It's great to see that Oracle VirtualBox is still being actively developed, not just maintained.
I have downloaded the latest beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 6.0 release, and it feels like a nice refresh of interface and functionality.
Unix/Linux tutorials for beginners
It's great to see that Oracle VirtualBox is still being actively developed, not just maintained.
I have downloaded the latest beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 6.0 release, and it feels like a nice refresh of interface and functionality.
I'm pretty used to how ls command shows pretty colorized output on most modern Linux distros, but somehow its default behaviour in MacOS is still plain white – no different colours.
I decided to look for command line option to change that, and sure enough – ls command in MacOS has -G option for colorizing output.
So, instead of running this:
$ ls /etc
you'll run this:
$ ls -G /etc
Check out the different it makes below!
If you like this enough, I suggestt you make an alias for ls -G:
$ alias ls='ls -G'
what this does is you can run ls, but your bash shell will be recognizing it as alias name and running ls -G instead. Any additional command line options will work, of course:
To make this permanent, add ls alias to your .bash_profile:
$ echo "alias ls='ls -G'" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
What this will do is any new Terminal windows you open on your Mac will have the ls command alias preconfigured, so you'll always have the output colorized.
This post talks about VMware Tools and Open VM Tools – packages that help you improve performance and integration of your Unix-like virtual machines in VMware environments.
While you probably know that Raspbian is the official OS for Raspberry Pi systems, it's not the only operating system you can use.
In fact, most of Raspberry Pi beginners start with NOOBS – New Out Of Box Software, which is an installer you can download or buy on an SD/microSD card from most of Raspberry Pi vendors.
In addition to this, there's now a Raspberry Pi Desktop – special distribution that allows you to try Raspbian OS inside a virtual machine or using live USB environment.
New Linux users often get puzzled by the "mkdir: cannot create directory" errors when taking first steps and trying to learn basics of working with files and directories. In this short post I'll show the two most common types of this mkdir error and also explain how to fix things so that you no longer get these errors.