today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 01, 2023

• How to Create Colorful ASCII Arts in Your Linux Terminal With draw

  Paint programs have been an essential part of the computer experience for decades—giving you a creative outlet for doodles, as well as a way of sketching ideas, drawing portraits, and expressing your artistic appreciation for the world outside your window.

  Typically, you'll need a machine with an X server to express your digital soul on a virtual canvas, but with draw, you can sketch colorful drawings without leaving your terminal.

• How to install GitFiend on Linux

  GitFiend is an easy-to-use, simple Git client for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. It is designed for “Humans,” and has tons of useful features. Here’s how you can install GitFiend on Linux.

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  If you use Ubuntu, you must install the GitFiend application on your system via their downloadable DEB package. To get your hands on this DEB package, start by launching a terminal window.

  You can launch a terminal window on Ubuntu by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or, by searching for “Terminal” in the app menu and launching it that way. Once the terminal app is open, use the wget command to download the DEB package.

• Enrico Zini: Things I learnt in March 2023

  • str.endswith() can take a tuple of possible endings instead of a single string

  About JACK and Debian

  • There are 3 JACK implementations: jackd1, jackd2, pipewire-jack.
  • jackd1 is mostly superseded in favour of jackd2, and as far as I understand, can be ignored
  • pipewire-jack integrates well with pipewire and the rest of the Linux audio world
  • jackd2 is the native JACK server. When started it handles the sound card directly, and will steal it from pipewire. Non-JACK audio applications will likely cease to see the sound card until JACK is stopped and wireplumber is restarted. Pipewire should be able to keep [working as a JACK client[(https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/JACK) but I haven't gone down that route yet [...]

• How To Install Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA) In XCP-ng Server

  In this guide, we will discuss what is Xen Orchestra (XO), how to install Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA), how to access Xen Orchestra Web UI, and finally how to connect to XOA via SSH.

• How To Setup Kube State Metrics on Kubernetes

  In this article, we will learn what kube-state-metricsis, the importance of enabling kube-state-metrics in your cluster, some of its use cases, and how to implement it in your cluster.

• How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 9

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Suricata on Rocky Linux 9. Are you looking for a network intrusion detection and prevention system that is both powerful and easy to use? Look no further than Suricata!

• How To Remove Users on Linux: A Step-by-Step Guide

  Linux is known for its security and flexibility, but it also requires some basic knowledge to manage users and groups on the system.

• How To Install FreeIPA on Rocky Linux 9

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreeIPA on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, FreeIPA is the ultimate open-source solution for identity, policy, and audit management.

• Fixing Mount Point Does Not Exist Error in Linux

  Learn how to troubleshoot and fix the 'mount point does not exist' error in Linux with our step-by-step guide.