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ID Root ☛ How To Install Netdata on Debian 13
Monitoring your Debian 13 server’s performance doesn’t have to be complicated. Netdata transforms system monitoring into an effortless experience with real-time metrics, stunning visualizations, and zero-configuration dashboards. This comprehensive guide walks you through every step of installing and configuring Netdata on Debian 13, from initial setup to advanced security configurations.
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ID Root ☛ How To Install Ansible on Debian 13
Ansible has revolutionized the way system administrators and DevOps engineers manage infrastructure. This powerful automation tool eliminates repetitive tasks and brings consistency to server configuration management. If you’re running Debian 13 (Trixie), you’re in the right place to learn how to install and configure Ansible on your system.
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ID Root ☛ How To Install Pandas on Fedora 43
Pandas stands as one of the most powerful Python libraries for data analysis, manipulation, and scientific computing. Whether you’re a data scientist analyzing large datasets, a developer building data-driven applications, or a researcher working with structured information, installing Pandas correctly on Fedora 43 is your first step toward productive Python development.
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ZDNet ☛ How much RAM does your Linux PC actually need in 2025? An expert weighs in
I'm not going to start this with a "back in the day" because it's too easy and obvious. Besides, it's time to live in the now, and today's rules and needs are not the same as they were 10, 20, or 30 years ago.
Modern Linux is powerful, flexible, stable, and secure. With the exception of some of the more lightweight Linux distributions, it's also far more resource-dependent (just like all modern operating systems).
Consider this: The minimum system requirements for Ubuntu Desktop today include just 4GB of RAM. I've run Ubuntu on a virtual machine with only 3GB of RAM. Although those Ubuntu virtual machines are used only for testing purposes, the 3GB of RAM does pretty well. But I would never suggest you should get by with such a small amount.
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PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ Tip Top Tips: Autofs For NFS Shares
The difficulty in unmounting NFS shares in Dolphin has been bugging me for more than a year now. I had many failures trying to make it easy for me.
The difficulty is that the mounts, via Dolphin (and I expect other file managers), are done in kernel space and not user space, and the user is not granted permission to unmount those mounts. So to unmount the share, root permissions are required.
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PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ GIMP Tutorial: Make An Image Seem To Fly Apart
This is an oldie, but we haven’t done it, so I thought it would be fun. I saw it on LittleWebHut.com. It makes your image look like pieces of it are flying away.
Load your image and add an Alpha Channel. Your image needs to have a transparent background, so if it has anything else, you’ll need to remove the background. We did an article in May, 2021, and another in July, 2021 about removing backgrounds, so feel free to use one of them. I already did this to my image…