today's howtos
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How to Install Wireshark on Fedora 37/36/35
Wireshark is a powerful and popular network communication tool that allows viewing individual recorded data packets or sorting them according to specific content. This networking software lets you see what’s going on on your computer and helps easily take apart any encrypted messages being sent around it through analysis of their contents. Examples include troubleshooting networks with performance issues and cybersecurity tracing connecting, viewing contents of suspect network transactions, and identifying bursts of network traffic for further analysis.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install WireShark on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux using the command line terminal and how to configure and launch the application so you can begin monitoring your system.
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How to install nmon to monitor Linux
. In this post, you will learn how to install nmon on Linux. With this tool, you will be able to monitor a Linux system quickly.
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux on POWER, x86, x86_64, Mainframe & now ARM (Raspberry Pi)
Thanks to nmon, You can display the CPU, memory, network, disks (mini graphs or numbers), file systems, NFS, top processes, resources (Linux version & processors) and on Power micro-partition information.
Another important feature of nmon is that you can save the generated information for later analysis. In this way, you will have an extra help to determine better solutions to problems originating from the server.
Easy to use, open source and powerful are some to describe nmon.
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How to Install Nginx Mainline on Ubuntu 22.10/22.04/20.04
For Ubuntu users, the default repository for Nginx might not install the latest version. However, for most users, this is satisfactory. Meanwhile, many users who seek performance and to keep up with the latest security, bug, and performance would look at installing the Nginx mainline.
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Using the File Tagging Feature in KDE’s Dolphin File Manager
Dolphin is the default file manager of the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment. It is considered as one of the most comprehensive and feature-rich file managers available for Linux distributions.
Yes. It has tons of features and you may not be aware of all of them. One such feature is file tagging.
File tagging is a way of organizing files or folder by applying tags to them. This tag can then be used to search for data, and sort the files accordingly. With this feature, you can tag files into categories irrespective of their location. This gives you a new way to organize your files.
While there are dedicated tools like Tagspaces for this purpose, this feature comes baked into KDE’s Dolphin file manager.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the file tagging feature in Dolphin.
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How to Install FFmpeg on Fedora 37/36/35
Anyone who has worked with audio or video knows that file format compatibility can be a significant headache. FFmpeg is a powerful tool that can help to solve this problem by decoding, encoding, and transcoding multimedia files. In addition to supporting a wide range of file formats, FFmpeg also supports several different codecs making it an ideal tool for transcoding files between multiple formats or encoding files for use with specific devices or platforms. With FFmpeg, you can easily convert your files into the format you need without worrying about compatibility issues.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install FFmpeg on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux using the command line terminal with the default Fedora repository. Given Fedora is a six monthly release and focuses on pushing the latest packages as best as possible, you should ideally need to install any third-party repository or manually the framework. Lastly, the tutorial will run through some common FFmpeg command examples.