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GNOME Pomodoro: A Time Utility Tool That Increases Productivity
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GNOME Pomodoro: A Time Utility Tool That Increases Productivity

Hello readers, today I’ll be covering on how to increase your productivity and this applies to all types of computer users, especially Linux, just kidding. 😛 Believe me most of us who work on computers have suffered back pain, eye strain, stress, and then end up getting frustrated. However, did you know that one can fix all those issues by managing time in intervals and a short break in between? Yes, that’s right, read below how you can go about that using GNOME Pomodoro.   How GN

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Linux Network Management with "netstat"
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Linux Network Management with "netstat"

The netstat (short for network statistics) command line tool helps in retrieving information such as network connections, network interfaces in use, routing tables, masquerade connections.  It lists out all the TCP, UDP socket connections, and the UNIX socket connections. The common test case that almost everybody encounters to see whether a given background process says a web server running or not on the specified port. Apart from this kind of simple yet powerful test case, netstat is h

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Overview Of tcpdump With Examples
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Overview Of tcpdump With Examples

You can view information about traffic coming and going from a given network interface using tcpdump. This diagnostic tool allows you to see packet information, that is where incoming packets come from and where outgoing packets are heading to on an interface, with some extra information. You can even save the output to a file to inspect later on. This article will demonstrate simple examples of tcpdump. tcpdump  Default Behavior Running tcpdump with no parameters will look for the

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Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP
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Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP

I have always found battery life with Linux to be relatively lesser than windows. Nevertheless, this is Linux and we always have something up our sleeves. Now talking about this small utility called TLP, that can actually save some juice on your device. TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management is a small command-line utility that can genuinely help extend battery life by performing several tweaks on your Linux system. $ sudo apt install tlp For other distributions, you can read th

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12 Practical Examples Of wget Command In Linux
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12 Practical Examples Of wget Command In Linux

Wget command is a useful GNU command line utility used to download files from the internet. This utility can download the files from servers using popular protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It runs in the background (non-interactive) and hence can be used in scripts and cron jobs. GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nikšić and currently, it is under Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah, and Giuseppe Scrivano. In this article let us look at 12 useful examples of using wget utility. wget Command Ex

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ifconfig Commands To Configure, Monitor And Debug Network Interface
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ifconfig Commands To Configure, Monitor And Debug Network Interface

Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as necessary.  After that, it is usually only needed when debugging or when system tuning is needed.   If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces. If a single interface argument is given, it displays the status of the given interface only; if a single -a argument is given, it displays the status of all interfaces, even those th

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How To Use grep Command (With Examples)
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How To Use grep Command (With Examples)

Grep short for Global Regular Expression Print is a command line utility for searching lines in text based data to match a particular regular expression.   How to use grep command Grep is extremely simple to use, I have a text file on my Desktop with the following text.   Now let’s say we need to search for a particular pattern from this file, we can do that by using the following command. grep “pattern to match” filename In this case, we will use the following command to

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Top 10 Linux Network Monitoring Tools
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Top 10 Linux Network Monitoring Tools

Keeping control of our network is vital to prevent any program from overusing it and slows down the overall system operation. There are several network monitoring tools for different operating systems today. In this article, we will talk about 10 network monitoring tools for Linux that will run from a terminal, ideal for users who do not use GUI or for those who want to keep control of the network use of a server through from ssh. * Best Monitoring tools for Linux * Iftop * V

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rTorrent A CLI Based Torrent Client For Linux
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rTorrent A CLI Based Torrent Client For Linux

  Unlike familiar graphical torrent clients such as Deluge and uTorrent, rTorrent is a completely text-based torrent application, designed to be used in a terminal or terminal multiplexer such as tmux.   Users who prefer the typical /r/unixporn text-heavy “rice” desktop configuration of foregoing a full Desktop Environment and instead opting only for a tiling window manager (such as i3wm, i3-gaps, Openbox, etc.) will likely find rTorrent enjoyable, as it fits in well with the keyboar

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'fdisk' Command To Manage Disk Partitions In Linux
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'fdisk' Command To Manage Disk Partitions In Linux

Fdisk(fixed disk or format disk) is a text-based command-line utility for viewing and managing hard disk partitions on Linux. Using fdisk you can view, create, resize, delete, change, copy and move partitions.   Fdisk allows you to create a maximum of four primary partitions as permitted by Linux with each requiring a minimum size of 40mb. You can also have a much larger number of logical partitions by subdividing a primary partition.  In this article, let us review how to use fdisk command

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Facebook Messenger CLI Chat Via Linux Terminal
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Facebook Messenger CLI Chat Via Linux Terminal

Hi, fellow Linux user there! How is your social life going? This is how most of the time I think my friends ask me. They think that I am all the time messed with the terminal. Now how to explain to Windows users that Terminal does almost all my work from games to app installation. From email to personal messages. Leave them! Today I am here with an amazing terminal software call “FB Messenger CLI”. This helps us to read, write and send our messages through terminal! Voila! Now you can even

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What Is DNF Package Manager And How To Use It
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What Is DNF Package Manager And How To Use It

A package file is an archive which contains the binaries and other resources that make software and the pre and post installation scripts. They also provide the information regarding dependencies and other packages required for the installation and running of the software.  In the Linux world, there are two main types of packaging formats, .deb for those in the Debian and Ubuntu world and the .rpm for the Fedora, RHEL and CentOS. These formats also have their own tools for package man

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