Simplifying Linux with … fish?
GarrettTT (CC BY-SA 2.0) The primary reason is that fish isn’t generally installed by default. In fact, on some distributions, the repository that provides it is one your system probably doesn’t access. If you...
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Review: Observium open-source network monitoring won’t run on Windows but has a great user interface, price
geralt (CC0) Since Apache and MySQL are prerequisites for Observium, your server needs to meet the hardware requirements to run them. In our test, a quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and adequate storage...
Fedora 28 beta is ready for you to test
Thinkstock New features in Fedora 28 beta So, what do you have to look forward to in this beta release or the planned May release? Inclusion of the Modularity initiative for Fedora 28 Server,...
How to share files between Linux and Windows
Anne Worner (CC BY-SA 2.0) You will also need to have ssh-server set up and running on your Linux system. This allows it to support the client (Windows side) connection requests. If you don’t...
Blacklisting modules on Linux
Elvert Barnes (CC BY-SA 2.0) The “Size” column purports to be the size of the module but is not really correct. You might note in the example above how many of the listed modules...
How to do math on the Linux command line
Wallpoper participants=11 total=156 share=`expr $total / $participants` remaining=`expr $total – $participants \* $share` echo $share 14 echo $remaining 2 If we have 11 participants in some event and 156 prizes to distribute, each participant’s...
What Is the Best Word Processor to Use on Linux?
Even after all these years, no one has yet dethroned Microsoft Word from its kingly position. Sure, a few alternatives have been playing a great game of catch-up and innovation, but there’s no doubt...
The Linux Spotify App Never Come
The year of Linux on the desktop never came, and never will. Don’t believe me? Just look at the state of proprietary software on Linux. It’s bad. From Adobe Flash, to Skype and video games, Linux...
20 Redis String Commands Examples
Redis is extremely fast, as the operation happens in the memory. Redis also provides on-disk persistence and built-in replication. Redis is an in-memory key-value pair database. In Redis, you can use these data structures:...
Show You 12 Chef Knife Cookbook Command Examples
When you are using Chef to manage all your servers and network equipments, you should first create cookbooks and appropriate recipes. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to use knife command to create and...
