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Boot Repair Tool - Repair The Most Boot Related Problems
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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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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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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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PuTTY SSH Client And Telnet Client
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PuTTY SSH Client And Telnet Client

PuTTY as an SSH and Telnet client was originally developed by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is the most popular SSH client on Windows. It is also available on Linux and other operating systems as a direct port of the Windows SSH client. It is also able to use as a client for rlogin and raw TCP computing protocols. Components and Features PuTTY comes with several components, many of which provide very specific features to the application. Some of the components inc

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What Is Crontab And How To Automate Tasks In Linux With Crontab
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What Is Crontab And How To Automate Tasks In Linux With Crontab

Cron is a utility that manages background processes or daemons from time to time (for example each minute, day, week or month). Cron works like a scheduler, for example, it can download files from the internet or download emails at regular intervals, also you can use it for more complex tasks like install updates. Originally cron was created for UNIX by Ken Thompson, but now you can use it in all UNIX-like systems, even Linux! UNIX has other utility for tasks scheduling called “at” but cron i

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DNF Package Manager For RPM-Based Linux Distributions
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DNF Package Manager For RPM-Based Linux Distributions

It’s an RPM-based package manager used in a number of Linux Distros which include but are not limited to the likes of Fedora, CentOS, RHEL among other to install and update packages. DNF maintains CLI compatibility with Yum as its the next major version release, you will see that most of the commands will be similar to yum commands. DNF has the capability to automatically resolve dependency issues and is similar in operation to other package managers like the familiar “apt-get” that

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What is SSH Key? How To Generate SSH Key in Linux?
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What is SSH Key? How To Generate SSH Key in Linux?

SSH is short for Secure Shell. Secure Shell is a network protocol that provides administrators with a secure way (with encryption) to access a remote computer. it allows an administrator to log into virtual space server with an SSH key instead of a typical password. This eliminates the usual weakness of cracking passwords since SSHs almost can not be deciphered or cracked. So how exactly does this work? Let’s find out in this tutorial. SSH works using a key pair; the public key and th

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nano: CLI Text Editor For Everyone [basic tutorials]
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nano: CLI Text Editor For Everyone [basic tutorials]

nano is a Command Line Interface text editor for GNU/Linux designed to emulate Pico text editor. It is the standard de facto text editor of Linux for system maintainers, comes pre-installed on Ubuntu and its derivative including Linux Mint. It’s fairly advanced for newbies but not too hard to get accustomed to. Well, there is a saying that everything has a learning curve.   nano is for everyone Anyone, even enthusiasts too! But it’s best if you are constantly on the terminal or edi

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apt-get Or APT Package Manager With Some Basic Commands
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apt-get Or APT Package Manager With Some Basic Commands

So finally installed Linux Mint or Ubuntu on your system? Cool! But wait there’s more to be done than already done. What about software installation, uninstallation, managing files and so on. Well installing software on Linux Mint and Ubuntu is simple (or basic A for Apple, B for Ball, and C for Cat). Why? You would ask me and the answer is because of the way Debian manages software dependency files. Luckily, Mint and Ubuntu are Debian-based distros and that puts you in a good place to

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Top Interesting cron Jobs To Run On Linux
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Top Interesting cron Jobs To Run On Linux

A cron job is a scheduling service on Linux/Unix operating systems. These are simply a set of commands that are run periodically to do various tasks mostly used by system administrators and other users to do mundane tasks and procedures automatically with no user interaction. One can setup commands or scripts which run repeatedly at a prescribed time.   Cron is one of the most important and useful tools in Linux systems. The cron service (daemon) runs in the background and constantly che

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11 Best Linux Backup Solutions
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11 Best Linux Backup Solutions

Backing up your computer takes time and effort but that is nothing compared to the stress you undergo if things happen to go wrong. A dependable backup tool is something everyone needs to have. Let’s look at some great Linux backup solutions. 1. Fwbackups fwbackups offers a simple but powerful interface that permits you to perform backups with ease. fwbackups has a rich interface that is both powerful and easy to use. With support for scheduled backups and backing up to remote comp

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Linux find Command - Everything You Need To Know
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Linux find Command - Everything You Need To Know

We all need time to find a file that was taken on a specific date, time, or name. Ever wondered how are you going to find it? Yeah! I assume you might say about the search function in nautilus, pacman, or any other file manager you use, but what if you are not allowed to use it! Your file manager just freezes while searching for lots of files. Well, let’s come to the point. Today you will learn about the famous Linux find Command. What is it? Keep reading.   What is ‘find’ for? The

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