In this tutorial, we will install and configure a DHCP Server on Ubuntu Linux. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network service for automatically assigning IP Addresses to clients on a network without having to manually configure it on every device. It follows a server-client architecture, where the client requests a DHCP Server to […]
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Vim and Nano are two of the commonly used editors available on Linux. Both the editors differ a lot in the way they operate. Nano is simple to use and easy to master while Vim is powerful and tough to master. Vim is a mode based text editor while Nano is modeless. Mode based editor
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Emacs editor is one of the oldest and most versatile text editors available for Linux UNIX-based systems. It has been around for over 20 years. It is known for its powerful and rich editing features. Emacs offers amazing editing features like that of Vim editor and is as user-friendly as the nano editor. You won’t have to enter insertion mode to
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In this article, we’ll learn the steps to install VLC on Ubuntu. VLC is a free and open-source cross-platform multimedia player. It is the go-to media player if you want to play video/audio content on your system. Personally, what I like about VLC is its ability to play files of different formats without any issue.
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Peek is an animated GIF recorder that makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. In this article, let’s learn how to install peek on Linux and record your first gif. GIF is short for Graphics Interchange Format. It is a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static
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Nano is a user friendly text editor available on Linux. It is easy to learn as compared to other text editors such as vim and emacs. Nano is a modeless, WYSIWYG command-line text editor. Modeless means that it doesn’t have modes like Vim editor and WYSIWYG means What You See Is What You Get. Beginner’s
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If you have installed software on your Linux system using the terminal then you must have come across apt-get install. This tutorial will explain what the command means and what’s the right way to use it. Let’s get started. What is apt? Apt stands for “Advanced Packaging Tool”. It is a package manager that is
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Linux, a freely distributable version of UNIX is developed by Linus Torvalds. Linux is one of the most popular operating systems to use for development by programmers. This tutorial will take a deep dive into the history of Linux. The beginning of the UNIX project The inspiration for UNIX came from the Multics project at
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In this article, we’ll learn to set the JAVA_HOME variable in Linux. JAVA_HOME should be correctly set on your system in order for you to be able to run Java programs successfully. In case there is an error, you will get the following error : To avoid getting this error you will have to set
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The help command is the simplest way to get information regarding a built-in shell command. It helps you fetch information from the shell’s internal documentation. It takes a text string as the command line argument and looks for the provided string in the shell’s documents. This saves you the time spent in going through the
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