Do you feel that the default launcher of your distro isn’t what you need? If yes, you should definitely read this article on Ulauncher. If no, let me know if I changed your mind by the end of this article in the comments section. Let’s start by installing ULauncher so that you can get the …
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While updating or installing packages using apt, apt-get, aptitude, or dpkg, you might get an error saying ‘unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock‘ or a similar error related to locks. This error is generated when the system is unable to acquire the required permissions to install or upgrade programs. In this article, we will …
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In this article, we will be looking at 10 Linux alternative Operating Systems. The obvious two would be Windows and macOS but we will look at other ones than these two. List of Linux Alternative Operating Systems When it comes to open-source Operating Systems, Linux would be, unanimously, the most popular and widely used one. …
Learn How to install and transfer file securely. The scp command in Linux – Securely Copy Data in Linux.
In this tutorial, we will be looking at the steps to install and set up a VNC Server on a CentOS 8 machine. VNC or Virtual Network Computing is a platform-independent protocol that enables users to connect to and control a remote computer system graphically. It follows a server-client architecture. Steps to Install VNC Server …
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The screen command is a terminal multiplexer. It is similar to the Window Manager for a Desktop Environment except that it works inside the terminal. It can create sessions and split windows which are a very powerful way of doing multitasking in the terminal. Installing the screen command The screen command can be installed with …
In this tutorial, we set up our own DHCP Server on Ubuntu. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network service for automatically assigning IP Addresses to clients on a network. It follows a server-client architecture where the client requests a DHCP Server to get an IP Address. Most routers have a DHCP server built-in, …
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In this tutorial, we will look at Syslog in Linux and how to send logs to a remote machine using it. Syslog is a standard for message logging. It has been the standard logging mechanism on Linux/Unix systems for a very long time. Although most of the distros now ship with journald – a systemd …
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In this article, we’ll learn to install cmake on Linux. CMake is a cross-platform open-source meta-build system that can build, test, and package software. It can be used to support multiple native build environments including make in Linux/Unix, Apple’s Xcode, and Microsoft Visual Studio. How to Install CMake on Linux? If you are to work with …
The dd command is a utility to copy and convert files from one location to the other. Interestingly, it stands for ‘copy and convert’ but since the name cc was already taken by the C compiler, it was named ‘dd‘. Since dd interacts directly with the sectors of a disk it is a potentially dangerous …