If you want instant access to a folder across many devices, Syncthing is what you need. It is an open-source cross-platform file syncing solution which can work locally or over the Internet! It has clients for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It also has an Android app to sync from and to smartphones! Let’s start by …
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The LEMP stack is a group of software that you can use to serve dynamic web pages written in PHP. LEMP is the combination of Linux, Nginx (pronounced as Engine-x), MySQL, and PHP. In this article, we’ll look at how to install and set up the LEMP stack on an Ubuntu/Debian machine. Since we will …
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Do you feel that the default launcher of your distro isn’t what you need? If yes, you should definitely read this article on Ulauncher. If no, let me know if I changed your mind by the end of this article in the comments section. Let’s start by installing ULauncher so that you can get the …
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In this post, we will be learning about the system monitor in Ubuntu Linux. System Monitor is the equivalent to task manager in Ubuntu. System monitor, well, lets you monitor the system. You can have a look at all the processes running, system memory and network usage. System monitor usually comes pre-installed with most versions …
In this tutorial, we will learn the steps to install GUI on Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu server is a server operating system which by default comes only with the command-line interface. In cases where you need a graphical interface, we need to have a desktop environment. Installing Complete Desktop Environment We will be looking into various …
While updating or installing packages using apt, apt-get, aptitude, or dpkg, you might get an error saying ‘unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock‘ or a similar error related to locks. The error message looks something like this: You might also get these error messages: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock – open (11: Resource …
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In this article, we will be looking at 10 Linux alternative Operating Systems. The obvious two would be Windows and macOS but we will look at other ones than these two. List of Linux Alternative Operating Systems When it comes to open-source Operating Systems, Linux would be, unanimously, the most popular and widely used one. …
scp (Secure Copy) is a command to securely copy files to and from a remote host. It internally uses SSH to perform it’s operations. Installing scp Command scp is present in the OpenSSH Client package. (openssh-server package provides the SSH Daemon while openssh-client package provides various tools related to SSH.) For Ubuntu/Debian (and their derivatives) …
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In this tutorial, we will be looking at the steps to install and set up a VNC Server on a CentOS 8 machine. VNC or Virtual Network Computing is a platform-independent protocol that enables users to connect to and control a remote computer system graphically. It follows a server-client architecture. Steps to Install VNC Server …
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The screen command is a terminal multiplexer. It is similar to the Window Manager for a Desktop Environment except that it works inside the terminal. It can create sessions and split windows which are a very powerful way of doing multitasking in the terminal. Installing the screen command The screen command can be installed with …
