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Type man tar for more information, but this command should do the trick: tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz To explain a little further, tar collected all the files into one package, community_images.tar. The gzip program applied compression, hence the gz extension. So the command does a couple things: f: this must be the last flag of the command, and the tar f ile must be immediately after. It ...
Over time, it's easy to lose track of which ports are open to which hosts. Is there another way to test if a port on a remote system is open – using a Linux system with a limited number of packages installed, and telnet is not available?
In following the modularity of Linux, we will look at the Bootloader. A Bootloader is software that the hardware loads the Linux kernel into memory. The system Bootloader is the bridge between...
Use chown to change ownership and chmod to change rights. As Paweł Karpiński said, use the -R option to apply the rights for all files inside of a directory too. Note that both these commands just work for directories too. The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory. For example sudo chown -R username:group directory will change ...
I have installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, but whenever I turn my PC on, it goes into the GRUB shell, I don't know why. I also don't know how to boot GUI Linux Mint from shell.
The WindowsFX, also called LinuxFX, strangely combines Linux and Windows. The newer version, running Ubuntu 22.04 looks and feels like Windows 11. WindowsFX has extra features that make it feel like Windows. There is a version that looks like Windows 10 as well. Let’s look into this, because...
I work in a Windows environment where I have to login to a Windows domain at the login dialog, so that I can authenticate myself to the network. I want to use Linux on my machine but I do not know...
Is there any way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from the terminal without using any third-party applications like YUMI, Unetbootin, Startup Disk Creator, etc. I tried to create a boo...
