There are questions asked by Linux newbies that we, the more experienced ones, have the duty to answer. One of them concerns how to find the current desktop environment. In addition to this, knowing once and for all, which is the version of it. Today, in this post, you will learn how to do it. […]
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Debian is a free operating system. A free Linux distribution with thousands of applications to meet our users’ needs. It is developed and maintained by the Debian project along with the community. Debian always has at least three releases in active maintenance: stable, testing, and unstable. There are 3 development branches in Debian: At the time of writing, the
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Usually, you need to perform folder synchronizations on different computers. In Linux, this task is fully accomplished by the rsync command. Rsync is present in the official repositories of many Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and others. Also, the Linux rsync command has many different options that allow you to modify the way synchronizations
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In the previous post, we have learned that it is a package manager that helps us to install, uninstall and do many operations with packages. Although these programs are relatively easy to use, they have to be invoked from the console. So, if you are a novice user coming from Windows or macOS, maybe the
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In general terms and without going into too much detail, a package in Linux consists of a collection of files that allow the installation of a program and its related tasks, such as dependency scanning, pre-installation, and so on. Therefore, a package is not the application as such but the collection of files needed to
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The Linux iostat command helps you to monitor the activity of the system’s devices, partitions, and networked systems (NFS). You can also use it to compare activity between disks. This command generates reports which you can use to change system configuration for better balance the input/output load between physical disks. The first report this command
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Flatpak is a relatively new technology in Linux with an idea that is not new. The idea is to create “universal” applications to install on any distribution without worrying about dependencies or incompatibilities. It is built and designed to isolate applications from each other and the rest of the system. This makes the system secure,
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Mailx is an intelligent mail processing system in Linux with good features to send and receive emails. It is a character-based email agent, unlike Gmail, Outlook which is GUI-based. But this doesn’t undermine the importance of this utility. This is based on Berkeley Mail 8.1 and provides the complete functionality of the POSIX mailx command. Extensions
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One of the commands that have become essential for many sysadmin and Linux professionals is the nmap command. That is why the more information we have about this command the better. That is why we have prepared this post with the intention that you learn how to use the nmap command in Linux. Introducing to
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We have a lot of good browsers available for Linux like Firefox, Google Chrome, Vivaldi, or Opera. Many of these browsers are based on the Chromium browser project and are successful. Microsoft also made a bold move and released Edge browser based on the same chromium browser. So let’s install Edge on Ubuntu Linux and
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