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Debian Dec 25, 2018 7 min read

Debian Installation - Part 1

Debian is an Operating System like Microsoft Windows 10 and OS X. It is also the mother of all operating systems when one talks about its derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, etc. Debian has a cool installation setup that is quite beneficial to power users but a daunting one for end-users who dislike spending more time on installation setups. The first part of this series will guide you on how to install the Debian operating system on your computer. Downloading Debian OS

Reviews Dec 24, 2018 2 min read

GNOME Pomodoro New Features

GNOME Pomodoro is a time and focus management app which improves productivity and quality of work by balancing between work and rest time. If you want to learn more about this app, click here to read the article about it in detail. A new updated version of GNOME Pomodoro is released (v0.14). The program includes some new features worth mentioning: blurred background, a stats option, and last 10 seconds notification indicator. What’s New In GNOME Pomodoro V0.14.0-1 Blurred backgroun

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Reviews Dec 23, 2018 3 min read

Introduction To Ansible

Whenever possible, we should automate the tasks we perform. Automate tasks will make it easy to perform them, allowing us to do all the deployments of an application that we want with fewer possibilities of committing manual errors or it will allow us to have a new machine provisioned exactly as the production machine can be in much less time. In the field of machine provisioning and IT infrastructure management, there are several options, including Chef, Puppet and Ansible. In this arti

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Linux tools Dec 20, 2018 3 min read

Rsync - Best Tool To Sync Files Between Devices (Mainly Servers)

rsync is a Linux CLI to copy or sync files between location A and B where location A and B can differ from network, host or device type. It is used at most by system admins to copy or move files through the network and even works on local files. rsync uses a delta-transfer algorithm to transfer files, reducing the time it takes to send files remotely and locally with tags available to only incrementing the remaining missing part of files. Its algorithm (lqquickcheckrq algorithm) inclu

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Linux tools Dec 15, 2018 3 min read

How To Mount USB Drive In Linux

Mounting a USB drive is easy these days on most Linux distros. But you may encounter some weird quirky distros that demand your terminal knowledge for mounting a USB drive successfully without it doing the work for you. For instance, if you’ve tried installing a Linux server or Slackware for general purpose use or tried Linux From Scratch (LFS), they mostly come in terminal mode before you get on with the GUI stuff. This article will guide you on how to mount a USB drive in case you eve

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Linux Tutorials Dec 12, 2018 5 min read

3 Ways To Install Arch Linux

Maybe today is the day you’ve decided to take the step. You have enough time in GNU/Linux, enjoying the usability provided by some of the most famous, user-friendly distributions. And you think you do not have enough, that you want more. Greater control over what you install or stop installing, knowledge about the structure of directories in GNU/Linux, feel that you have the wheel of your own team… deepen, in short, in the system that you like. Buddy, I was there, believe me. Although I’

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Linux Tutorials Dec 11, 2018 8 min read

Connecting To A Proxy Server - Part 2

Previously, We have seen what a proxy server is, it’s advantages and some web that tells you about your connection. However, you must be clear that proxy and VPN are not the same and that a proxy server does hide your IP but does not eliminate more identifying data. Next, we are going to show you how to connect to a proxy. HOW TO CONNECT TO A PROXY SERVER Step 1: Find a proxy server to connect The first step to connect to a proxy server is to look for a proxy server. To lo

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Linux Tutorials Dec 10, 2018 6 min read

Connecting To A Proxy Server - Part 1

In this series, we will detail how to connect to a proxy web server in order to be able to browse anonymously. This series is related to the post on how to connect to a VPN that Mohd Sohail wrote in the past and you can read that here. In the post of VPN we saw its theoretical operation, the benefits it can provide us and finally, we saw how to establish a connection with a series of free VPN servers that we can find on the internet. Now the idea is to do the same but this time

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Linux Distributions Nov 28, 2018 9 min read

47 GNU/Linux Distributions For Your Desktop, Old Computer, Hobbies Or Raspberry Pi

The world of GNU/Linux distributions is a world full of open source and mostly free operating systems, all of them based on the same core. If you are thinking about giving some of them a chance, here are 47 GNU / Linux distributions series so you can find the one that best suits what you are looking for. We will start with the best and simplest to start and take the first steps in GNU / Linux, and then we will continue with some a little more advanced. Once covered these two, we will tal

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Linux Tutorials Nov 26, 2018 3 min read

Snap Application Permissions

We have already written about snaps and its advantages against other packaging application system. If we compare RPM and DEB packages to snaps we can see on snaps automatic background updates allowing up-to-date applications, with bugs fixes more frequently. A snap app is packaged with all dependencies making the application very big in comparison with other packages. We can add to snap disadvantages the old-style cursor on some applications and configuration or data loss on eclipse – Sn

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Learn Bash Nov 25, 2018 4 min read

Decisions | A Way To Make BASH Program Intelligent - Learn BASH | Part 4

Welcome to the fourth chapter of BASH scripting series in which we will discuss the topic, decisions. Like a human being making decisions throughout the day, computers too need to decide on the best possible route when executing stuff from time to time. It has to consider whether a certain line of statements is necessary to be executed or not, based on a condition. In computer programming, the condition is usually tested on boolean values; either true or false. What is a decision

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Linux Tutorials Nov 24, 2018 1 min read

Password Hashing And Why We Need It

As a web developer, you must have come across the term password hashing at least once. Let us quickly understand what is password hashing and why we even need it. What is Password Hashing? Password hashing is the process of encrypting a user’s password before storing it into a database. The encryption is one way and passwords once hashed cannot be decrypted to their original text value. Why do we need to Hash Passwords? Password hashing has become extremely important in

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