Sunday, July 31, 2016

How to Install Latest Deluge BitTorrent Client on Ubuntu 16.04/14.04

Deluge is a free, open-source and lightweight BitTorrent client, available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows. It has a rich collection of plugins that you can install to extend its funcationality. The latest stable version, 1.3.13, was released on July 20, 2016. Deluge BitTorrent 1.3.13...

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

How to Install OnlyOffice on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will be looking at installing OnlyOffice on Ubuntu 16.04. For those of you who don’t know, OnlyOffice is a web app that provides online office suite, email, document management, project managent and CRM system all in one place.
OnlyOffice is formerly known as Teamlab...

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Darktable is an Open Source Photo Editor for Professional Photographers

Darktable is a great free open source photo editor licensed under GPL v3. For those who don’t know Darktable, it’s an excellent raw photo editor and also a photo manager with a lot of tools you can use to edit your photos. It’s interface is very similar to Adobe Lightroom....

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Darktable is an Open Source Photo Editor for Professional Photographers

How to Install Remarkable Linux Markdown Editor

Remarkable is a free and open-source Linux Markdown editor. It’s very lightweight and yet fully featured. This tutorial will cover how to install Remarkable on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Arch Linux.
About Markdown
Compared to HTML, Markdown is much simpler to work with and...

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

How to Install Ubuntu Touch Emulator on Ubuntu 16.04

Want to experience Ubuntu Phone but can’t buy a real one? The good news is you can play around with the device by installing Ubuntu touch emulator which just require 512M RAM and 4GB disk space on your computer.
Install Ubuntu Touch Emulator on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
It’s very easy to do....

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

How to Install PhotoQT on Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18

PhotoQT is a simple, free and open-source image viewer that comes in very handy with its basic file management and image manipulation features. It allows you to rotate, flip and zoom images or delete, rename or move them. You can also check EXIF information and show images in a slide show. The ...

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Install Latest Pinta Image Editor on Ubuntu 16.04/14.04

Pinta is a free and open source image editor designed for non-professional users that are looking for a simple drawing alternative to GIMP. Pinta image editor includes all basic drawing tools (paintbrush, pencil, shapes), the ability to drawing freehand and common image-editing features and...

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

ArchBang Linux Install Step by Step Guide with Screenshots

ArchBang Linux, as its name suggests, is an Arch-based Linux distributions. It features the light-weight openbox window manager, conky and a simplified installation process. So rejoice for you guys who have difficulty installing Arch Linux! This tutorial will take you step by step through the...

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Download Your Linux ISO via DistroWatch Torrent Service

DistroWatch Torrent Corner is now hosting and seeding BitTorrent fils for Linux distros. As you may or may not already know, you can download Linux ISO images via BitTorrent.
Such as Ubuntu

Or Fedora.

However some Linux distros don’t offer a magnet link or torrent file to download, ...

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How to install and Use Unetbootin Linux Live USB Creator

Unetbootin, aka Universal Netboot Installer, is a free and open-source, lightweight program to create Linux live USB. A live USB is a USB drive that has a live OS installed and can be used to install the OS onto your hard drive. Written in C++, Unetbootin Linux live USB creator can run on Linux,...

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Saturday, July 23, 2016

Install CopyQ Clipboard Manager on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux

CopyQ is an open-source clipboard manager with advanced features. A clipboard manager converts the standard clipboard into an archive of content from previous copy operations. CopyQ provides a searchable and editable copy history including text, photos, drawings, and command lines, in addition...

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Friday, July 22, 2016

Show dd Progress with these 2 Methods in Linux

The Linux dd command is a well-known tool to create live USB. One drawback of this tool is that it doesn’t show progress and thus you don’t know what’s going on while creating live USB. This tutorial explains how to show dd progress in 2 methods.
Show dd Progress with Status...

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How to Access USB from VirtualBox Guest OS

There are times when you need to access USB from VirtualBox. For instance, you installed Kali Linux in VirtualBox and a USB wireless network adapter is required to do penetration testing. This simple tutorial will show you how to easily access your USB thumb drive, USB hard disk, or USB wireless ...

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Install Kazam Screencaster on Debian 8/Ubuntu/Linux Mint

When it comes to screencasting in Linux, you can use ffmpeg in the terminal, or use graphical tools like Kazam screencaster. Kazam is an open-source and feature-rich graphical screen recorder for Linux. Features of Kazam includes:

capture contents of the current screen
capture contents of all...

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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Build Your Own OpenStreetMap Tile Server on Ubuntu 16.04

OpenStreetMap, aka, OSM is a user contributed world map that is freely editable. This tutorial will show you how to build your own OpenStreetMap tile server on Ubuntu 16.04. 2GB RAM, 40GB disk space should be the minimum OpenStreetMap server requirements.
Step 1: Upgrade Software
sudo apt ...

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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Install Google Calendar Indicator on Debian 8/Ubuntu 16.04

With Google calendar indicator in the system tray, you can easily view and add events in your Google Calendar. If you don’t want to open Evolution or Thunderbird just to access the calendar, then this lightweight and speedy applet is for you. Here’s how to install Google Calendar...

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Friday, July 15, 2016

How to Make Debian 8 Look Like Classic Ubuntu Gnome 2 Desktop

Gnome 3 was out for quite some time, but many folks still had hard time getting used to it. In this tutorial we will look at how to switch to Gnome 2 (kind of) on Debian 8 Jessie and add Ubuntu elements to make it pleasing to the eye. We will download and install some packages from Ubuntu trusty...

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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Install Latest Skype for Linux on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSUSE

The brand new Skype for Linux app was released by Microsoft a few days ago. Currently it’s in alpha stage which has a new responsive UI, group IM and calls. Group video and calling phone numbers will come in upcoming releases.
Other features in this release are as follows:

The ability to...

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

How to Install Papirus Icon Theme on Ubuntu 16.04/Debian 8

Papirus is a stylish icon theme for GTK and KDE desktop environments which means you can install the GTK version on Unity, Gnome, Pantheon, Budgie, Cinnamon, XFCE and install the KDE version on KDE. This tutorial is going to show you how to install this icon theme on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus...

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How to Install Latest VirtualBox 5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04/Debian 8

VirtualBox is a free and open-source virtualization software that can be used in enterprise as well as in home. It can run on Linux, Mac, Windows. The latest VirtualBox 5.1 was released on July 12, 2016 by Oracle.
Is it a worthy update? Here are the highlights in VirtualBox 5.1:

increased Linux...

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Monday, July 11, 2016

4 Tips to Speed Up Ubuntu 16.04 Even if You Have SSD

Linux users overall enjoys a faster operating system than Windows users. However, if you use a heavyweight desktop environment like Unity, the speed can suffer. This post lists 4 easy tips you can apply to speed up Ubuntu 16.04 system. You can see a speed boost on low-end hardware and in...

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4 Tips to Speed Up Ubuntu 16.04 Even if You Have SSD

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Set Up Nginx Reverse Proxy for Google.com on a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

This tutorial covers the steps of configuring Nginx reverse proxy for the Google search engine.
In some countries and areas in the world like China, Google search engine is blocked. In this information age, search engines are the online portals to knowledge and Google is the #1 search engine...

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Thursday, July 7, 2016

How To Run Spotify Music Player as a Flatpak App

Flatpak, originally created by Alexander Larsson, is a competing technology to the snap package format introduced by Canonical in Ubuntu 16.04. Flatpak is formerly known as xdg-app until May 2016. Both Flatpak and Snap claim to provide a safe sandbox environment to run applications.
The d...

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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

How To Install and Use BleachBit 1.12 on Ubuntu 16.04

BleachBit is a free and open source system cleaner utility available for Linux and Windows with source code licensed under the terms of GPLv3. This utility does a really nice job of deleting unwanted junk file created by various applications. The latest stable version 1.12 was released on July...

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Network Security Toolkit (NST) 24 7977 Installation Step by Step

Network Security Toolkit, aka NST, is a Linux distribution for security professionals and network admins, using MATE as the default desktop environment and as such it is lightweight. The latest stable version NST 24 7977 was released on July 4th, 2016. It’s based on the recently released...

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Network Security Toolkit (NST) 24 7977 Installation Step by Step

Monday, July 4, 2016

Install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 (LAMP Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP) is the most common solution stack for dynamic websites. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 (LAMP stack) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trutsy Tahr.
Step 1: Update Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Before we install any software, it’s a...

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Snapd is now in Arch Linux Community Repo

Great news! Installing Snap packages in Arch Linux just got snappier! Because the snapd package and the related snap-confine and squashfs-tools are now in Arch Linux community Repository. To install snapd on Arch Linux and Arch-based Linux distro like Manjaro, Apricity OS, simply run:
sudo...

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Snapd is now in Arch Linux Community Repo

Friday, July 1, 2016

Install SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 on Ubuntu 16.04/Debian 8/Fedora/Arch Linux

SuperTuxKart, aka STK, released version 0.9.2 on July 1, 2016. It’s a free, open-source and cross-platform racing game available for Linux, OS X and Windows. It features the mascots of many open source project like Tux, Beastie, Pidgin, Wilber etc, with Mozilla Thunderbird being the...

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