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Linux uniq command Explained
In some scenarios, files might contain several duplicate lines. It becomes extremely hard to view those repeated neighboring lines in a file. In Linux, the uniq command detect repeated lines, reports or removes the duplicated lines, and writes the filtered data to a file or standard output.
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How to install and configure AfterStep window manager on Ubuntu | ZDNET
In a recent article on cool things you can do with the Linux desktop that you can't do with MacOS or Windows, I mentioned a few of the many Linux desktops I've used over the years. One of those desktops (actually, a window manager) was instrumental in helping me to realize just how cool Linux is.
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Diskless Clients on Centos - Unix / Linux the admins Tutorials
This document explains how to create a diskless clients installation of CentOS 7.
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How to Install Avidemux on Ubuntu 20.04 |22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install Avidemux in Ubuntu systems.
Avidemux is a free and open-source software application for non-linear video editing and transcoding multimedia files. The developers intend it as “a simple tool for simple video processing tasks” and to allow users “to do elementary things in a very straightforward way”. It is written in C++ and uses Qt for its graphical user interface, and FFmpeg for its multimedia functions. Starting with version 2.4, Avidemux also offers a command-line interface, and since version 2.6, the original GTK port has not been maintained and is now discontinued.
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How to Install Curtail on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install Curtail in Ubuntu systems.
Curtail is an open source image compression tool for Linux desktops, written in Python. It makes use of the open source OptiPNG, pngquant, and Jpegoptim libraries to “do” the compression, and a GTK GUI providing an attractive, easy-to-use frontend.
When you need to compress PNG, JPG, and WEBP images quickly and in bulk on Ubuntu you can use Curtail. It’s super easy to use.
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How to Install Geany on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install Geany on your Ubuntu systems
Geany is a free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK, including basic IDE features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. It has been ported to a wide range of operating systems, such as BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows. The Windows port lacks an embedded terminal window; also missing from the Windows version are the external development tools present under Unix, unless installed separately by the user. Among the supported programming languages.
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How to Install TeXworks on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install TeXworks in Ubuntu systems.
TeXworks is free and open-source application software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions. TeXworks is targeted at direct generation of PDF output. It has a built-in PDF viewer using the poppler library; the viewer has auto-refresh capability, and also features SyncTeX support (which allows the user to synchronize the PDF viewer position with the source, and vice versa with a single click).
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How to Install TimeShift on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install TimeShift in Ubuntu systems.
Timeshift is software that provides a function similar to System Restore on Windows or Time machine on macOS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at an specific date to undo all changes to the system.