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by Ares Lee The LVM is a powerful storage management module which is included in all the distributions of Linux now. It provides users with a variety of valuable features to fit different requirements. The management tools that come with LVM are based on the command line interface, which is very powerful and suitable for…
Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change because users reported desktop snaps starting more slowly than the same applications distributed via traditional, native Linux packaging formats like Deb or RPM. After a thorough investigation, we pinpointed the compression…
Brief: A dead simple font manager app that lets you focus on tweaking the fonts on your Linux system. If you are an experienced Linux user, you might be utilizing the terminal or the tweak tool to manage fonts on your Linux system. Honestly, no matter how useful the GNOME tweak tool is — it…
Many VirtualBox users have experienced at least once the message ‘FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.‘ Sometimes it is also shown ‘No Bootable Medium Found! System halted‘. This error is more common when trying to start a new virtual machine, but it is not impossible to happen at an existing virtual…
Just a quick video this week on an issue I’ve only recently solved for myself. How to improve your laptop’s battery life when you are running Linux. Links:Powertop Diagnostic tool: https://01.org/powertopTLP: https://linrunner.de/tlp/introduction.html#how-it-worksGUI for TLP: https://github.com/d4nj1/TLPUIAuto-cpufreq: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq Read moreKali Linux 2019.1 Release | Kali Linux BlogDonate here…thanks: http://bit.ly/MOO4KGSign up to Dropbox: https://db.tt/Qg1VIS9TFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ingalacticBlog: http://infinitelygalactic.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ingalactic
Open source MANO (OSM) community recently added two more bricks in the wall of NFV orchestration events: OSM Release NINE and OSM#10 Hackfest. The community has come a long way to mature OSM into its 9th version. A toast to all the system integrators, network operators, researchers, and VNF vendors who have hit the home…
Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Think Ubuntu- the most popular Linux distribution on public clouds, data centre and the edge. Since its inception, Ubuntu consistently gains market share, as of today reaching almost 50%. Wondering why Ubuntu is so popular? Read moreKali Linux 2019.1 Release | Kali Linux BlogHere…
2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different times and maybe more than ever we saw how important it was to stay connected. Therefore, Canonical continued to innovate in the telco world and brought Ubuntu closer to…
This beginner article explains how to install RPM packages on Fedora and Red Hat Linux. It also shows you how to remove those RPM packages afterwards. When you start using Fedora Linux in the Red Hat domain, sooner or later, you’ll come across .rpm files. Like .exe files in Windows and .deb files in Ubuntu…
by Antonio Riso Introduction When spending most of your day around bash shell, it is not uncommon to waste time typing the same commands over and over again. This is pretty close to the definition of insanity. Luckily, bash gives us several ways to avoid repetition and increase productivity. Today, we will explore the tools…
It’s re:invent season already, and we had exciting news to announce with Amazon this year. With all these remote sessions, what’s better than a quick lab to play with the new stuff? It’s starting to feel like Christmas already! We’re going to kill two birds with one stone (just an idiom, keep reading) and experiment…
We’re almost there, 2021 is just around the corner. Like many others, we at Canonical have a deep appreciation for all things Raspberry Pi. We see the good they do and the joy they bring and can’t help but be impressed. This year marks the beginning of a stronger collaboration between the folks at Raspberry…
Brief: Radicle is an open-source project that aims to facilitate peer-to-peer code collaboration without depending on a centralized server. In other words, it’s a P2P alternative to GitHub. Most of the open-source projects that we talk about are usually hosted at GitHub or other GitHub alternatives like GitLab. Even though you get many benefits and…
CentOS is one of the most popular server distributions in the world. It is an open source fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and provides the goodness of RHEL without the cost associated with RHEL. However, things have changed recently. Red Hat is converting a stable CentOS to a rolling release model in the…
Many Arch-based Linux distributions have mushroomed lately. I am pretty much satisfied with Manjaro and Arch Linux, so I couldn’t care less until I came across Garuda Linux. This beautiful Linux distribution shows some promises. Garuda Linux is fairly new to the Linux world and is aiming to provide the greatest performance, offering all the…
This is guide, howto install NVIDIA Container Toolkit with Docker >= 20.10 on Fedora 33. Check video to see also howto install latest Docker Engine 20.10 (docker-ce) on Fedora 33. Same method works with Podman, but it will cause strange SELinux problems even with custom generated policy installed. So package still requires Docker 20.10 or…
This quick tutorial shows the steps to get a newer version of Mesa drivers on Ubuntu, be it stable release or cutting-edge development release. What is Mesa? Mesa itself is not a graphics card like Nvidia or AMD. Instead, it provides open source software implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and some other graphics API specifications for…
It is often the little interactions with a desktop environment that makes up for a good user experience and task switcher is something that most of the users fiddle with. I’ve recently about customizing the task switching experience on GNOME but what about the most customizable desktop environment, KDE? Fret not, it isn’t rocket science…
Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a brief overview of the new features and fixes. Later on in this post, we’ll cover some of these features in much more detail. New features &…
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping build, support and advocate for the most popular Linux desktop, and most used Linux distribution in the cloud. Over those years, we’ve strived to make it easy for…