Category: Linux

How to install and use Puppeteer in an Incus container

Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …

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How to install and set up Incus on a cloud server

Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …

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Migrating to Incus from LXD

Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …

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How to upgrade your Scaleway server

You have a Scaleway Virtual Private Server (VPS) and you are considering upgrading your installed Linux distribution. Perhaps you have been notified by Scaleway to upgrade an old Linux version. The email asks you to upgrade but does not give you the necessary information on how to upgrade or how to avoid certain pitfalls. What …

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A gentle introduction to security fuzzing and the Advanced Fuzzing League++ (afl++)

Writing software is similar to translating from one language to another. Specifically, it is similar to translating from your native language to some other language. You are translating to that other language so that you can help those others do some task for you. You might not understand this other language very well, and some …

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timg, a text mode image viewer and video player

Yes, you read it right. timg is a text mode image viewer and can also play videos. But, but, how is that possible? timg uses suitable Unicode characters and also the colour support that is available in many terminal emulators. timg is developed by Henner Zeller, and in 2017 I wrote a blog post about …

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