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How To Burn ISO Image To DVD And USB Using dd
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How To Burn ISO Image To DVD And USB Using dd

As a Linux enthusiast and a distro hopper, I am always checking out new distros or newly released distros I already know about. There are a few handy tools available on Linux for writing ISO images to disks or USBs. Some of these tools include Unetbootin and Etcher amongst others.   Most of these tools use a GUI that can guide users to easily write their downloaded ISO images to disks or USB storage devices. Then also, there is dd, which is a command line utility that can be used to acco

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Ubuntu 18.04 Codename Announced | Bionic Beaver
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Ubuntu 18.04 Codename Announced | Bionic Beaver

After Aardvark, one of the most favorite releases of Ubuntu, the new version Ubuntu 18.04 has started taking shape under its new name “Bionic Beaver“. Mark Shuttleworth announced the codename on 24th October on his blog. Let’s see what it means and how it defines the new LTS.   Ubuntu 18.04 Codename “Bionic Beaver” So let’s see what Wikipedia says about Beaver.“The beaver is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent. Castor includes two extant species, the North American

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Introduction To VPN And Here Is How to Use It In Linux
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Introduction To VPN And Here Is How to Use It In Linux

A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a security concept designed to allow remote users to connect to a particular local network to the internet via a secure tunnel. In simpler terms, a VPN is an encrypted connection between two (or more) remote computers. The main two applications of this technology are either employee who are working remotely yet require access to their company’s network resources, or privacy-minded home users who wish to keep their web traffic protected from any pr

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Best Linux Distros For Gaming (Part 2)
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Best Linux Distros For Gaming (Part 2)

Who doesn’t love games? We all play games no matter what our age is but there is a thing. We all search for the best gaming distro for our PC’s. Gone are the days when the games on Linux were hard to get and gaming distro was hard to spot. Today I am going to mention some of the best gaming distros for Linux. Also, check out the part 1 of this article we covered here. Without wasting more time let’s get started on the list.   SteamOS If someone loves games then steam is not unf

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How To Reset sudo Password
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How To Reset sudo Password

It comes a time when for some reason someone forgets the login password for their Ubuntu computer, hence they become unable to access the computer. That is not the end, there is always something that can be done.   All you need is a working keyboard and familiarity with a few commands in fixing this problem and access to the computer as this cannot be fixed remotely. First, you will have to reboot your computer, hold shift until you are able to access a screen as shown below. This screen

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Find Devices Connected To Your Wifi In Linux
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Find Devices Connected To Your Wifi In Linux

Usually, our connection to the Internet should be private and free of malicious users, however, obtaining the keys to access the network is very simple currently so that a user with some knowledge about networks could get it in a few minutes and use it to navigate to Through our network, being able to consume a considerable bandwidth and making our network run slow. When we notice a suspicious activity it is advisable that we choose to check all the devices connected to our network to pr

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Richard Stallman - One Of My Favorites (GNU/Linux)
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Richard Stallman - One Of My Favorites (GNU/Linux)

Renowned programmer and promoter of free software Richard Stallman developed many flagship software, notably those underlying the GNU project and the general public license known by the acronym GPL. He wrote GPL with the lawyer Eben Moglen and the collaboration of Roland McGrath. This program was at the origin of the flowering of the Wiki, initiated by Ward Cunningham in 1995. The Wiki is a community of Internet users constructing adjustable websites, such as Wikipedia and the free

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10 Best Icon Themes For Linux
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10 Best Icon Themes For Linux

One of the coolest things you can do to your Linux desktop is tweaking it to suit you. One key part of the tweaking process is to change your icon theme and you probably are going to want to do this as some distros ship some displeasing icon themes. Fortunately, the Linux community provides a ton of themes that you can use to turn your Linux desktop around and looking good. Let’ take a look at some ten awesome available for your desktop.   1 – Moka €‹Moka was created with simplic

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5 Most Beautiful Linux Desktop Environments
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5 Most Beautiful Linux Desktop Environments

When it comes to choosing a Linux distro, one thing that influences the choices of many is the desktop environment that comes with the distros. As such, many distros provide variants with different desktop environments to cater for the specific needs of users. Some desktop environments are preferred because of their stability, or their familiarity and many others are popular because of their aesthetics. So today I present some 5 very beautiful desktop environments that you can choose from. So

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Best Alternatives To Photoshop On Linux
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Best Alternatives To Photoshop On Linux

You need an image editing software and you do not yet feel ready to buy a Photoshop license. Besides the online retouching sites, there are also free alternatives adapted for each use of the famous Adobe software that will allow you to tinker with the pixel at a lower cost.   Best Alternatives To Photoshop On Linux GIMP Gimp is surely the best known free alternative. It is also the most complete because it contains the main features of Photoshop: layer system, color correctio

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How To Install Wine And Run Windows Apps In Linux
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How To Install Wine And Run Windows Apps In Linux

All kinds of software are currently available on Linux but every now and then, there is that Windows software or Game which is not available or has no equivalent on Linux  Wine makes it possible to run those Windows programs and Games on your Linux desktop. So let’s look at how to install Wine on Linux and run Windows apps on Linux desktop. How to install Wine in Linux? Installing a package on a fresh system is remarkably straightforward. Just download the package available

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15 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark"
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15 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark"

The New Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” launch with GNOME3 has brought a big change and got a lot of people excited to try it as soon as they can. If you don’t know yet the new stuff in Ubuntu 17.10, read the article we published today.   15 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” 1. Select the fastest server for packages Just perform a server test by clicking on Select Best Server and you will get the server closest to your location. This helps in download

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