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As the needs of users who use various programs on their devices becomes increasingly complex, the programs themselves are also needing to follow suit to keep up with the demand that users are wanting and expecting. Something that I find I need on a daily basis is an easy way to be able to stay…
by Suparna Ganguly Want to know the tricks of replacing a variable in a file using the SED command? This article will give you an overview of replacing a variable value in a file using SED. Before replacing a variable in a file using SED, you need to understand what SED is, the syntax of…
You have some ideas about installing packages in Ubuntu with apt command. Those packages come from Ubuntu’s repositories. How about third-party or external repository? No, I am not talking about PPA here. Sooner or later, you’ll come across installation instructions that goes in at least four lines. You install something called ‘apt-transport-https’ and then do…
It’s been a couple of months since we restarted UbuntuOnAir. We had a few ideas, and lots of aspirations, but we wanted to be realistic and work our way up. You can read about why we brought it back and why we didn’t use the more mainstream channel “Celebrate Ubuntu” elsewhere. Here I talk about…
Clicked too many similar photos? Have saved the same photo in different folders? I know that feel. You click photos on camera, send it through WhatsApp. Now you back up the images and you have two copies of the photos from the gallery and WhatsApp. It is annoying, cluttered and takes extra space unnecessarily. I…
On Windows, Microsoft provides a free cloud storage service in the form of OneDrive. It comes integrated with Windows and you get 5 GB of free storage with your Microsoft account. This works great on Windows but like Google, Microsoft also does not provide a native client for OneDrive on Linux desktop. You can access…
The end-to-end monitoring of complex software systems is difficult, toil-intensive and error-prone. Developers, SREs and Platform teams must continuously invest effort in setting up and maintaining the monitoring setups that underpin the observability of their systems, or accept the risk of being unaware of ongoing issues and their impact on end users. Enter model-driven observability…
Today’s video upload marks the 1,000th video posted to YouTube. Making video content for the last four years has really been a blessing. I’ve learned a lot along the way. I’ve met a lot of great people. And hopefully, I’ve made some small difference in the lives of others. This video is a look back…
Debian has three different branches: (1) stable, (2) testing and (3) unstable. The unstable branch “Sid” is a rolling release distribution similar to something like Arch Linux. You get the latest and greatest packages, unlike the standard “stable” edition of Debian, which can have very old packages. REFERENCED: ? https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable ? https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/ – Daily image…
It is important for Linux users to be comfortable using a terminal-based text editor like GNU Nano or Vim, because sometimes you are going to have to edit configuration files without being in a graphical environment. But which terminal text editor is the right one for you? REFERENCED: ? https://www.nano-editor.org/ – GNU Nano ? https://www.vim.org/…
Web browsers have evolved over the years. From downloading files to accessing a full-fledged web application, we have come a long way. For a lot of users, the web browser is the only thing they need to get their work done these days. Hence, choosing the right browser becomes an important task that could help…
What is Kubeflow? Kubeflow is the open-source machine learning toolkit on top of Kubernetes. Kubeflow translates steps in your data science workflow into Kubernetes jobs, providing the cloud-native interface for your ML libraries, frameworks, pipelines and notebooks. Read more about Kubeflow Notebooks in Kubeflow Within the Kubeflow dashboard, data scientists can spin up notebook servers…
by Suparna Ganguly Do you want to create a Shell script in your Linux system? This guide will take you through how to create a shell script using multiple text editors, how to add comments, and how to use Shell variables. But before heading over to creating a shell script, let’s understand what Shell scripting…
In the early days of the Internet, there were certain rules that everyone was expected to follow in online forums, web chat and usenet newsgroups. These rules were called “netiquette” and it is something that is sorely lacking in how people interact online today. WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube ? Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=derek%40distrotube%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=DistroTube&no_note=0¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest…
This is the first article in a two-article series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140 applications on Ubuntu while the second part, will be covering the development of FIPS applications on Ubuntu. What is FIPS and why do I need it? Even though cryptography…
In this tutorial, I will show you how I created simple graphics in GIMP, how I animate graphics and text in Kdenlive. GIMP is a free and open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop; and Kdenlive is a free and open source video editor that is quite powerful. Want the T-shirt I was wearing in this…
Every Linux distribution comes with a document viewer app that lets you read PDF and other documents. Most of the time, it is Evince from GNOME that is displayed as Document Viewer in Ubuntu and some other distributions. Evince is a handy tool and supports a wide variety of document formats. However, there are other…
I often get asked which Linux distribution is my favorite. My answer is usually one of two responses: (a) I don’t have a favorite, or (b) it’s the distro that I’m currently running. Well, if it’s the latter then my favorite distro has been Arco Linux for the last two years. REFERENCED: ? https://arcolinux.com/ WANT…
So many people say that Linux doesn’t have “professional” grade software. I dsagree. I’ve been playing around with different animations and effects for my videos, exploring some of the more advanced options in great free and open source tools like Gimp, Kdenlive and OBS. WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube ? Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=derek%40distrotube%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=DistroTube&no_note=0¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest…
June was packed with interesting news. So this monthly blog won’t disappoint our readers. If you haven’t seen it already, we are running a content survey. It will take you 7 minutes to complete and it will help us create the content that you want to read. So if you haven’t done it yet, here…