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lsvpd - Linux Diagnostic Tools
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lsvpd - Linux Diagnostic Tools

This is a set of tools designed for technical/advanced users who wish to know more about their hardware and related components for servicing. This tool comes with various commands namely lsvpd, lscfg, lsmcode, lsvio & vpdupdate. Let’s proceed below to know more about them.   What are these diagnostic tools? It is a hardware inventory database program designed to re-implement AIX’s (IBM version of UNIX) related commands. * lsvpd lists all the VPD associated with the FRU

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Krita - Creative Sketching And  Painting Application For Linux
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Krita - Creative Sketching And  Painting Application For Linux

We all love paintings. Paintings are a sort of art that are mystically beautiful, exploring and blazing. Nowadays on Linux, there are many powerful applications that are available for painting and drawing purposes but Krita is one of them that stands out of everything. Krita is digital painting application which is distributed under GNU General Public License V 2 and above. As defined on its website: – Krita is a KDE program for sketching and painting, offering an end-to-end solution

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Linux Mint Desklets: How To Easily Manage It On Your Family PC
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Linux Mint Desklets: How To Easily Manage It On Your Family PC

Desklets are small Python programs that run inside gDesklets. What they are intended for is to get your focus-on-work and rely on the information the Desklet accesses [for you]. You get to finish your chores faster than ever and leave your computer satisfied as you shut it off for the next cycle. Simple basic Desklet So you have a clean wallpaper set-up and with no desklet(s).Right click your mouse and select “Add Desklets”. Right click “Launcher desklet” and sele

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UberStudent - Linux For Learners And Education
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UberStudent - Linux For Learners And Education

There are Linux distros for the desktop, for gaming, for privacy, for penetration testing and there are quite a few Linux distros for education. One awesome alternative to the very popular Edubuntu is UberStudent. The developers seek to provide a Linux distro that focuses on teaching and learning for secondary and higher education students. Out-of-the-box, UberStudent provides an ideal platform for Linux newbies and all computer users with a focus on the core academic skills such as rea

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DEFT Linux A Linux Distribution For Computer Forensics
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DEFT Linux A Linux Distribution For Computer Forensics

DEFT is a household name when it comes to digital forensics and intelligence activities since its first release way back in 2005. The Linux distribution DEFT is made up of a GNU/Linux and DART(Digital Advanced Response Toolkit), a suite dedicated to digital forensics and intelligence activities. DEFT is touted as a top choice among security and law enforcement agencies for the computer forensic investigations. But what makes DEFT such a capable distro? Let’s take a look. How To I

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Peppermint 8 Released
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Peppermint 8 Released

It has been quite long since I covered Peppermint in any of my articles. But that does not mean I don’t love it. I fell in love with this distro when I used it for the first time(Peppermint OS 6). Peppermint presents ‘Ice’, a web application management tool that let us use our favorite web applications right from the application menu or desktop. The Peppermint 8 release comes with some system tweaks and improvements. So let’s see more about it.   What Is Peppermint? As I am always

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Setting up Sun Java Wireless Toolkit on Linux Mint
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Setting up Sun Java Wireless Toolkit on Linux Mint

This topic might be very strange to any one who has no/very little knowledge of J2ME phones. But for those brave hearts who found this topic with the intention to create J2ME MIDlets, then you are at the right place! You might have configured Sun Wireless Toolkit on your Windows PC and struggled to set it up on your Linux system.   By the way, I chose the distro Mint specifically because of that. * is my primary OS. * “desklet” will be mentioned later. * found a specific issue while s

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Mutt An Open Source Text Based Email Client For Linux
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Mutt An Open Source Text Based Email Client For Linux

Mutt is an email client but with a different approach. It is fully based on the terminal when it comes to working. Mutt is a very simple email client easy to configure and use. It was really awesome to use it and now it is the default email client on my PC. Let us see more about mutt and see how to install mutt on our Linux box.   How to install mutt email client? The installation of mutt is pretty much easy. You should be able to find it in Software Center or you can use apt to in

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Get Hardware Details In Linux With 'dmidecode'
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Get Hardware Details In Linux With 'dmidecode'

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer’s DMI (some say SMBIOS ) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system’s hardware components as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the presented information possib

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All About Tar Files And How To tar, untar Files In Linux Using Terminal
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All About Tar Files And How To tar, untar Files In Linux Using Terminal

tar is an archive utility tool for GNU/Linux. Primarily used to distribute executable software or package the software source code in the tarball for later distribution. The most popular being gzip and you might have noticed the source file of a program usually ends with *.tar.gz. Well, that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to create an archive for other file types. You can. Archive a file Well, let’s learn how to archive a file. Launch terminal using ctrl+alt+t and cd into your

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How To Reset Root Password In CentOS 7
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How To Reset Root Password In CentOS 7

One of the most important things for Linux users is to know what to do if the root password is lost. Many times we create a strong password for our computer, but sometimes we forget it. This trouble is mostly for servers, and CentOS is a Linux distro focused on servers, so in this article, we’re going to learn how to reset password in CentOS Linux. Also Read – How To Reset root Password In Ubuntu? This process is simple, but we must be careful because if we do a wrong action, our sy

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How To Run Tomcat Server At Startup On Ubuntu Server
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How To Run Tomcat Server At Startup On Ubuntu Server

Every developer knows that for running any web applications it needs a web server. One of the most famous web servers for J2EE is Apache Tomcat. Tomcat runs applications created in JSP, JSF, Javascript, and available languages. To start the webserver you need to run a shell file called startup.sh and if you need to restart your server you need to go to the folder and run the same command again. What if you could run a script for this command to start tomcat every time your system starts? In t

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