Krita 5.0 Enters Public Beta Testing with All-New Resource System, Many New Features

Development on Krita 5.0 kicked off a few months ago, and, as a major release, it promises numerous new features and improvements. The biggest change being an all-new resource system that has been in development for a few years now. With the new resource system in place, Krita 5.0 will no longer load all brushes, […]

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What’s the Difference Between Grep, Egrep, and Fgrep in Linux?

The grep utility is a renowned search tool on Unix-like systems that can be used to search for files or lines. It offers vast functionality and supports a number of options like searching using string pattern, reg-ex pattern, or Perl based reg-ex. Read…

An Overview of the Basic Cat Commands in Linux

‘Cat’ is one of the most commonly used commands in Linux operating systems (short for “concatenate”). This is a standard Unix application that concatenates and displays files. It is also possible to grow files quickly using cat commands. Using the cat command, you can read and write data from standard input and output devices. Learn […]

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Debian vs. Ubuntu: What’s the Difference? Which One Should You Use?

Debian and Ubuntu are two of the most popular distributions, but they’re also very similar. So, what’s the difference between the two, and which one should you use? Read more about Debian and Ubuntu here to guide your decision.
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Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command

The part of the operating system responsible for managing files and directories is called the file system. It organizes our data into files, which hold information and directories (also called ‘folders’). Several commands are frequently used to create, inspect, rename, and delete files and directories. One of these commands is ls, which prints the names […]

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Differences Between Snap, AppImage, and Flatpak

In this post, we will look at the differences between these three package formats – Snap, AppImage, and Flatpak.
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5 of the Best Password Managers for Linux

We no longer have to write down all our passwords in a log. This article takes a look at some of the best password managers for Linux.
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How to Install Netdata Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 20.04

Server monitoring is the main and most important part of Linux administration. Regardless of the complexity of our infrastructure – a single VPS or high availability clusters, we should constantly monitor many different aspects of our network and hardware infrastructure. to ensure that everything is functioning as it should be, in order to avoid possible […]

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These are 12 handy sed commands for Linux

sed is a powerful and useful tool in Unix/Linux for editing the content (files) line by line, including inserts, appends, changes, and deletes. Furthermore, it supports regular expressions, so it can match complex patterns. Commonly it is used to find and replace the strings in files like configuration files, bash scripts, SQL files, etc. The […]

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How to Install and Use Wget on CentOS (With Examples)

wget is used to download files via the CLI. In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we’ll show you how to install and use the wget command on CentOS.
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Check Out This Universal JSON, BSON, YAML, CSV, XML Translator to ANY Format Using Templates

Hi, I’ve created a tool for transforming various input formats to any output file using templates written in GO. Key features Various input formats (json, bson, yaml, csv, xml) Flexible output formatting using text templates Support for Lua custom functions which allows very flexible data manipulation stdin/stdout support which allows get data from source -> translate -> delivery […]

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Top 9 Features in the Newly Released Zorin OS 16

Zorin OS 16 is a Visual Spectacle! But there are also new features other than the visual changes. Check out what’s new in this release.
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Run Ubuntu Alongside Windows in Dual-Boot

This tutorial will guide you on how you can perform the installation of Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 18.10, or Ubuntu 18.04 in dual-boot with a Microsoft operating system on machines that come pre-installed with Windows 10.
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27 Best IDEs for C/C++ Programming or Source Code Editors on Linux

C++, an extension of well known C language, is an excellent, powerful and general-purpose programming language that offers modern and generic programming features for developing large-scale applications ranging from video games, search engines, other c…

A Privacy Review of Tribler, the Onion-Routed BitTorrent App

Tribler is a free and open-source file-sharing app for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It adds something unique to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol: onion routing. Onion routing, best known from the Tor Browser project, is a network routing scheme that relays connections via multiple proxies. Tribler encrypts your connections in layers so that each relay proxy […]

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How to Install Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu/Debian

Tomcat is an open-source web server for Java-based web applications. It is used in development with Spring and JSP. In this guide, you will learn how to install and configure Tomcat version 9 on Ubuntu, Debian, or any of their derivatives. Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server, allowing you to execute Java code. It […]

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How to Do Screencasts in Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install 3 different tools to do screencasts in Ubuntu 20.04. The tools covered in this article are the built-in GNOME screencast tool, the Kazam app, and the OBS Studio screencast tool.
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Silver Searcher – A Code Searching Tool Similar to Ack

The Silver Searcher is a reputable command line code-searching tool that is attributed to be cross-platform, open-source, and free. It shares most of its functional attributes with grep’s plain-text search features. The primary difference between these…

An Investment Firm Built Its Own SIEM. Here’s How.

SIEM solutions can be expensive and difficult to manage, so one company built its own – and is pleased with the results. At last week’s Black Hat USA, NYC-based financial technology firm Two Sigma Investments took the virtual stage to outline why their existing solution didn’t cut it, the work needed to create an in-house security […]

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Earns Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 is now EAL 4+ level certified for IBM Z, Arm and x86-64 architectures, signifying compliance with the most demanding security requirements for mission-critical infrastructure.
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