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Lennart Poettering proposed adding a soft reboot mode to systemd.
Lennart Poettering has talked about preparing to add a soft-reboot mode ("systemctl soft-reboot") to the systemd system manager, which will only restart user space components without touching the Linux kernel. Compared to a regular reboot, it is expected that a soft-reboot will reduce downtime during updates of environments that use pre-built syste...
Alex · 09 May 2023 · 104How to use xargs command in Linux
Xargs is a powerful command-line utility in Linux that is used to execute commands with the help of the standard input. It's an essential tool for processing the input from other commands, files, or pipes, and executing actions on those inputs. Xargs...
Alex · 11 February 2023 · 15
How to use awk command in Linux
AWK is a powerful text-processing command line tool in Linux that enables users to perform various operations on a given data file. It can be used to extract, manipulate, and rearrange data from various file formats, including CSV and text files. In...
Jacob Enderson · 04 February 2023 · 100
How To Kill Zombie Processes on Linux
A Zombie process, also referred to as a "defunct" or "dead" process, is a process that has completed its execution but remains present in the system's process table. It should have been removed from the table by its parent process, but for some reason this wasn't done correctly. In a typical Linux system, when a process finishes its execution and e...
Jacob Enderson · 04 February 2023 · 131How to Use the Sudo Command in Linux
The sudo command (which stands for “superuser do”) is a powerful tool that allows users to execute commands with the privileges of the root user. It’s especially useful for system administrators who need to perform tasks that require root access. In...
Den W. · 27 January 2023 · 80
How to Check Your Linux Version
Do you want to find out what version of Linux you have? Whether you're setting up a new Linux machine or just curious about the version you have, it's easy to learn how to check your Linux version. In this article, we'll look at several methods for c...
Alex · 27 January 2023 · 71
5 Free Open Source Backup Software for Linux
Backup is to copy and save important data or files to another place to achieve data synchronization between different hosts. And backups on personal computers or servers are important to prevent data loss. System administrators need to process a larg...
Dayton C. Wilton · 21 December 2022 · 73
Ubuntu snap - uninstall or keep?
Snap is a package format which is mostly programmed and supported by Canonical, the Ubuntu developer. However, it is viewed with mixed feelings in the Linux community. Whether you should use Snap packages or not is explained here. What is Snap? Snap...
Den W. · 23 September 2022 · 288
How to use cat command in Linux
Command cat is used to concatenate files and print on the standard output. For example, if you need to print text file to console you can use this command cat some_file.txt You also can print multiple files cat file1.txt file2.txt That will print b...
Alex · 17 May 2022 · 117
Linux This Month: RHEL 8.4, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 & 1Password for Linux
This month, we'll be racing around looking at all the updates and other interesting things that have happened in this past month, in the wonderful and often wacky world of Linux and open source, including a bunch of enterprise Linux updates. RHEL 8....
Den W. · 07 June 2021 · 130
Linux This Month: Rocky Linux RC & Linux Kernel 5.12
Plasma Mobile is an open software system for Linux mobile devices, and the team have presented the updates they've been working on for March and April of 2021. They stated that most of their work has been focused on applications and some improvements...
Alex · 13 May 2021 · 264
Linux This Month - Releases Galore from Parrot OS 4.11, Ubuntu 21.04, GNOME, Debian and Red Hat
In this episode, we'll talk about GNOME 40, Ubuntu 21.04, Parrot OS 4.11, RHEL 8.1's Common Criteria Certification and Red Hat Summit 2021. Debian 10.9 Debian has announced a new release of Buster, otherwise known as Debian 10. Version 10.9 adds so...
Alex · 3 years ago · 149
Linux This Month - AlmaLinux arrives, Podman 3.0, KaliLinux and Ubuntu Core 20
In this episode, we're going to take a look at recent developments with AlmaLinux and Podman, and the arrival of Ubuntu Core 20, Kali Linux, 2021.1 and Firefox 86.0, let's take a look. First up in the news. If you've been crying in your beer over th...
Alex · 12 March 2021 · 321 · 1
Linux This Month - The future of CentOS, and Linux on Mars
By now, you've probably seen some sort of news on the landing of the perseverance Mars Rover, but did you know that there's actually a tiny helicopter ingenuity tucked under the Rover better yet? It's powered by Linux. The flight framework used for...
Jacob Enderson · 24 February 2021 · 96
Android Apps On Your PC!
The common latte is typically a bit of a pricey choice down at the coffee shop, but now there's a kind of latte you won't have to pay for. And no, I'm not talking about having someone give you a Starbucks gift card, which sounds like kind of a weird...
Alex · 28 January 2021 · 115
Linux This Month: LibreOffice, CentOS news and our 2021 Linux predictions
Today we'll be discussing some of the things that have happened this past month in the world of Linux. We'll start off with some CentOS news, Linux kernel 5.10 is finally out, LibreOffice 7.1 is now in public beta, Xfce 4.16 has been released. And we...
Alex · 22 January 2021 · 143