Category: Ubuntu

How to Install Wine on Ubuntu

Wine is a unique piece of software that allows you to run software and games built for Windows on a Linux system like Ubuntu.

This software acts as a layer that sits between Ubuntu and the windows application. It will translate Windows system calls into a system call that Ubuntu understands.

Wine also differs from virtualization software like VirtualBox as you do not need to run a full version of Windows on top of Ubuntu.

Within this guide, we will show you how to install the latest version of Wine for Ubuntu.

Source: How to Install Wine on Ubuntu – Pi My Life Up

Czkawka – Find & Remove Duplicates, Empty, Broken Files in Linux

Czkawka is a simple, fast and easy to use software to remove unnecessary files from your machine.

Czkawka is a free and open-source software written in memory safe Rust. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Due to advanced algorithms and multi-threading, it is amazingly fast!

Source: Czkawka – Find & Remove Duplicates, Empty, Broken Files in Linux | UbuntuHandbook

Free up Disk Space – Clear Systemd Journal Logs in Ubuntu 20.04

Going to free up Ubuntu system disk space? Try clearing the systemd journal logs, it may free up a few GB of space.
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You can also edit the configuration file to limit the journal log disk usage (100 MB for example).

Source: Free up Disk Space – Clear Systemd Journal Logs in Ubuntu 20.04 | UbuntuHandbook

How To Sandbox Processes With Systemd On Ubuntu 20.04

Sandboxing is a computer security technique that focuses on isolating a program or process from parts of a system that it does not need to interact with during normal operation. In this tutorial you will run through a practical demonstration of how to use systemd’s sandboxing techniques on Ubuntu 20.04 for an efficient workflow to implement and to test these techniques. Any process that runs on a Linux system that uses systemd can be made more secure with these techniques.

Source: How To Sandbox Processes With Systemd On Ubuntu 20.04 | DigitalOcean

Installation & Configuration of ClamAV Antivirus on Ubuntu 18.04 (with On-Access Scanning)

In this article, I’ll be sharing and documenting what I’ve learned during a recent situation where I had to install, setup, and configure ClamAV to run on Ubuntu 18.04 systems using real-time or as ClamAV calls it “on-access scanning”.

Source: Installation & Configuration of ClamAV Antivirus on Ubuntu 18.04 (Aaron Brighton)

Rescuezilla 1.0.6 Released: Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro For System Backup

Rescuezilla is a Ubuntu-based Linux distro, and a fork of the old and abandoned ‘Redo Backup & Restore’ application. It is a complete system recovery solution that you can use for several purposes, such as full system backup, bare metal recovery, partition editing, undeleting files, and web browsing.

Source: Rescuezilla 1.0.6 Released: Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro For System Backup (Fossbytes)