Recently I moved from Fedora 38 to Ubuntu. After the move, I was faced with a rather difficult situation. Howdy wouldn’t install or fail to install. The error looked like this : So why does Howdy fail to install? The reason? Python 3.11. Ubuntu 23.04 introduced this new Python version which was causing new howdy …
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So, wireguard is being used quite a lot these days and everyone is trying ways to get a wireguard UI to manage the connections. My previous blog post about managing wireguard via network manager doesn’t seem to work for Ubuntu 22.04 and up. There is an open bug report for that here . The only …
So, Wireguard is the latest sensation in the the VPN world. It’s got the best of the best you can think of when it comes to VPN performance, security, ease of connectivity and power saving. All new distros support it. Unfortunately, there is no default GUI for Ubuntu’s network manager yet. Here is how to …
Ever since Ubuntu ditched Unity and switched to Gnome3, I’ve been trying to get the correct combination of extensions to mimic my Unity experience. Throw into the mix a heavy usage of MacOS X over the last 2 years. After spending a considerable time with the gnome extensions, I’ve finally managed to get my desktop …
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Ansible is a very flexible automation tool. It can be used for a wide range of system administration task and also infrastructure administration task. Many a times, for application administrators, there is a requirement to sudo to a different user specific to an application. The application or user may need to pull in information from …
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Mint repo server setup Recently I successfully created a Linux Mint local repo server. Below are the steps to create and sync the repo server. Step 1 Create a Linux mint server with Static IP / DNS and with at least 150 GB disk space. There are lots of tutorials on that, I won’t go …
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Sometimes, you need to add 3rd disk to a VM to increase disk space and use only a portion of it. For example, a VM is shared by a number of users. You’ve run out of disk space. You add 1TB HDD and allocate 250GB to a new user, leaving the rest of the disk …
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With less than two weeks left for the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this video shows the performance of Ubuntu 12.04 after 16th April updates. The latest updates stabilizes the OS even more and adds Unity 5.10, which brings a nice little animation during installation (although, for me, the animation is a bit too …
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As we continue with the intense debate of Gnome Shell vs Unity, which is more user (un)friendly, a new fork of Gnome 3 released by Linux Mint lead developer and founder is quietly gaining stability and maturity. The Cinnamon Desktop Cinnamon, that’s the name of the fork, was released with Linux Mint as Mint Gnome …
