| by Scott Kilroy

Home automation with a Raspberry Pi

Control devices from different manufacturers of home automation devices from a single interface by combining free software and a Raspberry Pi.

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Installing Xubuntu on a Dell notebook

Combining a Dell notebook with Xubuntu and an M.2 SSD makes for a reasonably priced, high-performance system for all your 3D printing projects.

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Creating and solving mazes with Go

Mazes fascinated even the ancient Greeks. Mike Schilli uses his Go programming skills to create a maze and then efficiently travel through it.

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An efficient command-line email client

Mutt, a command-line email client, can do anything a desktop client can with less overhead and a smaller attack surface. Here’s how to get started.

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Getting started with the ELK Stack monitoring solution

ELK Stack is a powerful monitoring system known for efficient log management and versatile visualization. This hands-on workshop will help you take your first steps with setting up your own ELK Stack monitoring solution.

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| by Scott Kilroy

News Fix

Once upon a time, everybody linked to everybody on the web, and that was OK, because every business that depended on the web for revenue could go and sell advertising.

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How to Install CHEF Workstation in RHEL and CentOS 8/7

The post How to Install CHEF Workstation in RHEL and CentOS 8/7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Chef is one of the popular configuration management tools, which is used to rapidly automate deployment, configurations, and ma…

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Linux vs. Windows: A Casual, Realistic Perspective

Hint: “Linux is and has always been the best tool for my workflow.” 
Linux vs. Windows: A Casual, Realistic Perspective

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Linux Sponge – Soaking Up Input and Writing It to a File

Learn about this interesting tool with this short tutorial.

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Tips for Using the screen Command

A quick introduction to using the screen command so that a disconnected remote session does not end up killing a process accidentally.

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Patches for Multiple New GRUB2 Security Flaws Start Rolling Out to Linux Distros, Update Now

Users are urged to update their Debian Buster installations to GRUB2 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4. 
 

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LibreOffice 7.1 Office Suite Gets First Point Release, Fixes for over 90 Bugs

 “Community” edition makes needed updates to the bleeding edge version.

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Ten fdisk Commands to Manage Linux Disk Partitions

Quickly view, create, resize, delete, change, copy and move partitions on a hard drive.

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MultiCD: A Shell Script to Combine Multiple Bootable ISOs on One CD

Build a multiboot CD image that can contain different, small Linux distros and/or utilities.

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Asymmetric Multi Processing with Linux & Zephyr on the STM32MP1

Using Zephyr alongside Linux can be a simple and efficient way to take advantage of many SoCs’ additional cores.

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Canonical Chooses Google’s Flutter UI SDK to Build Future Ubuntu Apps

The Flutter SDK is available in the Snap Store.
 

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| by Scott Kilroy

Six Ways to Check User Information in Linux

User info can be identified in a number of ways beyond the id command. 

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Enable LUKS Disk Encryption with Key File on Linux

You’ll also create a backup passphrase to open encrypted disk volume in case your key file damaged.

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Guake Terminal: A Customizable Linux Terminal for Power Users [Inspired by an FPS Game]

Guake is a terminal emulator that’s tailored for GNOME desktop with a top-down design.

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How to Install Moodle with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 20.04

Moodle is a free and open-source Learning Management System written in PHP. It provides a way for tutors and instructors to create courses for their students or learners.

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