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System76 Launches Their Own Linux Distribution Called  Pop!_OS
Linux Distributions 3 min read

System76 Launches Their Own Linux Distribution Called  Pop!_OS

It is a new day and a new Linux distro pops out. And the new(old) question remains, DO WE NEED ANOTHER LINUX DISTRO? For the most part, the answer is going to be a very big NO! But for this latest distro on the block, I believe it is a step in the right direction. System76 remains one of the few remaining big players when it comes to selling great Linux computers (DELL also sell great laptops that ship with Linux). For a while now, they have provided some really great Laptops that shi

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Setting Up AVR-GCC toolchain and avrdude To Program An AVR Development Board In UBUNTU
Programming 7 min read

Setting Up AVR-GCC toolchain and avrdude To Program An AVR Development Board In UBUNTU

Contemporarily we have technologies like IoT or the Internet of Things trending everywhere. And the embedded systems field forms the backbone of IoT technologies. IoT means interconnection between various devices presents all over the globe. And it is the embedded system that plays a vital role in IoT, by connecting the physical world through sensors and other hardware devices, with the cloud. So what are embedded systems? Ever wondered what kind of system drives devices like p

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LMMS A Music Production App For Linux
LMMS 5 min read

LMMS A Music Production App For Linux

LMMS is an audio workstation for audio designers and hobbies (yes that’s right). Still better it’s FOSS + it’s available for multiple Operating Systems and that gives you the great opportunity to recommend your music pals this great piece of tool. Setting it up: Fire up your terminal emulator and key in this command to install LMMS on your Ubuntu. sudo apt install lmms …done? Now to open LMMS you need to press this key combination alt+f2 then type in LMMS (and the rest dep

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An Interview With Peppermint CEO Mark Greaves
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An Interview With Peppermint CEO Mark Greaves

In this series of interviews, I’m going to publish interviews with CEOs of some of the very interesting, popular and fine Linux distributions. The first one is Mark Greaves, the CEO of PeppermintOS, a really nice and useful distribution but often misunderstood as the cloud-centric distribution (even I used to think the same).   Thanks for giving me this opportunity to explain a little about PeppermintOS, where we came from, and what we stand for.   Q1. What made you start this project?

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What Are Ports? How To Check Linux Open Ports?
Linux Tutorials 2 min read

What Are Ports? How To Check Linux Open Ports?

A port is an addressable network location implemented in an operating system to help differentiate traffic destined for different services or applications. A port is always associated with an IP address of a host and the protocol type for the communication. Ports are specified by a number ranging from 1 to 65535. There are different categories of ports. * 0-1023 – are “Well Known Ports” associated with services considered as critical or essential. They are also referred to as Sys

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Popcorn Time Watch Movies and TV Shows On Linux
Reviews 3 min read

Popcorn Time Watch Movies and TV Shows On Linux

Watching your favorite TV shows and movies series is what you all guys do every day. Flash, Iron Fist or Moana and many more awesome movies and tv shows that we love to watch. The problems come when you are traveling. Many of your shows or movies are restricted to a particular region and cannot be accessed when you are traveling or want to just quickly watch that awesome flash punch from an episode of 1 month old. There are many reasons why we will want a TV service that can give us all sho

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Boot Repair Tool - Repair The Most Boot Related Problems
Linux tools 4 min read

Boot Repair Tool - Repair The Most Boot Related Problems

We all encounter many times the boot related problems and most of them are simply related to GRUB. Many people find it way too hard sometimes to enter long commands or search forums to find the way they can solve it. Today I am going to tell you how to use a simple, small software to solve most of the boot related problems. This tool is known as Boot Repair Tool. Now no more talk and get to work. How To Install And Use Boot Repair Tool In Linux You will need a live bootable pendriv

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How To Setup Open Watcom On WINE For Windows Programmers
Linux Tutorials 4 min read

How To Setup Open Watcom On WINE For Windows Programmers

Open Watcom is a C/C++ compiler suite (including FORTRAN) for Windows, handy for those Linux users who wish/need to program in Windows environment but don’t have one. This is the only successful programming tool that runs under WINE! Still, that doesn’t mean it works fine without errors. That’s also the fun part because you get the opportunity to use commands more often for compiling, linking and then running the program. Installing Open Watcom You can download the software from he

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How to Extract and Install .tar.gz Files in Linux
Linux Tutorials 3 min read

How to Extract and Install .tar.gz Files in Linux

Linux is the operating system with more kinds of packages. If you have used Debian, you should know the file type .deb. If you have used Fedora, you should know the file type .rpm. In Linux we have many file types when we talk about installation packages and surely you’ll learn to install .tar.gz packages. Table of contents * What is .tar.gz or .tgz? * How to install .tar.gz or .tgz file in Linux What is .tar.gz or .tgz? Tar isn’t an installation package but a computer sof

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Avidemux Video Editor An Easy To Use Video Editor For Linux
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Avidemux Video Editor An Easy To Use Video Editor For Linux

We all edit videos sometime in our life. It can be your Granny’s video or Mom’s special recipe video or your artist awesome line that you need to upload to youtube. On Linux, we have an awesome video editor which is fairly easy to use and is very much powerful. The editor I am talking about is Avidemux. The team behind Avidemux defines it as:- “Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD co

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Top 5 Ubuntu Themes Of The Month
Themes 4 min read

Top 5 Ubuntu Themes Of The Month

Every month we select the top themes for Ubuntu. Many themes stay same and many change. Themes are one of the best ways to make our desktop beautiful and who doesn’t want to make his desktop beautiful? The themes mentioned below are paid and free too. Select as per your liking and install it right now. So let us start the themes right now. Remember themes are not in some top order. Each and every theme is great in itself. Try them all, I will say. Numix-Circle

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Clonezilla Live - Clone Your Hard Drive Easily
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Clonezilla Live - Clone Your Hard Drive Easily

We all have a hard disc that has our favorite pictures, films, games, Rap songs, and other items. Generally, hard discs are used to store or create backups. But what if all you want is an exact clone of your hard discs? How are you going to reveal all of the secret files? What if your computer dies and you want to backup everything before attempting a hard-drive repair? It’s time for Clonezilla to enter the fray. Clonezilla Live is a free disc imaging and data recovery software created b

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