLAC, FLAC(432Hz), OGG or OGG (432Hz).
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- Skype For Linux Enters Beta, Adds Support For Video Calls With Other Platforms
- The new Skype for Linux app was released as an alpha version back in July, and it included support support for one-to-one and group voice calls, but no video call support. Video call support was added back in October, but only between Skype for Linux Alpha clients
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- Argos Lets You Create GNOME Shell Extensions From Scripts (W/ BitBar Plugin Support)
- Being a GNOME Shell extension itself, Argos adds a button with a dropdown on the GNOME Shell top panel. This button can display or expose functionality provided by a script, be it Bash, Python, Ruby, and so on (remember to make it executable or else Argos won't use it).
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- How to Switch Between Linux Distros Without Losing your Data
- Switching between Linux distributions can be hard when you’re preserving user data. Many users have ways to combat this: cloud storage solutions, external hard drives, flash drives, home servers, etc.
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- Choosing the Best Linux Filesystem for Your SSD
- When setting up a new Linux install with an SSD, many don’t know what file system to go with. This is understandable, as file systems are not talked about enough. When people install Linux, often times they select the default options without thinking about it.
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- A couple of new snap tutorials are now available
- The first one is a pure community contribution thanks to Simos Xenitellis who did a first draft on his own blog.
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- March 2017, “Community Choice” Project of the Month – NAS4Free
- For our March “Community Choice” Project of the Month, the community elected NAS4Free, an embedded Storage distribution for Windows, Mac, & UNIX-like systems. ‘NAS’ stands for “Network-Attached Storage” and it is ‘4Free’ since it is free and open source.
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- Dockerizing LEMP Stack with Docker-Compose on Ubuntu
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? Docker-Compose is a command line tool for defining and managing multi-container docker applications.
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- New Desktop Client 2.3.0 release out now!
- Grab the brand new ownCloud Desktop Client 2.3.0 for either Mac, Windows or Linux (or build it from source)! It features many improvements under the hood as decreased memory (up to 300% !) and CPU usage as well as better time/bandwidth estimation during sync.
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- asciimoo/wuzz
- Wuzz command line arguments are similar to cURL's arguments, so it can be used to inspect/modify requests copied from the browser's network inspector with the "copy as cURL" feature. Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker.
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- Fakerr/git-recall
- git-recall is a simple tool that allows you to easily go through your commits and check what you or other contributors in your team did. It doesn't aim to be a replacement for the git log command, but just to be a handy way to recall what you've done from your terminal.
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- How to install pandom: a true random number generator for Linux
- This tutorial explains how to install pandom: a timing jitter true random number generator maintained by ncomputers.org.
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- Linux Mint 18.1 Is The Best Mint Yet
- The hardcore Linux geeks won’t read this article. They’ll skip right past it… They don’t like Linux Mint much. There’s a good reason for them not to; it’s not designed for them.
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- How To Get Instant Coding Answers Via Commandline In Linux
- Are you a programmer? I have a good news for you. Now, you can get instant coding answers via commandline using ‘howdoi’ utility in Unix-like operating systems. You don’t have to google or use any other online resources to know about some basic programming tasks.
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- Basic of network protocol analyzer Wireshark On Linux
- Wireshark is just one of the valuable tools provided by Kali Linux. Like the others, it can be used for either positive or negative purposes. Of course, this guide will cover monitoring your own network traffic to detect any potentially unwanted activity.
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- Caddy – A Lightweight HTTP/2 Web Server to Deploy and Test Websites Easily
- A web server is a Server side application designed to process HTTP requests between client and server. HTTP is the basic and very widely used network protocol. We all would be familiar with Apache HTTP Server. Apache HTTP Server played an important role in designing what web is today.
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- How To Instantly Share Files And Folders In Arch Linux
- There are many ways to share files or folders in Arch Linux. You could setup a samba share, nfs share, or use USB drive to share or transfer files. But wait, there is an alternative way to instantly share files and folders in Arch Linux.
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- Inxi – A Powerful Feature-Rich Commandline System Information Tool for Linux
- Inxi is a powerful and remarkable command line-system information script designed for both console and IRC (Internet Relay Chat). It can be employed to instantly deduce user system configuration and hardware information, and also functions as a debugging, and forum technical support tool.
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- An introduction to the Linux boot and startup processes
- Understanding the Linux boot and startup processes is important to being able to both configure Linux and to resolving startup issues. This article presents an overview of the bootup sequence using the GRUB2 bootloader and the startup sequence as performed by the systemd initialization system.
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- Linux Digital Audio Workstation Roundup
- In the world of home studio recording, the digital audio workstation is one of the most important tools of the trade. Digital audio workstations are used to record audio and MIDI data into patterns or tracks. This information is then typically mixed down into songs or albums.
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- Meet Flint OS, a Chromium OS Fork for Raspberry Pi & PCs That Runs Android Apps Exclusive
- Will Smith from Flint Innovations Limited is informing Softpedia today about their up and coming Linux-based operating system for PCs and Raspberry Pi devices, Flint OS, based on the open-source Chromium OS project.
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- How to communicate from a Linux shell: Email, instant messaging
- I’m talking about the normal sort of communication most people perform via a web browser (or a handful of graphical applications) nowadays: Email, instant messaging, that sort of thing.
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- Cerebro is an Open Source OS X Spotlight Equivalent for Linux
- Cerebro is a Spotlight alternative for Linux, Windows and, bizarrely, macOS. Billed as an ‘open-source productivity booster with a brain’, Cerebro is an Electron app able to run across multiple platforms.
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- A Minimal Chrome OS Theme for Tint2
- I used to (and sort-of-still-do, I guess) run a sister site focused on Google Chrome, Chromecast and Chromebooks, i.e. the Chrome ecosystem. As such I am a fan of Chromebooks and Chrome OS, a Linux-based distribution based on Gentoo.
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- How To Use the Hidden GNOME Shell Extensions Prefs App
- Did you know that GNOME Shell hides a really useful GNOME Extensions configuration app?
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- Shotcut Video Editor Available As A Snap Package [Quick Update]
- Shotcut is a free, open source Qt5 video editor developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework (it's developed by the same author as MLT), available for Linux, Windows and Mac.
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- 5 open source security tools too good to ignore
- Open source is a wonderful thing. A significant chunk of today’s enterprise IT and personal technology depends on open source software.
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- Linux Kernel 4.10 Officially Released with Virtual GPU Support, Many Features
- As expected, Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the Linux 4.10 kernel series, which add a great number of improvements, new security features, and support for the newest hardware components. Linux kernel 4.
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- All You Need to Know About Display Standards: HDMI, DisplayPort, and More
- A lot of confusion can sprout up where display standards are concerned, especially ones like HDMI and DisplayPort.
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- 10 Of The Best Gnome Shell Extensions
- Ever since Gnome started the extensions site where developers can submit their extensions to the library, there have been a great number of useful extensions that appear in the list. With the new extension site, installation of extensions is simply a mouse click.
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- `Dash To Panel` Is A Cool Icon Taskbar For GNOME Shell
- The extension provides numerous features, including the ability to move the panel to the top or bottom, change the panel size, live window previews, and more.
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- Fruho: A User Friendly VPN Tool for Linux
- Want to set up a VPN connection on your Linux machine? Frustrated and confused on how to do it? This program may be an option for you. It’s called Fruho. Fruho is a lightweight VPN manager for Linux. The developers boast that it requires no configuration to get going.
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- Easily Use Free VPNs From VPN Gate In Linux With These 2 Tools
- In case you're not familiar with VPN Gate, this is project that offers free VPN servers that are ran by volunteers who use SoftEther. It was designed with the Great Firewall of China in Mind and is sponsored by the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
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- Why I Swapped VLC for MPV on Ubuntu
- You don’t need super-powers to predict that most Linux users use VLC as their default media player. In fact, if I were to you all what video player you use on Ubuntu I’d be cowered by the collective cry of ‘VLC’!
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- Rclone Is Now Available As A Snap Package [Quick Update]
- [Quick Update] Rclone is now available as a snap package, making it easy to install and update on a wide range of Linux distributions which support Snaps, like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch Linux, openSUSe and more.
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- Understanding the difference between sudo and su
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? In one of our earlier articles, we discussed the 'sudo' command in detail. Towards the ends of that tutorial, there was a mention of another similar command 'su' in a small note.
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- [How To] Install Mesa 13.0.4 On Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10
- It can be hard to keep track of which version of Mesa is available and where, with various PPAs peppered about the interwebs offering different snapshots at varying degrees of stability! But if you’re wanting to install Mesa 13.0.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Ubuntu 16.
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- OpenMotics: an open source home automation system
- OpenMotics is an open source home automation hardware and software system that offers features like switching lights and outputs, multi-zone heating and cooling, power measurements, and automated actions. The system encompasses both open source software and hardware.
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- 11 Excellent Open Source Solutions for Home Automation
- Do not think home automation is just for geeks. It is now mainstream and a burgeoning industry. Become an home automation expert and try out these finest open source software for home automation. There are some real gems here.
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- How to Install Gulp.js as Build and Task Automation Tool
- Gulp.js is a Node.js based build and task automation tool. Gulp.js has been adopted by developers because of its stream based approach of getting the tasks done rather than the configuration based approach followed by Grunt.js.
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- Top 7 Tools that can automate Linux Admin Task
- In this article, let’s take a look at the some of the tools that can make life easier for the Linux admins by automating his day to day tasks 1. Puppet Puppet is an open source tool designed to make automation and reporting much easier for system administrators.
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- Do You Really Need a Gigabit Connection? 5 Ways to Find Out
- Gigabit internet is the trendy, new kid on the block. Everyone from my mom in the suburbs to local software company owners are discussing Google Fiber’s move into our neck of the woods.
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- How to Auto Execute Commands/Scripts During Reboot or Startup
- I am always fascinated by the things going on behind the scenes when I boot a Linux system and log on. By pressing the power button on a bare metal or starting a virtual machine, you put in motion a series of events that lead to a fully-functional system – sometimes in less than a minute.
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- 6 Reasons Why I Love Using KDE Connect on Ubuntu
- I love using KDE Connect on Ubuntu with the app’s indicator applet. It’s the easiest way to connect my Android phone to my Linux desktop. That goes double now that it (once again) has a nifty Unity indicator, Nautilus integration, and other cool features.
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- Real-time Linux explained
- At ELC Europe, Real-time Linux developer Jan Altenberg described the progress of RTL, compared it to Xenomai and RTAI, and unveiled new benchmarks. Real-time Linux (RTL), a form of mainline Linux enabled with PREEMPT_RT, has come a long way in the past decade.
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- Cryptkeeper – An Easy Way To Encrypt And Decrypt Folder or Directory In Linux
- Your personal documents are stored in Linux system and you want to encrypt the documents (protect the folder with password) to avoid anyone to access the folder without a password. If someone gain your system access, still you can defense the personal documents.
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- Trash-cli : A Command Line Trashcan For Unix-like Systems
- We all know that when we delete a file/folder, they will be moved to a temporary location called ‘Trash’ or ‘Recycle bin’. We can then either delete the contents of Trash permanently or restore them if we need them again.
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- How To Use Plex To Cast Local Videos To Chromecast (From Your Desktop w/ Optional Mobile App)
- This is a long overdue article and I decided to post it so I can simply send it to all those who ask me about the best way to play local videos on a Chromecast.
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- Top 30 SSH shenanigans
- Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. The best known example application is for remote login to computer systems by users.
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- How To Configure SSH Key-based Authentication In Linux
- What is SSH Key-based authentication? As we all know, SSH, also known as Secure Shell, is the cryptographic network protocol that allows you to securely communicate/access a remote system over unsecured network, for example Internet.
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- How to Use SSH Pipes on Linux
- Like most commands on Linux, SSH can be used with input/output redirection via | (Unix Pipe). SSH can be used with this pipeline too. The basic concept here is understanding how the Unix pipeline works. When you understand the way pipes work, you can get seriously creative.
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- How to limit SSH (TCP port 22) connections with ufw on Ubuntu Linux
- You can add limit rule. Currently only IPv4 is supported. With this syntax you can deny connections from an IP address that has attempted to initiate 6 or more connections in the last 30 seconds. This option is very useful for services such as sshd.
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- Allow Or Deny SSH Access To A Particular User Or Group In Linux
- Few days ago, we taught you how to limit a user’s access to Linux system using Restricted shell. Once we have put the users in restricted mode, s/he can’t do anything, except what s/he was allowed to do.
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- OpenSSH Security Best Practices
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? SSH (Secure Shell) is a cryptographic network protocol for initiating text-based shell sessions on remote machines in a secure way. OpenSSH is the standard SSH client and server used by most Linux Distributions.
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- 10 Useful SSH (Secure Shell) Interview Questions and Answers
- SSH stands for Secure Shell is a network protocol, used to access remote machine in order to execute command-line network services and other commands over a Network.
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- Complete solution for online privacy with own private OpenSSH, OpenVPN and VNC server
- We all know that public wifi access is a potential playground for would’ve hackers with nefarious desires.
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- How to create a site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnel using Openswan in Linux
- A virtual private network (VPN) tunnel is used to securely interconnect two physically separate networks through a tunnel over the Internet.
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- How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process In Linux
- Some times, a particular process might consume more CPU usage, and affects the performance of the whole system. Since that particular process consumes more CPU, you couldn’t do other tasks. You need to wait for the particular process to finish before starting a new task.
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- Linux Read CPU Temperature Sensor Chip Data Including Voltage and Fan Speed With lm-sensors
- This tool use the System Management Bus (SMBus or SMB), which is a simple two-wire bus, derived from I²C and used for communication with low-bandwidth devices on a motherboard, especially power related chips such as a laptop’s rechargeable battery subsystem.
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- Generate CPU, Memory & I/O report using SAR command
- SAR stands for System Activity Report, as its name suggest sar command is used to collect,report & save CPU, Memory, I/O usage in Unix like operating system. SAR command produce the reports on the fly and can also save the reports in the log files as well.
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- A Lightweight Screen Recorder for Linux
- Want to record your Ubuntu desktop for a screencast, video tutorial, or bug report? I highly recommend giving Green Recorder a shot. Green Recorder is a minimal yet perfectly functional desktop screen recorder app for Ubuntu.
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- Make Animated Screenshot Gifs Using Gifine for Linux
- Here at OMG! HQ, when we need to make animated gifs on Linux desktop we turn to Peek, because, quite frankly, it’s awesome. But maybe you don’t like Peek. Maybe you don’t like Kgif. Maybe you don’t like Qgifer or any other gif making tool available for Linux.
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- A New Version of SimpleScreenRecorder Has Been Released
- It is the first update to the app in almost a year. SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.x adds support for the latest FFmpeg/libav libraries, supports fragmented recording (whatever that may be) and the indicator applet icon will now notify you when there’s an error during capture.
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- Peek Is An Animated GIF Screen Recorder Tool for Linux
- Take a peek at Peek, a simple utility for doing exactly that! Peek was built “for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g., for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports,” explains the developer.
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- How to Perform Screen Recording in Ubuntu Using SimpleScreenRecorder
- Screen recording is extremely useful in many cases. For example: while creating training materials, demonstrating how a feature works, and showing off your gaming prowess.
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- PulseAudio 10.0 Linux Sound System Released, Offers OpenSSL 1.1.0 Compatibility
- Today, January 19, 2017, sees the official release of the PulseAudio 10.0 open-source sound server for Linux-based operating systems, a major version that introduces many exciting new features. PulseAudio 10.
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- Google Drive CLI Client For Linux
- The client that we’re going to use is called Gdrive. You can get Gdrive easily, just follow the link below and download the appropriate version for your system, it can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X and obviously on Linux.
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- Wine 2.0 Stable Released, Install It In Ubuntu Or Linux Mint
- Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) allows running Microsoft Windows application on Unix-like operating systems. It is written primarily using reverse engineering, to avoid copyright issues.Wine 2.
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- Wine 2.0 Released
- An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: It's finally here! After so many months of development and hard work, during which over 6,600 bugs have been patched, the Wine project is happy to announce today, January 24, 2017, the general availability of Wine 2.0. Wine 2.
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- Understanding Video Aspect Ratios
- Do you know the difference between 16:9 and 4:3 and 1.85:1 and 1.
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- Play SRT Subtitles On Top Of Any Video With Penguin Subtitle Player
- You can also use Penguin Subtitle Player to display subtitles on custom positions (like on the black bottom/top bands), or to display multiple subtitles in the same time (since the app can be launched multiple times), for video players or video streaming websites that don't support this by default.
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- How to Easily Record an Audio or Video Podcast on Linux
- Are podcasts a dying trend? In the last month of 2014, approximately 15 percent of Americans over the age of 12 had listened to one. In 2013, that was 12 percent. In 2008, 9 percent. The stats are pretty clear: podcasts still have a lot of life left.
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- OpenShot 2.1 Released!
- I am proud to announce the release of OpenShot 2.1, which contains a huge number of new features, bug fixes, and improvements! Enjoy the release video, which by the way, was created with OpenShot 2.1 (of course)! You can check out more of her work @ DeviantArt.
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- How to Get NVIDIA’s GPU Assisted Video Encoding (NVENC) to Work in Ubuntu
- Encoding video files can be a complete drag. Even with the fastest CPUs out on the market, the process can take up to about as long as the video itself (e.g. thirty minutes of encoding for a thirty-minute video).
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- Your Best Bets for Video Playback in Linux
- If Linux is your desktop of choice (and why wouldn’t it be?), then most likely you’ve come across one reason or another to play a video.
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- What You Need to Know About Video Encoding
- These days we have the opportunity to make HD videos on our computer. It’s astonishing that we can even do that at all, let alone do so at such high quality.
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- Broadcast Video Streams on Linux with Open Broadcaster
- For the longest time streaming has been nearly impossible to do on Linux. Sure, you could use a hacky FFMPEG script to get it done, but nobody who’s not incredibly savvy with that kind of thing could ever accomplish this. Look no further.
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- Open-source video editor Shotcut now with better 4K support
- The developers of the Open-sourcevideo editor Shotcut made some huge improvements to the application and it gets better 4K support. It was already possible to handle and edit 4K video with Shotcut, this wasn’t a really simple process. But that has changed now with the latest update.
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- Audio-Video Production On Linux: Best Software
- Over the years, I've heard both Windows users and Linux enthusiasts make the claim that professional media production on Linux is impossible.
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- How to Make a Watermark on Videos in Kdenlive
- If you’ve ever used YouTube for any amount of time, you might have noticed that some users have started adding little logos on top of their videos. These things are known as watermarks.
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- How to Decompile a Video File Into Images with FFMPEG on Linux
- Have you ever recorded a video clip and then wondered “How do I turn this entire thing into individual images?” If so, this guide is probably what you’re looking for. You see, there’s a tool out there called FFMPEG. It is a video tool and can be used for a multitude of things.
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- Create Animated GIFs from Videos on Linux
- Animated gifs are ubiquitous on social media websites, messengers and more. They are usually short and straight to the point.
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- How to Encode H.265 Video Using ffmpeg on Linux
- Almost all the video we watch, over digital terrestrial TV, over cable, from satellite, or over the Internet, is compressed. Raw, uncompressed video is just too big and would waste too much bandwidth. Way back before DVD and Blu-ray, there was the Video CD (VCD).
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- How to use Avidemux for Video Editing
- Rollbar: Users finding bugs? Searching logs for errors? Find + fix broken code fast! Thankfully, the open source world offers many good choices when it comes to video editing. Some of the most popular choices are the PiTiVi, OpenShot, Kdenlive and Blender.
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- How to Stream Online Videos on VLC in Linux
- Usually there are a couple of ways to view online videos on Linux – through desktop apps and through your Web browser. While there’s no problem in any of the two aforementioned approaches, per se, different users have different preferences.
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- LosslessCut Is An Easy To Use Video Cutter (Cross-Platform)
- If you find video editors to be confusing and all you need is to just cut a portion of a video, you can try LosslessCut, an application available for Linux, Windows and Mac.
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- Take Linux From Zero to Boot in Less Than a Second
- Some of us here at FOSS Force don’t mind waiting for a computer to boot. It reminds us of the old days when, after turning on the TV, radio or record player, we had to wait for the tubes to warm up.
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- 5 Ubuntu Unity Features You May Not Have Known About
- Ubuntu Unity has been around for a while and debuted in release 11.04. Since then Canonical has been introducing new features in each release. Some features have been embraced by the Ubuntu community at large. As a result, these features are still talked about to this day.
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- Hide Files And Folders In Nemo Or Nautilus Without Renaming With This Extension
- I recently stumbled upon Nautilus Hide, an extension that adds a context menu option to hide / unhide files or folders without renaming them, and I decided to port it to Nemo file manager.
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- OpenToonz: Making high-end animation software accessible
- Kostanstin Dmitriev is one of the pioneers making professional animation tools available for Linux users. His primary focus over the years has been the ongoing development of Synfig Studio, a 2D animation program.
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- FFmpeg 3.2.3 "Hypatia" Open-Source Multimedia Framework Released with 35 Fixes
- The major FFmpeg 3.2 "Hypatia" open-source multimedia framework recently received its third maintenance release, versioned 3.2.3, which brings up-to-date components and a bunch of various improvements. FFmpeg 3.2.
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- Split and merge files in linux.
- We can split and merge files in linux especially for large once with the split command, and to join you just need to cat the files into one file. Split can be used on binaries as well on text files. Here filename is the file that you want split.
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- Latest revision to the official Android emulator increases performance dramatically
- The Android SDK isn't something that normal users see all that often (except perhaps when they're unlocking the bootloader on a new phone), but developers still rely on it heavily. One of the components included in the collection of desktop tools is Google's first-party Android emulator.
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- YouTube Go makes its debut on Android with offline-centric viewing experience
- In the latter half of 2016, YouTube announced plans for a new app, YouTube Go. Designed to minimize cellular data usage, the app was destined for a debut in India and today, it’s finally available. YouTube Go was designed with developing countries in mind that have less access to the internet.
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- How to protect your server with badIPs.com and report IPs with Fail2ban on Debian
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? This tutorial documents the process of using the badips abuse tracker in conjunction with Fail2ban to protect your server or computer. I've tested it on a Debian 8 Jessie and Debian 7 Wheezy.
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- 10 Screen Command Examples to Manage Linux Terminals
- Screen is a full-screen software program that can be used to multiplexes a physical console between several processes (typically interactive shells). It offers a user to open several separate terminal instances inside a one single terminal window manager.
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- How to Customize the Terminal in Ubuntu
- Whenever a new version of a popular Linux distro (say Ubuntu) is released, the Internet gets flooded with articles on how to customize it to better suit your needs/requirements.
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- How to practically use your Linux terminal (part 2)
- Rollbar: Users finding bugs? Searching logs for errors? Find + fix broken code fast! Quite a while ago, we had published a post that showcased four examples of how Linux users can utilize their terminal to perform simple daily tasks and fulfill common everyday use needs.
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- How to record your terminal session on Linux
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? Recording a terminal session may be important in helping someone learn a process, sharing information in an understandable way, and also presenting a series of commands in a proper manner.
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- How to Start Linux Command in Background and Detach Process in Terminal
- In this guide, we shall bring to light a simple yet important concept in process handling in a Linux system, that is how to completely detach a process from its controlling terminal. To deal with these two issues, you need to totally detach a process from a controlling terminal.
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- Record your Terminal activity using ‘Script’ Command
- You will get a message something like below. Now, everything you entered in the Terminal will be saved in a file called typescript.
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- santinic/how2
- if it gives you EACCES errors, you need to fix npm permissions. Or you can just use sudo npm install -g how2 if you don't care. Then just install NodeJS.
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- How to Access Linux Server Terminal in Web Browser Using ‘Wetty (Web + tty)’ Tool
- As a system administrator, you probably connect to remote servers using a program such as GNOME Terminal (or the like) if you’re on a Linux desktop, or a SSH client such as Putty if you have a Windows machine, while you perform other tasks like browsing the web or checking your email.
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- How to Access Linux Server Terminal in Web Browser Using 'Wetty (Web + tty)' Tool
- As a system administrator, you probably connect to remote servers using a program such as GNOME Terminal (or the like) if you’re on a Linux desktop, or a SSH client such as Putty if you have a Windows machine, while you perform other tasks like browsing the web or checking your email.
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- Display Awesome Linux Logo With Basic Hardware Info Using screenfetch and linux_logo Tools
- Do you want to display a super cool logo of your Linux distribution along with basic hardware information? Look no further try awesome screenfetch and linux_logo utilities. screenFetch is a CLI bash script to show system/theme info in screenshots.
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- Customise Terminal to Make Everyday UNIX Hacking Special
- Most of us don’t hit the terminal window too often to make hands on changes to the UNIX system underlying OS X. But when you do, you really notice how boring the interface is. Obviously it’s merely functional, and there’s reasons for that.
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- Shell In A Box – A Web-Based SSH Terminal to Access Remote Linux Servers
- Shell In A Box (pronounced as shellinabox) is a web based terminal emulator created by Markus Gutschke.
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- 5 Highly Promising Terminal Emulators
- The terminal emulator is a venerable but essential tool for computer users. The reason why Linux offers so much power is due to the command line. The Linux shell can do so much, and this power can be accessed on the desktop by using a terminal emulator.
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- Plasma 5.9 Kicks off 2017 in Style
- Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Today KDE releases this year’s first Plasma feature update, Plasma 5.9. While this release brings many exciting new features to your desktop, we'll continue to provide bugfixes to Plasma 5.8 LTS.
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- Arc Theme for KDE Plasma? Yup, It Exists
- We’re big fans of the Arc GTK theme here on OMG! Ubuntu! — but I’m going to guess you already know that. Over the past few months we’ve shown you how to install the Arc theme on Ubuntu (and how it’ll be available on Ubuntu 16.
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- 3 Brand New Plasma 5 Themes by half-left
- I don't even remember the last time when I used KDE. The versions after KDE 3.x were not really my cup of tea. But when Sean mailed me some of his new works, I just had to try KDE one more time.
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- 9 Great KDE Plasma Themes
- KDE Plasma truly is a beautiful desktop. Top to bottom it has some of the best design in all of Linux. Still, not everyone likes the way the Plasma Desktop looks by default.
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- Useful Meld tips/tricks for intermediate users
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? Meld is a feature-rich visual comparison and merging tool available for Linux. If you're new to the tool, you can head to our beginner's guide to get a quick know-how of how the utility works.
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- How to compare directories with Meld on Linux
- Rollbar: Users finding bugs? Searching logs for errors? Find + fix broken code fast! We've already covered Meld from a beginner's point of view (including the tool's installation part), and we've also covered some tips/tricks that are primarily aimed at intermediate Meld users.
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- RcloneBrowser (Rclone GUI) Lets You Manage Multiple Cloud Storage Services From A Single Desktop App
- In case you're not familiar with Rclone, this is a command line tool for synchronizing files from or to cloud storage services, which supports Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox, Microsoft One Drive, Amazon S3, Amazon Drive, Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore, Hubic,
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- Ubuntu Bluetooth Headphones Fix
- After extensive testing and research, I have put together a complete work-around for playing high-quality audio through Bluetooth headphones using the Blueman Bluetooth application. I haven’t bothered testing this with other Bluetooth applications.
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- Prevent Files And Folders From Accidental Deletion Or Modification In Linux
- Data protection is one of the main job of a System administrator. There are numerous free and commercial data protection softwares are available on the market.
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- A comprehensive guide to taking screenshots in Linux using gnome-screenshot
- Have an app idea and want to see if it'll fly? There are several screenshot taking tools available in the market but most of them are GUI based.
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- SMPlayer 17.1 Features ‘Experimental Support’ for Chromecast
- Chromecast support is offered in the latest release of SMPlayer, a versatile cross-platform front-end to MPlayer. SMPlayer 17.
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- How to copy a single file to multiple directories in Linux or Unix
- If I want to copy a single file into three locations (directories), by using a single cp command (e.g. cp file /dir1/ /dir2/ /dir3/. Would that be possible? If yes, please provide the command for GNU/Linux or Unix operating systems. The short answer is no.
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- 10 Essential Linux Network Commands
- Hello folks, today let’s take a look at some 10 essential Linux network commands. These commands may be used to configure, to troubleshoot your network or to obtain some more information all via the terminal in Linux.
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- How To Save Linux Command Output To An Image Or A File
- Ever been in a situation where you have to send the output of a Linux command to your colleague or friend to get help? This simple Linux hack will definitely be useful to you.
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- Using rsync to back up your Linux system
- Backups are an incredibly important aspect of a system administrator’s job. Without good backups and a well-planned backup policy and process, it is a near certainty that sooner or later some critical data will be irretrievably lost.
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- The Easy Way To Install Remmina 1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Do you use the remote desktop app Remmina? If so you may be interested to know that a Snap package of the latest release is now available on Ubuntu.
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- Metamorphose 2 Bulk Rename Tool Available In PPA For Ubuntu 16.10 [Quick Update]
- Metamorphose 2 is an advanced batch file and folder renamer for Linux and Windows. The application features a wide range of renaming options, allows previewing changes before applying them, allows saving the renaming rules for future use, and much more.Metamorphose 2 uses wxWidgets 2.
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- How to Easily Download Movie Subtitles in Linux
- Movie subtitles make it much easier to watch a movie, even if you are fluent in the language the movie is in. I sometimes can’t hear what the actors are saying because of all the surrounding noise in a particular scene, not to mention all the dialects and accents encountered onscreen.
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- Linux command line navigation tips/tricks 3 - the CDPATH environment variable
- In the first part of this series, we discussed the cd - command in detail, and the in the second part, we took an in-depth look into the pushd and popd commands as well as the scenarios where-in they come in handy.
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- Top Software
- The number of open source applications and tools that are available on today’s popular operating systems is simply mind-blowing. They come in all forms.
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- Emoji Picker GNOME Extension
- You folks must think that I’m obsessed with Emoji, but you’d be …No, you’d be absolutely right about that. Actually, I don’t overuse the popular pictorial glyphs that dominate daily communication. But I do appreciate being able to find the one I want to use in a timely manner.
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- How to debug C programs in Linux using gdb
- Regardless of how experienced a coder you are, any software you develop can't be completely free of bugs. So, identifying bugs and fixing them is one of the most important tasks in the software development cycle.
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- What To Expect In GIMP 2.10
- The GIMP is our favorite image editing app for Linux, and this year it’s set to get even better. The development team behind the hugely popular open-source project this week shared word about ‘what’s next for GIMP‘ in 2017.
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- Support for touch screens and more!!!
- SMPlayer includes now a 'tablet mode', available in the menu Options. When the option is turned on it makes some changes in the interface so that it would be easier to control SMPlayer by touching the screen.
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- Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux
- In another push towards Mesa finishing OpenGL for all vendors where possible, Intel Haswell chips now have support for OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa on Linux. It comes as of this commit to the mesa-dev list. Pretty awesome work, in the space of ~2 weeks Haswell went from OpenGL 4.0 right up to 4.5.
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- How To Assign Output of a Linux Command to a Variable
- When you run a command, it produces some kind of output: either the result of a program is suppose to produce or status/error messages of the program execution details. Sometimes, you may want to store the output of a command in a variable to be used in a later operation.
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- Linux command line navigation tips: the basics of pushd and popd commands
- In the first part of this series, we focused on the command line navigation aspect in Linux by discussing the usage of the cd - command. Some other related points/concepts were also discussed.
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- Integrate Your Android Device With Ubuntu Using KDE Connect Indicator Fork
- KDE Connect is a tool which allows your Android device to integrate with your Linux desktop. With KDE Connect Indicator, you can use KDE Connect on desktop that support AppIndicators, like Unity, Xfce (Xubuntu), and so on.
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- Add A Searchable Command Palette To Any GTK3 Application Using Plotinus
- Plotinus is a library that adds a searchable command palette to any GTK+ 3 application, similar to the Atom and Sublime Text Command Palette feature (or Unity HUD). For how to install Plotinus in other Linux distributions, see its installation section on GitHub.
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- Package Details: emacs-org-mode-git 9.0.3.245.g6dc6eb3b0-1
- New git version gives longer version numbers, no need to update. My installation would not work without org-loaddefs.el.
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- incrediblesound/DiamondDB
- DiamondDB was a 24hr hackathon I did after accidentally drinking an espresso fused hot chocolate in the late afternoon. Because I only drink very small amounts of caffeine, the drink had an intense effect and I was incredibly motivated to write a database.
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- How to use Pulse to manage sound on Linux
- It happens to everyone, and usually only when it matters the most. You might be gearing up for a family Christmas video chat, settling in for a movie night on your big screen TV, or getting ready to record a tune that popped into your head and needs freeing.
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- Learn The Basics of How Linux I/O (Input/Output) Redirection Works
- One of the most important and interesting topics under Linux administration is I/O redirection.
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- 12 Linux GNU Binary Utilities Binutils Commands with Examples (as, ld, ar, nm, objcopy, objdump, size, strings, strip, c++flint, addr2line, readelf Command Examples)
- The GNU Binary Utilities, usually called as binutils, is a collection of development tools that handle assembly files, object files, and libraries.
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- How to record a region of your desktop as animated GIF on Linux
- Urban Airship: The #1 push notification platform for top brands. It won't be a stretch to say - and you'll likely agree - that animated gifs have become a rage in the past few years.
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- How to snap: introducing classic confinement
- Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at the most prominent feature of this release: classic confinement.
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- Perform a Google Search from the Command Line in Linux
- When you want to do a search in Google, the most common behavior is to open a browser, load the Google website and type in your search term. For those command line geeks, how about an easier way to run Google search from the command line?
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- How To Install KDE Connect on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Updated)
- KDE Connect is an awesome way to get Android notifications on your Linux desktop, send files to and from your phone, and a whole lot more. But you might not fancy switching to a Plasma desktop to use it.
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- How to Quickly Clear Your System Cache in Ubuntu
- You probably know that your web browser keeps a cache of the websites you visit so subsequent visits will be loaded very quickly. Linux, like your browser, also keeps a system cache – application cache, apt cache, etc. – so subsequent loading of the application will be very fast.
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- How to find network card driver name and version on Linux
- Question: An Ethernet network interface card is attached to my Linux box, and I would like to know which network adapter driver is installed for the NIC hardware.
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- Firefox Developer Edition Gets Flatpak’d
- Some great news for fans of distro-agnostic app distribution: Firefox Developer Edition is now available to install as a Flatpak! Yup, the dev-friendly flavour of the venerable open-source browser is available to install messing around with installers, RPMs or unpacking zip files to double-c
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- How to Perform Comprehensive File Searches in Linux
- Suppose you wanted to search for mp3 files (as well as files that contain the string “mp3” in their name) on your Linux system, what would you do? It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that most of you would go for the commonly-used desktop searching techniques.
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- How to Install Qgit Viewer in Ubuntu
- Git is a useful tool for developers, as it makes it very easy to control versions of software, issue patches, and contribute upstream. Though, for as helpful as Git is, a lot of interaction with Git is done with the command line, and it is tedious.
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- 10 desktop snaps written in December
- It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over the more traditional package formats such as .deb, .
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- How to do line-by-line comparison of files in Linux using diff command - Part II
- In the first part of this diff command tutorial series, we discussed the basics of the command, including how it works and how the output it produces can be comprehended.
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- How to do line-by-line comparison of files in Linux using diff command
- If you are a Linux user, and your job involves working on various Linux distributions, there may be times when you'll find yourself typing commands on a Linux system with no GUI.
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- How to compare three files in Linux using diff3 tool
- Urban Airship: The #1 push notification platform for top brands. In one of our earlier tutorials, we discussed a Linux command line utility - dubbed diff - that allows you to compare two files line by line.
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- How to Quickly Search for Emoji from Linux Command Line
- Emojis have no doubt become one of the most popular ways to express emotions when communicating digitally. Their popularity can be measured by the fact that there’s even a movie titled “The Emoji Movie” that’s set for release in the second half of 2017.
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- How to Quickly Clear Your System Cache in Ubuntu
- You probably know that your web browser keeps a cache of the websites you visit so subsequent visits will be loaded very quickly. Linux, like your browser, also keeps a system cache – application cache, apt cache, etc. – so subsequent loading of the application will be very fast.
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- Ghostwriter, an Open-Source Markdown Editor
- Ghostwriter is a free, open-source markdown editor for Linux and Windows. Billed as being ‘distraction free’, the Qt based app doesn’t scrimp on features at the expense of looking minimal and stylish.
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- Must have Ubuntu Packages
- For most people, any default Ubuntu installation will meet their needs. Ubuntu provides users with Web browsing, email, along with various communication tools right out of the box. Heck, even basic backups are provided...although you must take the time to configure it.
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- What Is Wayland and What Does It Means for Linux Users
- Fedora 25 is now out. People are buzzing, as the team have decided to make Wayland the default graphical session going forward. For many Linux users Wayland is a new term that has popped up, but one that they do not understand.
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- httpstat – A Curl Statistics Tool to Check Website Performance
- httpstat is a Python script that reflects curl statistics in a fascinating and well-defined way, it is a single file which is compatible with Python 3 and requires no additional software (dependencies) to be installed on a users system.
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- Hyper Is a Terminal Emulator Built Using Web Technologies
- But did you know that there’s an JS/HTML/CSS Terminal? It’s called Hyper (formerly/also known as HyperTerm, though it has no relation to the Windows terminal of the same/similar name) and, usefulness aside, it’s certainl a novel proof-of-concept.
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- Manuskript is a Promising Open-Source Scrivener Alternative
- Whether you plan to work on a book, a screenplay, or better structure your dissertation, you’ll probably see apps like Scrivener recommended.
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- How to use and make the most of fuser command in Linux
- Suppose you are given a task to identify the processes that are using a particular file, and then kill them one by one - all this has to be done from the command line. What would you do? Well, if you are a command line newbie, I am sure you'd be clueless, asking around for help.
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- 10 open source tools for your sysadmin toolbox
- Sysadmins, no matter what platforms they work on, are awash in great open source software tools. In this article, we highlight well-known—and not-so-well-known—tools that have released new versions in 2016. "Microsoft loves Linux" has been a constant refrain from Redmond lately.
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- Brave Software
- The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser. Soon, micropayments and better ads will give users and publishers a better deal.
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- Linux Check Disk Space Command
- Linux command to check disk space df command - Shows the amount of disk space used and available on Linux file systems. du command - Display the amount of disk space used by the specified files and for each subdirectory.
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- 4 alternatives to Ghost for disk cloning
- System administration professionals and home users alike share a need for the ability to be able to quickly and reliably make one-to-one copies of entire disks, both for the purposes of backup and recovery, as well as the process of easing deployments and complete refresh repairs and upgrades of exi
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- Yandex.Disk - an alternative to Google Drive with native Linux support
- Google Drive is a powerful tool. It is a cloud-based file storage and sharing service from the well-known software company. It is fast, reliable and popular. But there is a limitation for Linux users: the Google Drive client is not available for any Linux distribution.
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- How to Check Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Hard Disk in Linux
- Let us start by defining a bad sector/block, it’s a section on a disk drive or flash memory that can not be read from or written to anymore, as a result of a fixed physical damage on the disk surface or failed flash memory transistors.
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- Agedu – Find Out Wasted Disk Space In Linux
- Today, let us talk about a simple, yet another must-have utility in your arsenal. Meet agedu, a small utility that tracks down the wasted disk space in your Linux system. Running out of disk space? No worries! Install agedu and find out which directories or files are consuming more space.
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- The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't
- Much has been written about a purported OpenSSH vulnerability. On closer inspection, the reports actually got most of their facts wrong. Read on for the full story.
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- Configure "No Password SSH Keys Authentication" with PuTTY on Linux Servers
- SSH (Secure SHELL) is one of the most used network protocol to connect and login to remote Linux servers, due to its increased security provided by its cryptographic secure channel established for data flow over insecure networks and its Public Key Authentication.
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- openssh-7.0p1 deprecates ssh-dss keys
- In light of recently discovered vulnerabilities, the new openssh-7.0p1 release deprecates keys of ssh-dss type, also known as DSA keys. See the upstream announcement for details. Before updating and restarting sshd on a remote host, make sure you do not rely on such keys for connecting to it.
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- How To Stop SSH Session From Disconnecting In Linux
- My SSH session is closed after few minutes of inactivity, how do I prevent this? One of my friend has asked this question. It’s easy! As you might know already, SSH sessions will be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity for security reasons.
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- How to Mount Remote Linux Filesystem or Directory Using SSHFS Over SSH
- The main purpose of writing this article is to provide a step-by-step guide on how to mount remote Linux file system using SSHFS client over SSH. This article is useful for those users and system administrators who want to mount remote file system on their local systems for whatever purposes.
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- Reclaiming the PDF from Adobe Reader — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
- While it is still possible to install Adobe Reader on GNU/Linux, Adobe's attempts to hide access to the product for certain users is only one example of its systematic neglect of its GNU/Linux user base, and falls in line with many others as a demonstration of the importance of free software--softw
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- Recover Lost PDF Passwords with pdfcrack (Linux)
- Securing your important PDF documents with a password can be a great way to ensure your privacy remains unbroken – until you lose, or forget the password.
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- How to convert jpg image file to pdf format on Linux
- The JPG (JPEG) format is without any doubt the most popular format used to share images on the Internet. However, there are several advantages in using PDF images compared to JPG images.
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- How to add bookmarks to a PDF document on Linux
- Question: I would like to add bookmarks to a PDF file, so that the bookmarks appear in the left hand side bookmarks panel.
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- 5 Best Linux PDF Editors
- For the purposes of this article, I tested a variety of Linux PDF editors, both open-source and proprietary, with two PDF documents, a PDF generated by Wikipedia, as well as a large PDF from Adobe with many pages and images, in order to see how each program handled them.
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- Ranks/emojione
- There's no better way to port our emoji into your device than through a native font. We don't have the resources ourselves to construct fonts, so we'll depend on helpful contributions from the open source community.
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- 4 of the Most Underrated Features in VLC Player
- VideoLAN Player (known commonly as VLC or VLC Player) has been around for many years and has seen widespread use on both Linux and Windows because of its insane amount of versatility and comprehensive set of features that many other video players failed to deliver.
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- Uncommon but useful GCC command line options - part 2
- The gcc compiler offers a seemingly never-ending list of command line options. Of course, no body uses or has expertise on all of them, but there are a select bunch that every gcc user should - if not must - know. While some of them are commonly used, others are a bit uncommon but no less useful.
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- Uncommon but useful GCC command line options
- Software tools usually offer multiple features, but - as most of you will agree - not all their features are used by everyone. Generally speaking, there's nothing wrong in that, as each user has their own requirement and they use the tools within that sphere only.
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- CLI Companion - a tool to learn linux commands.
- This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
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- CLI System Tool ‘Neofetch’ Gets a Big Update
- We recently introduced you to Neofetch, a neat command-line based system info tool for Unix-based systems — and you really seem to love it! More than 60 of you have shared a screenshot of Neofetch running on your desktop with us in comments section of that post.
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- Find Out All Live Hosts IP Addresses Connected on Network in Linux
- There are plenty of network monitoring tools you can find in the Linux ecosystem, that can generate for you a summary of the total number of devices on a network including all their IP addresses and more.
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- Managing devices in Linux
- There are many interesting features of the Linux directory structure. This month I cover some fascinating aspects of the /dev directory.
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