Fwbackups – How to Install and Backup Your Data on Ubuntu

Introduction fwbackups is a feature-rich user backup tool that allows you to backup your essential documents anytime, anyplace using a simple, powerful interface with support for scheduled backups and remote backups. There are a lot of features of fwbackups, some are mentioned below: With this interface, creating new backups or restoring documents from a previous […]

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Linux wget Command with Examples

GNU Wget is a free tool that allows you to download files from the internet using the command-line. Wget has a lot of features, including the ability to download multiple files, limit bandwidth, resume downloads, ignore SSL checks, download in the background, mirror a website, and more. This article demonstrates the different options available using

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tty (/dev/tty ) vs pts (/dev/pts) in Linux

tty is simply the ports connected to the computer like a mouse, keyboard. pts are pseudo terminals that are SSH or telnet connections. You can understand tty and pts as connection channels to which Linux systems communicate with the client. Both are responsible for keeping sessions alive and sending packets. In this article, I’ll give

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Accessible by design: How we are designing for accessibility at Canonical

In this blog post, I will talk about some of the most important considerations when it comes to building UIs that are accessible by design and how we are approaching this challenge at Canonical to continuously improve the accessibility of Vanilla, our open source design system and CSS framework. Background When I joined Canonical in

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How to Install Discord on Manjaro Linux

What is Discord? Discord is a popular, free, and web-based communication application. It supports VoIP and instant messaging. Users can communicate with voice calls, video calls, and texts. The software was initially designed to be used as a gaming platform for mobile games where players can communicate about gaming strategies. But now, Discord is no

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Reduce your method calls by 99.9% by replacing Thread#pass with Queue#pop

When doing multi-threaded work in Ruby, there are a couple of ways to control the execution flow within a given thread. In this article, I will be looking at Thread#pass and Queue#pop and how understanding each of them can help you drastically optimize your applications. Thread#pass – what it is and how does it work

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All the Ways to Install and Uninstall Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu

Introduction If you identify as a programmer and developer and have worked with an integrated development environment (IDE), you are probably well aware of the popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is a code editor . End-users can take advantage of various development, debugging, and testing features, including embedded Git control, syntax highlighting,

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Pass for Ubuntu

It’s rather inconvenient to memorize passwords or to keep them written in a little notebook. This is where password managers come in. A password manager is a piece of software that manages passwords. There are various types of password managers, some store passwords online while others are installed locally. In this tutorial, we will learn

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Ubuntu introduces the Ubuntu Security Guide to ease DISA-STIG compliance

January 17th: London, UK – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds, now offers the Ubuntu Security Guide tooling for compliance with the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The new automated tooling builds on Canonical’s track record of designing Ubuntu for

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CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of systems that need to comply with that benchmark would wish that this process is easily usable and automatable. Why is that? Manual configuration of such a large number of rules leads to

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