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There are times when it’s useful to inspect what a running application is doing under the hood, and what system calls it is performing during its execution. To accomplish such a task on Linux, we can use the strace utility. In this article we will see how to install it and we will learn its basic usage.

When choosing the best Linux distribution for your needs, multimedia experts such as video editors and photographers will benefit most from a Linux distro that specializes in multimedia production. There are a few Linux distributions that fill the gap for multimedia gurus, and we're going to cover the top choices in this article. Read below to see our countdown of the five best multimedia Linux distros.

Grub is a boot loader for many Linux distributions which basically tells your system where it can find installed operating system(s) on one or more hard drives. Your PC needs this information in order to boot into your Linux distro successfully. If grub becomes corrupted, one such error you may come across is "error: no such partition grub rescue."

There are many reasons why you may want to create compressed encrypted file archives. You may want to create an encrypted backup of your personal files. Another possible scenario is that you may want to privately share content with a friend or colleague over the web or through cloud storage. Tar.gz files, or compressed tarballs, are created using the tar command. These tarballs are pretty much the standard go-to format for archives on GNU/Linux, however they are not encrypted. In the above scenarios that we mentioned it is often desirable to have encryption in order to secure your data. This is where gpg comes in.

Netcat is a versatile networking utility which can be used for reading from and writing to TCP and UDP connections on arbitrary ports (as with other utilities used on Linux, ports below 1024 require root/sudo privileges). By default netcat uses TCP connections, but UDP can be specified with the -u flag.

Nowadays Javascript can be easily defined as the world most used programming language: it is used on a variety of platforms, it is integrated in web browsers and thanks to the Node.js runtime it can also be used server-side. In this tutorial we will see the loops we can be used in modern Javascript.

When we decide to install an operating system based on the Linux kernel, the first thing we do is to download its installation image, or ISO, from the official distribution website. Before proceeding with the actual installation, however, it is crucial to verify the integrity of the image, to be sure it is what it claims to be, and nobody has compromised it. In this tutorial we will see the basic steps we can follow to accomplish this task.

An USB stick able to store, and let us boot from several Linux distributions images is a very handy tool to have at our disposal. In a previous article we saw how to manually setup and create it from scratch; however, since such operation can quickly become tedious, in this tutorial we will see how to use Ventoy, a tool able to make all the dirty work for us.

The Nvidia CUDA toolkit is an extension of the GPU parallel computing platform and programming model. The Nvidia CUDA installation consists of inclusion of the official Nvidia CUDA repository followed by the installation of relevant meta package and configuring path the the executable CUDA binaries.

The objective of this tutorial is to provide the reader with a quick-start guide on how to test 3d acceleration by checking for FPS on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.

The objective is to install the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux and switch from a opensource Nouveau driver to the proprietary Nvidia driver.

The objective of this article is to help the reader to connect the Android Smartphone to the KDE desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. In this tutorial you will learn: how to install KDE Connect on Ubuntu, how to install KDE Connect on Android and how to pair an Android device with KDE connect.

The objective is to install VMware Workstation PRO on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux. Then, you can set up virtual machines with VMware Workstation Pro on a single physical machine and use them simultaneously with the actual machine.

The objective of this tutorial is to show you how to create a desktop shortcut launcher on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa using the default GNOME user interface.

LAMP is a conventional model of web service stacks. The components that LAMP is built from are all open-source and include: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system, and the PHP programming language. In this short tutorial we will be configuring a basic LAMP server on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.

The latest Ubuntu release, 20.04, marks an opportunity for both LTS users and people on the previous 19.10 release to update Ubuntu and take advantage of the latest features.

The cURL linux command can use various network protocols to download and upload data on Linux. Normally, using the cURL command is pretty basic, but it has a ton of options and can grow more complicated very quickly. In this guide, we'll go over some of the more common uses for the cURL command and show you syntax examples so you can use it on your own system.

Hulu is only gaining in popularity, but it doesn't officially support Linux. Thankfully, it's actually very simple to watch Hulu on Linux with either Firefox or Google Chrome.

On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, tar is undoubtedly one of the most used archiving utilities; it let us create archives, often called “tarballs”, we can use for source code distribution or backup purposes. In this tutorial we will see how to read, create and modify tar archives with python, using the tarfile module.

After you download and install Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa you may wonder what to do next or how to best customize your Ubuntu 20.04 system to make everything you do as efficient as possible.This guide helps you to identify things to do after installing Ubuntu 20.04 that are right for your specific needs.