today's howtos
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How To Install Neovim on Linux Mint 21 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Neovim on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim such as improving the codebase, allowing for easier implementation of APIs, improved user experience, and plugin implementation.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a Neovim text editor on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
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How Much Space Does Ubuntu Require?
Ubuntu is one of the widely used Linux distributions as it is properly being managed by Canonical. Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu every six months and each update of Ubuntu comes with new features and improvements. And every update needs some space from your hard drive. So, it is better to have a rough estimate of how much space Ubuntu requires with its all-upcoming updates.
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How to Disable 'su' Access for Sudo Users in Linux - TREND OCEANS
The su (aka substitute user) command is used by Linux users to transition from the current user to another user or super user (root account) without changing the current working directory or user environment.
A standard user with sudo access has extra privileges while using the su command. For instance, if a user with sudo access uses the su command to try to switch to the root account, they are required to supply their own password.
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How to Check Crontab logs in Linux
As a Linux user, you are probably already familiar with crontab. You can automate tasks by running commands and scripts at a predefined schedule. Want to automatically take backups? Crontab is your friend.
I am not going into the usage of crontab here. My focus is on showing you the different ways to check crontab logs.
It helps investigate whether your cronjobs ran as scheduled or not.
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JBoss EAP on Podman
JBoss EAP is an open-source platform for highly transactional, web-scale Java applications. JBoss EAP combines the familiar and popular Jakarta EE specifications with the latest technologies, like Eclipse MicroProfile, to modernize your applications from traditional Java EE into the new world of DevOps, cloud, containers, and microservices.
JBoss EAP includes everything needed to build, run, deploy, and manage enterprise Java applications in various environments, including on-premise, virtual, private, public, and hybrid clouds. JBoss EAP is based upon the popular open-source project WildFly.
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[Older] Initial Steps to Secure Rocky Linux 8
Rocky Linux is a downstream, binary-compatible Linux distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It was founded by a co-founder of CentOS Linux after Red Hat announced that CentOS will no longer be developed in its current format. I wrote this article back in May of this year for Vultr to show how to improve the security posture of a Rocky Linux 8 server.
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[Older] How To Install Cassandra and Run a Multi-Node Cluster on Ubuntu 22.04
Apache Cassandra is an open-source, masterless, and distributed NoSQL database system. Cassandra is suited for mission-critical applications and multi-node setups because it’s scalable, elastic, and fault-tolerant. Cassandra database management works through a node system, and nodes are held within a cluster.
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How to install Appwrite with Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 & Debian 9
In this post, you will learn How to install Appwrite with Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 & Debian 9
Appwrite is a free, open-source back-end server that offers main APIs required to develop and build applications bundled together as a set of easy-to-use Docker Containers. It offers a simple yet modern user-friendly interface that can be used to keep a track of APIs, Users, Resources and other more. It allows you to run your backend code in a secure environment to easily customize your app. It also has GEO & Localization features and fetch GEO data according to the users.
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How to Install Universal Media Server in Ubuntu Linux
Universal Media Server (UMS) is a cross-platform and free DLNA-compliant, HTTP(s) PnP Media server, which provides a number of capabilities such as sharing multimedia files such as images, videos, and audio between modern devices such as game consoles, smart TVs, Blu-ray players, Roku devices, and smartphones. UMS was originally based on a PS3 Media Server in order to ensure greater stability and file compatibility.
UMS streams a wide range of media formats with little or absolutely no configuration. It is powered by a number of multimedia tools such as VLC media player, FFmpeg, AviSynth, MEncoder, tsMuxeR, MediaInfo, and many more.
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How to Install Gedit on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install Gedit on Ubuntu systems
gedit is the default text editor of the GNOME desktop environment and part of the GNOME Core Applications. Designed as a general-purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use, with a clean and simple GUI, according to the philosophy of the GNOME project. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.
It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
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[Older] How To Set Up Shiny Server on Ubuntu 20.04
While many people turn to the open-source programming language R for statistical and graphics applications, Shiny is an R package that allows you to convert your R code into interactive webpages. With Shiny, you can use Shiny Server (available in both a free, open-source format and a paid, professional format) to host and manage Shiny applications and interactive R markdown documents.
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[Older] How To Set Up MinIO Object Storage Server in Standalone Mode on Ubuntu 20.04
The ability to store unstructured blobs of object data and make them accessible through HTTP APIs, known as object storage, is integral to the modern technology landscape, especially with cloud-based backup solutions and high-availability content delivery networks (CDNs).
MinIO is an open-source object storage server compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Applications configured to interface with Amazon S3 can also be configured to interface with MinIO, which means you can use MinIO as a viable alternative to S3 for more control over your object storage server. The service stores unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups, and container/VM images and can provide a single object storage server that pools multiple drives spread across many servers.
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How to install Ionic Framework on Ubuntu & Debian Servers
In this post, you will learn How to install Ionic Framework on Ubuntu & Debian Servers
Ionic Framework is an open-source, cross-platform mobile development framework that can be used to initiate, develop and maintain Vue, React, Angular etc application easily on compatible system. It uses web core technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript for development. Ionic is designed to work beautifully on all current platforms and mobile devices. It uses NodsJS as it backend. It is a pretty straight-forward application which uses a command-line utility.
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[Older] How To Install Cassandra and Run a Single-Node Cluster on Ubuntu 22.04
Apache Cassandra is an open-source, masterless, and distributed NoSQL database system. Cassandra is considered highly suited for mission-critical applications and multi-node setups because it’s scalable, elastic, and fault-tolerant. Cassandra database management works through a node system, and nodes are held within a cluster.
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How To Play Epic Games On Linux | IWMBuzz
With some exclusive titles and alluring deals for PC players, Epic Games Store is attracting more attention than ever. While the Epic Games Store (or EGS) has a better client, I still prefer Steam because it is officially supported on Linux and runs without any hacks. Unfortunately, Steam does not have titles like Immortals Fenix Rising and Kena: Bridge of Spirits. Even while some titles, like Hitman 3, are timed exclusives, the Epic Games Store still boasts a wide selection of fun games.