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What Does Chmod 777 Mean in Linux: Explaining File Permissions Model | Beebom
The chmod 777 command is often suggested as the solution to quickly fix permission issues while managing web servers in Linux. Now, you might be wondering what does chmod 777 mean in Linux? Well, to give you a basic primer, it grants all the permissions, including sensitive ones, to a file or directory. That being said, there is more to it, so we recommend reading all about the chmod 777 command right below. On that note, let’s move to the article.
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Learn Linux Dir Command Examples with Options
This article shows some examples of using the dir command to list the contents of a directory. The dir command is not a commonly used command in Linux, but it works less like the ls command which most Linux users prefer to use.
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Creating Directory In HDFS And Copy Files (Hadoop) - TecAdmin
HDFS is the Hadoop Distributed File System. It’s a distributed storage system for large data sets which supports fault tolerance, high throughput, and scalability. It works by dividing data into blocks that are replicated across multiple machines in a cluster. The blocks can be written to or read from in parallel, facilitating high throughput and fault tolerance. HDFS provides RAID-like redundancy with automatic failover. HDFS also supports compression, replication, and encryption.
The most common use case for HDFS is storing large collections of data such as image and video files, logs, sensor data, and so on.
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How to View AVIF Images in Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros
PNGs are the best when it comes to quality but they are huge in size and hence not ideal for websites.
JPEGs reduce the file size but they reduce the quality of the images significantly.
WebP is a relatively newer format that produces better-quality images with significantly smaller sizes.
Now, AVIF is a new file format that compresses images without sacrificing quality. They are smaller than WebP for the same image quality.
Linux has started providing WebP support recently. However, AVIF image format is not yet supported by default in many distributions.
If you download an image in AVIF format from the web, it won’t display the thumbnail.
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How To Install LAMP Stack on Linux Mint 21 - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LAMP Stack on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, LAMP is a short name that stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Developers need a combination of these open-source software to do developments on their local machines before their websites go live. Apache is a web server, MySQL is for databases and PHP is the language used for programming. From multi-layered content management systems to social networking portals supporting millions of users, the LAMP provides a stable foundation for some of the largest web applications
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 LAMP Stack on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).