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Upgrading to the latest Linux Kernel with Mainline - Mainline Interface
Installing the latest Linux Kernel in Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer software

Installing the latest Linux Kernel in Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer software

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Hi everyone, Today, I´d like to show you how to install the latest Linux Kernel in Ubuntu. There’s a software called Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer that allow us to do exactly this. Linux works with the Linux Kernel, and that means that Ubuntu uses it, of course. The latest stable version of Ubuntu: 22.04, uses the Linux Kernel version 5.15, but with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer, we can install up to the current 5.19-rc8 version. Note that this version…

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Resizing and Watermarking images with Python and PIL

Resizing and Watermarking images with Python and PIL

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing how to resize and watermark an image using Python and the PIL library. This is very simple once I went through a few issues I experienced myself and a deprecation warning. This code is based on the code from the following page: How to Watermark Images w/Python (PIL) I have recently switched to Ubuntu Linux and am looking for alternative software to those I normally use in Windows. To watermark and resize my…

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Quick fix for Ubuntu WSL failing to update because of systemd

Quick fix for Ubuntu WSL failing to update because of systemd

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Hi everyone, I’m a user of the Windows 10 WSL feature, where I run the Ubuntu distribution and always install the latest versions. I like to keep my packages up to date. Unfortunately, the latest Ubuntu release, 21.04 was not installed correctly and whenever I tried to update the system packages, it would error out when setting up systemd. The solution to this seem to be a quick one. Turns out, the file libsystemd-shared-247.so was there, in the /usr/lib/systemd folder:…

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Installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) before the official release

Installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) before the official release

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Hi everyone, Today, I’ll guide you through the steps of installing Node.js 10.x on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) which is stated to be officially released on April 23, 2020. Right now, installing Node.js using the NodeSource Node.js official repositories do not work because they do not support unreleased versions of Ubuntu. You may think of using a previous Ubuntu repository in order to install Node.js, but this will actually not work. This is because Ubuntu 20.04 renamed the Python 2 packages…

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How To Install and Configure BOINC in the PINE 64 Single Board Computer

How To Install and Configure BOINC in the PINE 64 Single Board Computer

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Hi everyone! On May 6, 2016 I received in my mail the PINE 64 Single Board Computer I backed up a few months on Kickstarter. My Pledge was for the PINE 64 2GB edition. First thing I did was to download and write the Ubuntu Xenial Longsleep build image to my 16GB MicroSD card (The image is almost 8GB in size). Get the Pine64 builds here: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A64_Software_Release Next think I did was to boot up the PINE 64, and the…

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