today's howtos
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How To Install Wallabag on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Wallabag on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Wallabag is a self-hosted application that allows users to save web content for later reading.
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Daniel Berrange: make-tiny-image.py: creating tiny initrds for testing QEMU or Linux kernel/userspace behaviour
As a virtualization developer a significant amount of time is spent in understanding and debugging the behaviour and interaction of QEMU and the guest kernel/userspace code. As such my development machines have a variety of guest OS installations that get booted for various tasks. Some tasks, however, require a repeated cycle of QEMU code changes, or QEMU config changes, followed by guest testing. Waiting for an OS to boot can quickly become a significant time sink affecting productivity and lead to frustration. What is needed is a very low overhead way to accomplish simple testing tasks without an OS getting in the way.
Enter ‘make-tiny-image.py‘ tool for creating minimal initrd images.
If invoked with no arguments, this tool will create an initrd containing nothing more than busybox. The “init” program will be a script that creates a few device nodes, mounts proc/sysfs and then runs the busybox ‘sh’ binary to provide an interactive shell. This is intended to be used as follows
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How to install Linux on an old laptop
Linux has been my primary operating system since 1997. When I first started using the open-source OS, it was not easy. There was a lot of command line work to do and keeping my 33.6k modem online was a nightmare. With some serious persistence, I made it work and eventually made a career out of covering Linux and open-source software.
Back in those days, installing Linux on a laptop was something only the most skilled users could pull off. The problem was (at the time) Linux didn't have a great deal of support for things like Wi-Fi cards, sound, and video. Because of that, it was pretty hit-and-miss. You might try to install your favorite Linux distribution, only to find out it didn't support your video card. Try a different distribution that did support your video card, but not your sound card. If you were really good with the command line, you could install firmware for the hardware to get it running.
Eventually, Linux caught up to the competition until it found support for most hardware (save for maybe cutting edge graphics and some newer peripherals). Even then, the Linux community has been doing a great job of keeping pace with the likes of Windows and MacOS.
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How to Install Slack on Linux
You might have seen your team members using Slack on their Windows systems. But what if you are a Linux user and don’t want to switch to Windows just to stay connected with your team? Luckily, Slack is also available for Linux.
Whether you're using Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or any other Linux distribution, the installation process for Slack is straightforward and just requires a few simple commands. Let’s see how you can install Slack on Linux.
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fd Is a Blazingly Fast Way to Find Files on Linux
Finding files in the terminal is a pain. It's slow, and the find command requires very specific arguments to ensure you locate the file you're looking for.
fd is designed to be a simple, quick, intuitive, and easy-to-use replacement for the find command. Here's how to install and use fd on Linux.
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How to Get the Best Linux Features With Windows Apps
Even though Linux is a term that applies to many different flavors of operating system, there are a handful of features that Linux users will know well, but Windows users have to go without.
Thankfully, much like Linux, Windows leaves power in the hands of the user. Let's have a look at a handful of different features you can pull over from Linux into your own Windows system
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speedread Lets You Rapidly Assimilate Text Documents on Linux
Reading is a great way to pass the time, and a means to both expand your knowledge of the world around you and indulge in idle flights of fancy through fiction. But there are only 24 hours in a day, and there's a limit to how many words you can force your eyeballs to take in during a lunch break at work.
speedread is a terminal-based Linux app that can jack those numbers up, and help you to read faster and more efficiently than ever before.
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How to get the latest version of GCC on Debian 11
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to get the latest version of GCC in Debian 11. GCC is the compiler of the GNU project for C language, and one of the most important bases that we have on Linux.