“If there is a media out there, VLC can play it!”. I want to say the same thing about Kitty and its versatility. If you didn’t know already, Kitty is one of the most comprehensive terminal emulators available in Linux. It offers
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The omnipresent top command is often the first tool that comes to mind for system resource monitoring in the Linux command line. Btop++ is a similar Linux system monitoring tool that shows usage statistics for processor, memory, disk, network, and processes. It
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I found it cool enough to watch someone, often portrayed as a hacker, use the Linux terminal, especially in the movies. What if I try to become one of the super cool hackers from the Hollywood movies? 😎 Now that I’m older,
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Here’s the scenario. You can connect to a remote Linux system over SSH and you find yourself in a situation where you have to copy some files from the remote server to your local system. How do you do that? You can
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Linux cybersecurity analysts spend countless hours dissecting malicious software to understand its functionality, origin, and impact. Here are six Linux commands that help me in this process, which I believe every professional in the field should have in their toolkit. 1. strings
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You can make yourself more productive in the Linux terminal by creating aliases of the most frequently used command combinations. For example, to update my Ubuntu system, instead of using: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I just use upd
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Being a Linux user, I can relate to your fascination with CPUs. There are times when you want to know every detail of your computer. How many cores are there? Is it virtual or physical processor? Who is the manufacture? And much
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The world of software packages on Linux and other Unix-based systems is quite a savannah: each system has its own singular package management approach, making a hell the life of who has to deal with multiple platforms. There are Pacman for Arch
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Bash the most common shell. Zsh is the most popular one among developers. But Fish is the most underrated one. I am not exaggerating. Fish indeed is an overlooked shell that could be a great fit for beginners and advanced FOSSers alike.
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Bash is not the only shell out there. There are many other shells available with slightly different feature sets. A few examples are Zsh, Fish, Ksh are Xonsh. You can have more than one shell installed on your system at any given
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