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2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to use the tee command on Linux for various purposes.

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2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to view images right from the Linux terminal.

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2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to resize images with right click on Linux.

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How to Become a root User In Linux

How to Become a root User In Linux

The root user is a super user on Linux, which is similar to an administrator on Windows.

It performs all kinds of administrative operations, so do not give anyone root access because they may damage your system if they are not familiar with Linux.

Disabling root is a safe approach, UBUNTU basically does this and forces sudo instead of root access.

To deal with this situation you can…

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6 Best AUR (Arch User Repository) Helpers for Arch Linux

Arch Linux is a Linux distribution largely based on the binary packages which targets x86-64 microprocessors computers.

Arch Linux uses rolling release model wherein the updates are frequently delivered over to applications.

It has package manager called pacman which allows to install, remove and update software packages.

Newbies are advised to step in after gaining hand on…

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The Kubuntu-Powered Premium Laptop is Available for Purchase

The Kubuntu-Powered Premium Laptop is Available for Purchase

We recently wrote an article on buying a Linux preloaded laptop from the best 16 places.

Kubuntu Council has announced a premium Kubundu powered laptop called Kubuntu Focus.

Kubuntu Focus Laptop is a collaboration of Mindshare Management Inc, and Tuxedo Computers.

Most vendors offer Ubuntu running laptops with GNOME, except few.

But this is a new option for Linux users to experiment…

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Ansible Ad-hoc Command Quick Start Guide with Examples

Ansible Ad-hoc Command Quick Start Guide with Examples

Recently, we have written an article about the Ansible installation and configuration.

Only a few examples of how to use it are included in that tutorial.

If you are new to Ansible, I suggest you read the Installation and Configuration section by pressing the URL above.

Once you’re good in that area, go ahead and play with this article.

By default, Ansible uses only 5…

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MintBox 3 - Linux Mint's Fanless PCs is Available to Buy

MintBox 3 – Linux Mint’s Fanless PCs is Available to Buy

MintBox 3 and MintBox 3 Pro PCs are now available for purchase, which was announced back in July.

It is based on Airtrap 3 but has been customized to provide users with the best desktop Linux experience.

It ships with the latest Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Cinnamon pre-installed.

Compulab offers a 5 year warranty for MintBox 3 and 5% of every MintBox3 sold is donated to Linux Mint.

The…

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Bash Script to Send eMail With a List of User Accounts Expiring in "X" Days

Bash Script to Send eMail With a List of User Accounts Expiring in “X” Days

The password enforcement policy is common to all operating systems and applications.

If you want to implement a password enforcement policy on Linux, go to the following article.

The password enforcement policy will be enforced by most companies by default, but the time period will be different depending on the company’s requirements.

Usually everyone uses a 90-days password…

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Bash Script to Monitor CPU, Memory and Swap usage on Multiple Linux System With eMail Alert

Bash Script to Monitor CPU, Memory and Swap usage on Multiple Linux System With eMail Alert

You have a small infrastructure and want to check multiple system performance simultaneously for some reason.

This script will help you to create a report for you.

You can use this script to generate a CPU, memory and swap usage for a multiple Linux system.

Three shell scripts are added in this tutorial to generate a report.

Each bash scripthas written with unique features and choose…

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Fedora 29 Officially Reached End of Life (EOL) on November 26th 2019

Fedora 29 Officially Reached End of Life (EOL) on November 26th 2019

Fedora 29 has officially reached End of Life (EOL) effective on November 26th 2019.

Users are advised to upgrade the latest release of Fedora 30 or Fedora 31, which was released on October 29, 2019.

It’s a good time to upgrade your system as this EOL version repositories won’t be get any updates from the Fedora community.

I mean to say, no updates will be pushed to any of the Fedora 29…

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Bash Script to View System Information on Linux Every Time You Log into Shell

Bash Script to View System Information on Linux Every Time You Log into Shell

There are several commands in Linux to obtain system information such as processor information, manufacturer name, and serial number, etc,.

You may need to run several commands to collect this information.

Also, it is very difficult to remember all the commands and their options.

Instead you can write a shell script to customize the output based on your needs.

In the…

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6 Methods to Quickly Check if a Website is up or down from the Linux Terminal

6 Methods to Quickly Check if a Website is up or down from the Linux Terminal

This tutorial shows you how to quickly check whether a given website is up (alive) or down from a Linux terminal.

You may already know some of these commands to verify about this, namely ping, curl, and wget.

But we have added some other commands as well in this tutorial.

Also, we have added various options to check this information for single host and multiple hosts.

This article…

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The Second Window of the Pinebook Pro Pre-Order has been Announced

The Second Window of the Pinebook Pro Pre-Order has been Announced

If you have missed to buy Pinebook Pro in August.

Don’t worry, the pine64 team has announced that the second windows of Pinebook Pro pre-orders will be open to everyone from November 05.

For this batch a choice of ANSI and ISO keyboards will be available.

If you are looking for information on other brands, check out the following link

The Pinebook Pro is not like other computer…

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Dell's New XPS 13 Developer Edition is Powered by the 10th Generation

Dell’s New XPS 13 Developer Edition is Powered by the 10th Generation

In August 2019, Dell announced the first configurations of Dell’s XPS 13 Developer Edition.

It is based on Intel’s 10th Generation Core U series processors.

The laptop model is the “Model 7390” powered by the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system.

Last week they announced a new configuration for XPS 13 in honor of Halloween

All together (In total), they are offering 18…

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openSUSE Leap 15.0 Reaches End of Life on November 30th 2019

openSUSE Leap 15.0 Reaches End of Life on November 30th 2019

openSUSE Leap 15.0 Reaches End of Life on November 30th, 2019. openSUSE Leap 15.0 will reach its end of support after 1.5 years of lifetime.

openSUSE Leap 15.0 is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 sources, which was released on May 25, 2018.

openSUSE Lifetime:

Each Leap Major Release (42, 15, etc.) is expected to be maintained for at least 36 months, until the next major version of…