The Tilix terminal emulator has existed for a very long time, but it’s very underrated despite being so good. Even for me, I’ve only recently heard about it from one of our readers named “Claude LaFrenière”, so a shout-out to him. In recent times, you
Jaq (pronounced like “Jacques”) is a Michael Farber and community effort to increase speed, correctness, and simplicity compared to its predecessor, the jq (JSON data processing) tool. At the moment, it promises to be 30 times faster and already provides improved conditional behavior, resolves crashes,
The “acct” or “psacct” are two of the best-known tools for assisting system administrators in keeping track of other users’ activity on their system and what resources are being consumed. Prior to moving further into the explanation, let me clarify that both of these tools
If you are a penetration tester, network administrator, or security professional diving into the realm of WiFi pentesting, your journey will involve enabling monitor mode on your Network Interface Card (NIC). In this article, we go over what monitor and managed modes are in your
“fzf” (or fuzzy finder) is a small, blazingly fast, and cross-platform command-line utility that allows you to perform interactive or dynamic searches via an interactive interface for effortless navigation and selection from matching options. It’s very flexible, and most often you will use it with
“g” is a free and open-source cross-platform alternative to the ls command, offering more advanced features than any other alternative, such as what “exa” can provide. 😮 The developer named this tool “g” because it’s written in Go, and “g” is simply easy to remember.
Play is a simple command-line utility that provides you with a playground to experiment with programs like awk, grep, jq, sed, and yq, particularly beneficial during your early days in Linux. I’ve tried and tested the mentioned commands for a while, and to be honest,
Recently, we wrote an article on DistroBox showcasing the advantages of using it, in which one was trying out the latest Linux desktop environment (DE) release before it officially arrives. In today’s article, we’ll try the latest Gnome 45, officially accessible for Ubuntu 23.10, on
As you all know, Linux is famous for its multiple variants in the name of distributions, each offering unique software repositories, package managers, desktop environments, release cycles, stability, and much more. The well-known Linux distributions are Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, and Arch, with the major
uv is a Rust-based Python installer and resolver designed to replace “pip“, “pip-tools“, and “virtualenv” commands, offering great 10-100x speed and advanced features like dependency version overrides and alternative resolution strategies. It has already been tested at scale against the top 10,000 PyPI packages, supporting
Maxim Dounin, one of the longtime core developer of the NGINX web server, left the company due to a different ideology and announced a separate fork of the project named FreeNginx. In 2019, when NGINX was acquired by the US networking vendor F5, there was
Tbmk (a.k.a. Terminal Bookmarker) is a simple yet effective tool that can elevate your command-line experience to the next level by reusing frequently used commands through bookmarking. The usage is pretty simple: what you need to do first is bookmark the common commands that you
