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Granted this was done on Ubuntu 22.04, most of the steps will work on other distros as well. Blu-ray players and discs are becoming more popular because of better video resolution of the media, but also the price drops in the hardware. A few years ago, I bought an LG M-DISC Blu-ray player for...

Over the years, I have done quite a few articles on emulators and Virtual Machines (VMs). This program is a variant that seems to do a good job. The major difference on this one is that you do not need the Operating System (OS) to install. You select which OS you want, including which version...

Getting input from the user is a necessary task for most programs. There usually needs to be some input unless the program is completely automated to perform a task. This article is not strictly on getting the information from the user, but managing that information and manipulating the input...

After you have partitions made, you will want to use those partitions to store files on it. Until a partition has a file system, it cannot store files. The File System (FS) provides an organized structure for storing files and information about the files. There are many types of File Systems...

Drauger OS is a gaming Ubuntu-based Operating System (OS) that has a home website of 'https://draugeros.org/'. The current version is 7.6. Strigoi. The OS is streamlined to have less clutter of unneeded apps and concentrate more on gaming. You will not find Office apps or the like. Download...

ScummVM is not a DOS emulator, but it allows you to run DOS games on systems that usually do not support such games. All you need are the data files of the game. ScummVM includes each game's executable (.EXE) file. Once you add the data files, it should all work. The list of games that have...

There are a few ways to print strings to help make the process a little easier. We will look at a few ways to do this task. No matter which way you choose is fine. Everyone may have a preference for a specific method. To explain, there are four methods to print strings: Unformatted with or...

We are nearly done with the LFCS certification articles. All that is left deals with disks. Of course, this is a new area of the LFCS, so if you are using VirtualBox to work through these, you can get rid of the machines you used and start over again. Just create a machine and name it 'Server1'...

Before Linux and even Windows, there was Disk Operating System (DOS), or more specifically Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS). DOS was an 8 and 16-bit Operating System (OS), depending on the processor it was running on, and went through various versions and even knock-offs from other companies, such as IBM...

The image does not exist. It has been changed to 'kalilinix/kali-rolling. You can use the command for 'docker' to get a listing of available images with 'docker search kali'.

There are many emulators for past consoles that are no longer current technology. This emulator is one exception, since the Nintendo Switch is still supported by the company. Of course, this program requires a decently good video card to handle the graphics. Requirements As with all programs...

Functions are a very useful thing in any programming language. A function is a block of code that you can execute over and over with no need to write the code in the program more than once. Most times, you can give the function a name and call it by the name of the function. Types of Functions...

Now that we can create Virtual Machines (VM) on a Linux system, we need to manage those VMs. We will cover controlling VM installation, controlling a VM, resource monitoring, snapshots and cloning a VM. Controlling a VM Install Sometimes we need to control the setup of Virtual Machines to...

HandBrake is a powerful open-source video transcoder that allows users to convert video files into a wide range of formats. While its default settings are sufficient for most basic needs, creating custom presets can significantly enhance the efficiency and quality of your video conversions. In...

Now that we have installed the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), if you have not done this then see LFCS -KVM Installation, we are ready to create Virtual Machines (VM). We have three basic options to install a KVM: ISO file FTP/HTTP/PXE Command-Line Interface (CLI) We will cover these each...

In this article, we will discuss the methods of managing the flow of statements in a program. These methods include: If For While We will also cover two items that are used to exit these flow control items or to bypass an iteration of a loop. Continue Break If Statement An 'if' statement is...

Mesen is a Nintendo emulator (NES Em backwards). The program emulates NES, SNES Game Boy (Color) and PC Engine ROMS. This is for Ubuntu 20.04 and above. Not only is this an emulator, but it also allows for the sprites to be updated to allow for a higher resolution of the original NES 8-bit...

Back in the old days of computers, I remember running DOS 3.3. I had a folder named 'batch' that included all the 'shortcuts' to perform commands by a batch file. Of course, the 'batch' folder was in my environment variable 'PATH'. So, no matter what directory I was in, I could run one of the...

Rescuezilla is a fork of Clonezilla with more ability. You can back up and restore drive and partitions. It is also possible to clone a whole disk, including all partitions, to another disk. Rescuezilla is a Debian based distro of Linux that is an ISO and you can burn it to a USB Stick to be...

In the previous article, Python Basics, we hinted at arithmetic operations. These can include basic math functions, comparative features, and others. We can go over these operators to help understand these programming abilities. Arithmetic Operations As with other programming languages, we...