Corporations often use the chat client by Atlassian called Slack. If you are a Slack user, there’s a chance that you might work in software development, or work on the command line a lot. If you prefer to work using text-mode, then there is a libpurple plugin called slack-libpurple that allows you to do just […] The post Use Slack in the Terminal using finch appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

If, like me, you spend a lot of time in the command line, you might find that using your social media / chat apps via the terminal might be beneficial to you. Enter nchat, which provides WhatsApp and Telegram functionality via an ncurses display. It works on Linux as well as Mac (via brew). To […] The post Whatsapp and Telegram in a text mode user interface appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

The documented solution on AWS’s pages are not easy to follow, so here’s a step by step guide! NB it is assumed you have already created the user fred on the EC2/lightsail instance with ‘adduser’ or similar, and it already has a ~/.ssh directory with the appropriate the user permissions. I have also outlined which […] The post How to make an SSH key for AWS Lightsail / EC2 server appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

Intro As Linux system administrators, we continuously delve into the boundless ocean of Linux commands to manage and control systems with precision. Some commands are pretty standard and widely known. However, a few lesser-known Linux power commands can make life significantly easier for sysadmins. In this article, we’ll uncover these hidden gems of Linux commands […] The post The Top 10 Lesser Known Linux Power Commands That You Won’t Be Able to Live Without appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

I used to use insync to access my Google Drive account from the command line because it was reliable, however insync ceased support for their CLI client, so I had to rethink that. I’ve decided to plop with rclone because it’s flexible, lightweight, it works well and it supports over 40 different filesharing platforms, including […] The post rclone: Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, box, DropBox and much more from the CLI appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

Microsoft is not the company that it used to be. Steve Ballmer, the then CEO, said in June of 2001 that “Linux is a cancer” [1]. Microsoft tried for years to thwart the open source model and attacked Linux head-on. However, Microsoft mellowed over the years and eventually admitted they were wrong. These days they […] The post Microsoft’s Linux Distro: CBL-Mariner appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

I’m going to horrify thousands of people out here when I say: I think reddit sucks. Specifically, I hate how horrid it looks. And yes, that’s after the new ‘facelifted’ reddit! The other day, I wanted to print out a page of comments from a subreddit. Before you tell me that it’s 2020 and I […] The post Using Reddit from the console in 2020 appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move to general availability, WSL2 can now be automatically updated via standard Windows Updates. As discussed previously, WSL2 is a change in architecture from WSL 1. […] The post Windows subsystem 2 available for general release in Win 10 2004 appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

A kanban board is a way to visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process. Cards are moved from left to right to show progress and to help coordinate teams performing the work. Kanboards traditionally used post-it notes on […] The post How to install Kanboard in Ubuntu appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more

I’m sure you’ve heard that all the cool kids are playing with orchestration automation these days. But what about using something quick and dirty to get the job done? Pssh allows you to manage multiple hosts in parallel. Read this great guide for a quick how-to: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/running-commands-linux-hosts-using-pssh/. The post How to Run Commands on Multiple Linux Hosts Using PSSH appeared first on The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide ..read more