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Ubuntu versions, and official flavors, have different lengths of time that they’re supported. Today, we’ll learn how to tell how much longer you have Ubuntu support and what you can do about it. Every two years, Ubuntu releases a LTS version. That means “Long Term Support” and the support length for that is usually 3 … Continue reading “How Long is my Ubuntu Support Going to Last?”
In order to install Linux, you need to be able to boot to USB (or CD/DVD – with USB being more common these days and many devices not even having CD/DVD drives). The goal of this article is to help you boot to USB or to optical media, so that you can install or repair … Continue reading “How do I ‘Boot to USB’? (Or CD/DVD, if Such is Available)”
There are a number of situations where you may not be sure if your CPU supports 32 or 64 bit Linux. If you want to know, it’s pretty easy to see if it supports 32 or 64 bit. If nothing else, it’s always good to know what your CPU architecture is and thus know which … Continue reading “Is My System Capable of 32 or 64 Bit Linux?”
People have a variety of reasons why they want to disable and remove Snap apps from Ubuntu. It’s relatively easy to disable Snaps and this article shows you how. Let’s start with the basics. What is a Snap? It’s another form of packaging software and Canonical’s Snapcraft page describes it like this: Snaps are app … Continue reading “Disable Ubuntu Snaps”
Once in a while, you’ll come across a piece software that’s only in RPM format. It’s possible to convert RPM to DEB and you may be able to install that software on your DEB-based system. You’ll find that it’s not unusual to come across software packaged in a format that you can’t use. That’s just … Continue reading “Use an RPM on a DEB-based System”
Is your software not updating? Are you getting repository errors when you try to upgrade? There’s a quick and easy way to reset the Ubuntu repositories to the defaults. Ubuntu, like all Linux distros, uses repositories for distributing software. This provides a central location for curated, standardized software that’s almost certain to work on your … Continue reading “Quickly Reset Ubuntu’s Default Repositories”
Your Bash history can be a valuable tool when you mess up and need to retrace your steps to find out what went wrong. It’s in your best interest to keep it from getting cluttered. Some of my readers are fairly new to Linux, so you may not know that you have a Bash history. … Continue reading “Dealing With Duplicates In Your Bash History”
Sometimes old tools are the best, or at least adequate. In this case, we’re talking about HardInfo – a tool that hasn’t been updated in about 7 years, but still does a great job. This is Linux. There are a ton of great applications to detect and list your hardware. Most of them are CLI. … Continue reading “Graphically Examine Hardware Info With HardInfo”
In this article, I will tell you how I use pwgen to generate random passwords. It is a simple command, but comes in surprisingly handy. This being Linux, there are surely other ways to accomplish this task, but this is the method that I use. I’ve been working on a router for the past few … Continue reading “How To: Generate Sufficiently Complex Passwords In The Terminal”
Starting very soon, there will be content posted here. It looks like I’m ahead of schedule and I’ve done all the debugging that I can do without content and users, so tomorrow will be when the first article gets published. The old site was fine, but search engines don’t like that domain and email service … Continue reading “Welcome to Our New Home!”
