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Last year, I took a look at a new Linux distro called Archcraft OS on camera. I trashed Archcraft on that video due to it being virtually unusable due to some insanely small font sizes that caused me pain just looking at it. Well, Archcraft has recently had a new release with a lot of…
Everyone knows that if you’ve got big data, you need Apache Hadoop, right? It’s an affordable, horizontally scalable, clustered data processing platform ideal for data warehousing use cases. And it knocks the socks off classic relational database management systems like PostgreSQL that can barely keep up when playing with a terabyte of data, let alone…
I love trying out alternatives to mainstream software, services and social networks. Three alternative platforms that I’ve been using for awhile are Gemini, Mastodon and Odysee. I often get questions about these alternatives, such as “Hey DT, do you still like Gemini?” or “Has your opinions on Mastodon changed?” WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ?…
We (the Ubuntu Community team) are delighted to invite you to the UbuntuOnAir YouTube and Twitch channels! These particular airwaves will hold community-focused Indabas, office hours, highly requested community interviews and will deliver Ubuntu/Open Source related workshops, host special events, and, hopefully, yes, play games. You can go over there right now to see what…
The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. This iteration we took a week to go through the roadmap items and plan them across the next six months. Here are some of the highlights from the remaining week from this iteration. Meet the team…
We are proud to announce that Ubuntu 21.04 includes support for the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. This has been a long time coming. We know. With support for the camera modules and Bluetooth added last year GPIO was the obvious next step. But with our Raspberry Pi focused engineers working to make sure…
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Ubuntu in the wild What is the…
Vimium is a browser extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the Vim editor. It helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse. Vimium uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links. REFERENCED: ? https://vimium.github.io/ ? https://github.com/philc/vimium/blob/master/README.md WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube ?…
Daemons work hard so you don’t have to. Imagine that you are writing an article, Web page, or book, Your intent is to do just that – write. It’s rather nice not having to manually start printer and network services and then monitor them all day to make sure that they are working right. We…
If you have just installed Fedora and now wants to install your favorite video player VLC on it, you probably won’t find it in the software center. Not immediately, at least. For reasons best known to their developers, Fedora neither ship with VLC nor does it include in the official Fedora repository. So, how do…
May 27th will be Canonical’s first time as a DockerCon sponsor. That’s exciting! Since our joint announcement back in November, the relationship between Canonical and Docker has become stronger as more projects arise. There’s still a lot to be done in a cloud-native world to make Open Source available to everyone in its purest form….
Have you ever wished that you could freeze your Linux desktop screen and draw anything on it? Or, you may want to point out or highlight a part of your app or desktop to someone else while screen recording on Linux? If so, Gromit-MPX is an easy-to-use on-screen annotation tool that you could use right…
Brief: This tutorial goes over setting up XRDP on Ubuntu, which will allow for GUI connections to a remote computer. Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a protocol that allows for graphical remote desktop connections from one computer to another. RDP works by having a main machine run software that allows several other computers to…
Sometimes, I ramble on for long periods of time in front of the camera. Today’s video is a great example of this. I read a viewer email that asks several important questions regarding transitioning from “noob” to “power user”, if distros matter, and if desktop environments matter. WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube…
Recently, CentOS was killed, which existed as a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). You will still find the availability of CentOS Linux 8 and 7 but their support will end at the end of 2021 and 2024 (maintenance updates) respectively. CentOS Stream will completely replace CentOS Linux as we know it. But, what…
This is Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa full install guide. I install Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa using real PC. 1. Download, verify and create USB install media. 2. Boot and install Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa. 3. Upgrade new Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa installation. Watch More Videos and Subscribe to if-not-true-then-false.com Youtube Channel
In this boomer vlog, I go a lengthy rant about why working at home sucks and why I’ve recently rented an office for creating video content. I first started looking for some office space last summer, but a series of natural disasters derailed those plans until now. WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube…
Passwords: Am i a joke to you? Big thanks to ITPro.TV for sponsoring this video. In future videos, Daniel will show us additional tools. Menu: It’s not my fault! 0:00 David – you’re dumb and other YouTube comments: 0:49 John quick demo: 1:16 Daniel’s favourite hacking tools: 2:50 Script kiddie demo: 4:03 Shadow file: 4:38…
In this somewhat off-topic rant, I ramble on about the recent crash of crypto prices and some of the lessons that can be learned. I especially talk about content creators that depend heavily on crypto donations. 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 ?? Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi ? Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube DONATE CRYPTO:…
In this post we’ll explore the concepts of data lake, data hub and data lab. There are many opinions and interpretations of these concepts, and they are broadly comparable. In fact, many might say they’re synonymous and we’re just splitting hairs. But let’s look again carefully. We can discern some subtle trends in the way…