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2DayGeek: In this guide, we'll show you how to install essential Multimedia Codecs on Linux, which are necessary to play encrypted (proprietary) media formats.

Sort is a Linux program used for printing lines of input text files and concatenation of all files in sorted order. Sort command takes blank space as field separator and entire Input file as sort key. It is important to notice that sort command don’t actually sort the files but only print the sorted output, until your redirect the output.

The Freenode controversy has resulted in what we consider to be disproportionate response, which likely necessitates further mediation for an amicable resolution; please do not participate in the anti-Freenode (warped into anti-Lee) rally as it harms Free software more than it helps it

If you are a Linux user and looking for the best PowerPoint alternative (either desktop or web-based), you have come to the right place. In this article, you will find a brief overview of some interesting presentation applications that can be natively installed on a Linux distribution or used online via the browser.

There have been many life-changing Linux moments for me, but most fade into my backstory as they become the status quo. There's one little keyboard trick Linux taught me that I'm reminded of every time I use it (maybe 1,000 times a day), and that's converting the Caps Lock key to Ctrl.

This is the ninth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.8 was first released in 2019, and two years later, many of its cool new features remain underused. Here are three of them.

German based Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers launched today the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Linux laptop with 16:10 "Omnia" 3K display and powerful components.

makedeb, mpm and makedeb-db is a set of tools that allows you to convert Arch Linux PKGBUILD files to DEB packages and install them using APT on Debian / Ubuntu and Linux distributions based on these.

So, you just decided to switch to using a Linux distro and you’ve come to the decision that Ubuntu is the one for you. But while you were doing your research you came across tags like Ubuntu flavours and derivatives – “what are the differences?” you ask. Also, why are there so many versions, and what is the alpha-beta-LTS business all about?

Many of us own old computers, and old computers need low resources-constrained GUI’s to be used on them. In this article, we are going to talk about 5 lightweight desktop environments to install on your old computer to revive it again.

In this article, I will give you a short explanation of what the value null or the null device means in the computing world.

procs is a modern replacement for ps written in Rust. Compared to ps, it comes with colored and human-readable output, additional information like TCP/UDP port, read/write throughput, more memory information and Docker container name, and more.

For decades, enterprises have developed business-critical applications on various platforms, including physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud environments. The one thing these applications have in common across industries is they need to be continuously available (24x7x365) to guarantee stability, reliability, and performance, regardless of demand. Therefore, every enterprise must be responsible for the high costs of maintaining an infrastructure (e.g., CPU, memory, disk, networking, etc.) even if actual resource utilization is less than 50%. read more

Ubuntu’s flagship operating system is hardly a thing of a novelty since we had been anticipating its release for a good while. In April 2020, Canonical officially announced the release of the next iteration of its Ubuntu operating system which is the long-term support 20.04 (Focal Fossa).

Introducing six (possibly) unfamiliar commands that you need to know.

Canonical released a new Linux kernel live patch for its long-term supported Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system series to address a single security vulnerability.

SSH (Secure SHELL) is an open-source and most trusted network protocol that is used to login to remote servers for the execution of commands and programs. It is also used to transfer files from one computer to another computer over the network using a secure copy (SCP) Protocol.

Tripwire is a free and open-source Linux Intrusion Detection System. It is used to detect and report any unauthorized change in files and directories on Linux. In this post, we will show you how to install and configure Tripwire on Debian 10.

Sqlite, the default database for Ruby on Rails, may not be sufficient for your Rails application. This guide explains how to use MySQL with Ruby on Rails application in Linux.

Businesses run the gamut of policy extremes when it comes to graphical tools. Where are you on the graphical tools continuum?