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February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Use PPA Purge in Ubuntu and Other Debian-based Distros

The handy command line utility disables a PPA then removes or downgrades the package installed with it.

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

Do Static Site Generation With The Shell

mkws is a static site generator (SSG) written in nothing but the good old shell.
Do Static Site Generation With The Shell

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Find Which IP Addresses are Connected to Linux

ss offers a fast, reliable, info-rich method to view all the connected IPs.

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

OpenRGB: Open Source RGB Lighting Control For Keyboards, Fans, Mice, and More

Customize your entire system from a single application.
OpenRGB: Open Source RGB Lighting Control For Keyboards, Fans, Mice, and More

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Install Odoo 12 on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is a simple and intuitive suite of open-source enterprise management applications.

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8

MondoDB is used in many modern web applications because it can be easily integrated with several programming languages.

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

Red Hat Summit 2021 Preview

Registration is open for Red Hat Summit 2021and the price is right—it’s free.

February 18, 2021 | by Arround The Web

Distribution Release: Mabox Linux 21.02

Mabox Linux is a Manjaro-based rolling release distribution. Mabox Linux features the Openbox window manager as its default interface and provides a welcome screen with access to utilities which add additional software to the operating system. The pro…

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Check the Speed of Your ssh Connection

PV is a command-line tool that allows the monitoring of data being sent through the pipe.

February 18, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

Run A Second Linux Desktop With Qemu And KVM

Sometimes a bit of testing saves the day if you can do it on a disposable Linux machine of some sort.

February 17, 2021 | by Arround The Web

Learn Difference Between Sourcing and Forking in Bash

The post Learn Difference Between Sourcing and Forking in Bash first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .The main focus of this article is to clearly understand what happens when you run the script vs source the script in bash. First…

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Create and Run New Service Units in Systemd

Set up scripts to run repetitive jobs every time you boot your machine.

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Fix NTFS Partition Failed to Mount Error in Linux

ntfsfix
is a tiny and useful utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. Here’s how to use it.

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

Add or Convert Timestamps to Any Output

Here’s how to use the ts command.

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

Metro Exodus Still Due to Release for Linux This Year

Deep Silver and 4A Games have just debuted Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition.

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

Announcing Monado 21.0.0, an Officially Conformant OpenXR Implementation!

The first major release version of the OpenXR runtime for Linux is now available.

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Access Remote Windows Desktops from Ubuntu Linux

Install and use RDP clients to access Win boxes.

February 17, 2021 | by Arround The Web

BSD Release: pfSense 2.5.0

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD specifically tailored for use as a firewall and router that is entirely managed via web interface. The project’s latest release, pfSense 2.5.0, is based on FreeBSD 12.2. The release ann…

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to create an SFTP-enabled Server on AWS

AWS Transfer Family supports Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to transfer files to and from AWS S3 or AWS EFS(Elastic File System). In this article, we will see the steps to …

February 17, 2021 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Install Friendica Social Network Platform on Ubuntu 20.04

Friendica is a free, open-source and decentralized social networking platform that helps you to build and maintain your own social networking projects. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Friendica with Apache and Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubu…