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Introducing the Raspberry Pi 5

Introducing the Raspberry Pi 5

Web Monkey2 months ago03 mins

Title: The Benefits of Regular Exercise for Overall Well-being Regular exercise is essential for maintaining good physical and mental health. Engaging in physical activities not only helps in weight management but also improves cardiovascular health, boosts mood, and enhances cognitive functions.…

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Mastering Ubuntu: 18 Popular Commands Every User Should Know

Web Monkey7 months ago012 mins

Ubuntu, one of the most widely used Linux distributions, offers a powerful and flexible operating system for both beginners and advanced users alike. Command-line tools play a crucial role in Ubuntu, allowing users to harness the true potential of the system.…

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Build Your Own Distro With Archiso

Web Monkey8 months ago03 mins

Archiso is a highly-customizable tool for building Arch Linux live CD/USB ISO images. The official Arch images are built with Archiso. But, it can be used to create your own customized Arch ISO for personal use, or for potentially building your own Arch-based distro.…

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Arco Linux Xtended Has All The Window Managers

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

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.…

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Xargs Should Be In Your Command Line Toolbag

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

Xargs is an important shell utility to know because it allows you to execute to pass standard input as an argument to another command. While many command line programs allow standard input to be used as a parameter (things like grep, sed, awk etc.),…

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Linux Mint Has Three Flavors. Which Is Right For You?

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

Are you new to Linux or thinking about switching to Linux? If so, then you probably know that Linux Mint is one of the best distros for new users.…

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DON’T Upgrade To Windows 11! Upgrade To Linux Instead.

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

Are you a Windows 10 user and considering upgrading to Windows 11? Have you considered other options? If not, then please watch this video before upgrading to Windows 11!…

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Installing Xorg And DWM On Gentoo

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

I made a video last week where I did a base installation of Gentoo inside a virtual machine. Viewers asked me if I could do a video on how to install Xorg and desktop environment or window manager.…

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The Right Mindset For Growing As A Linux User

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

Having the right mindset is important in growing as a Linux user, and it also important for growing as a person. Generally, you can break down people into being in one of two camps depending on their mindset.…

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Learning Sed Is Beneficial For Linux Users

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).…

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“Hey, DT! I Want A Distro In Between Ubuntu and Arch.” (And Other Questions)

Web Monkey3 years ago02 mins

Topics of discussion on this episode of “Hey, DT!” include: Audacity and alternatives, the middle ground between Ubuntu and Arch, my favorite music genre, the Windows package manager, Artix Linux, Javascript, audio interfaces that work with Linux, and Notepad++ dropping Bing over censorship.…

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Using Htop To Monitor Your System

Web Monkey3 years ago02 mins

Htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer and process-manager. It is designed as an alternative to the Unix program “top”. Even though Htop is a very popular program, many users are unaware of the customization options available for it.…

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New Release of Archcraft OS. Will It Change My Mind?

Web Monkey3 years ago03 mins

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.…

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Snaps: How we got here

Web Monkey3 years ago024 mins

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.…

Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020

Web Monkey3 years ago014 mins

The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com,…

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance

Web Monkey3 years ago011 mins

Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from its five-year standard security maintenance window in four months, leaving many asking the question: can I manage an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade by April 2021, or do I need more time to plan this migration?…

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When you need the numbers just right – benchmark and profiling applications in the Snap Store

Web Monkey3 years ago05 mins

The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate measurements of software behavior are essential in helping us understand and gauge how well our applications perform.…

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Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

OpenStack, the cloud computing platform, has proved to be a beacon of success for open source. It rounds off 10 years in existence this year, a period which has seen it reach nearly 200 countries, and we want to look ahead to what the future holds for the technology. …

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Embedded Linux for Teams

Web Monkey3 years ago05 mins

A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that focus on building great apps, rather than figuring out hardware dependencies.…

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Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations

Web Monkey3 years ago030 mins

Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has explored running ROS 2 on Kubernetes, set up a simple talker and listener, and distributed that demo across three machines.…

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Cybersecurity defenses for IIoT

Web Monkey3 years ago06 mins

Cybersecurity attacks on industrial IoT solutions can have detrimental consequences. This is the case because IoT devices record privacy-sensitive data and control production assets. Therefore, demonstrable trustworthiness is prerequisite to IoT adoption in industrial settings.…

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Popular snaps per distro (2020 edition)

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

Back in mid-2019, we wrote a blog post detailing and comparing the most popular snaps across multiple distributions – Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, and Ubuntu.…

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Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications

Web Monkey3 years ago09 mins

13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional applications on Windows and Linux. The collection is hosted at Charmhub.io…

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10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year. …

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Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Web Monkey3 years ago07 mins

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a guide for six key considerations when planning a migration path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.…

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Edge-native Linux

Web Monkey3 years ago3 years ago08 mins

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments.…

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The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem

Web Monkey3 years ago020 mins

In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we focused on the cold and hot application startups, but we did not delve much into the first-run setup scenario.…

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Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past. Head-sponsoring the first ever virtual OIS was an interesting experience to say the least, with more than 10,000 community members worldwide hoping on the hand-built OIS platform to see what’s new in the open infrastructure space, connect, and – why not?…

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Deploying Kubeflow everywhere: desktop, edge, and IoT devices

Web Monkey3 years ago06 mins

Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on K8s, now fits on your desktop and edge devices! ? Data science workflows on Kubernetes Kubeflow provides the cloud-native interface between Kubernetes and data science tools: libraries, frameworks, pipelines, and notebooks.…

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OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more

Web Monkey3 years ago07 mins

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack.…

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