If you've encountered the error message "Syntax error: redirection unexpected" while running a script in Ubuntu Linux, you're not alone. This error...
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Create Linux VM in Microsoft Azure
There are many reasons to create a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure; like hosting a web server, database, or many other uses for VMs. It's...
IBM Should Spinoff Cloud as Separate Business Named Red Hat Cloud
What if IBM is spinning off the wrong business?... Amongst the growing pressures to compete in the Cloud business, IBM has announced plans to...
Microsoft Edge Browser Coming to Linux
Microsoft has been increasingly supporting Linux, and the latest application coming to Linux is the Microsoft Edge web browser. About a year ago we...
Install the New Windows PowerToys
Windows PowerToys is back, and it rocks! Many of us have been reliving the "old days", this week as Windows 95 turned 25. I loved Windows 95 when it...
Sysinternals ProcDump for Linux
Sysinternals are very widely used tools from Microsoft in the Windows world, and now the ProcDump utility has been ported over to Linux as an Open...
Run Office 365 Apps on Ubuntu with an Open Source Web App Wrapper
Microsoft has already brought Microsoft Teams to Linux as the first Microsoft Office app to officially be supported on Linux. We are still waiting...
Add New Root User to Ubuntu Linux Server using Bash
When installing Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, a root user will be created. However, there are many times when you need to create additional users...
Check Hyper-V (Intel VT-x) Virtualization Support on macOS Computer
Many Developers and other IT Professionals use macOS (via a Macbook Pro or other Apple computer) and do need to run Windows on their machine under...
Windows Gets Package Manager with winget CLI Utility
Microsoft released the new Windows Package Manager (winget) as an open source, community driven package manager for installing, updating,...
Should Microsoft acquire Canonical / Ubuntu?
Microsoft's adoption of Linux today is something that appeared to never be possible only a few years ago. It was not even twenty years ago when...
Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being...
Upgrading Ubuntu Linux Version
There are several ways to upgrade a Linux installation. With Ubuntu, the recommended upgrade method is to use the do-release-upgrade command. This...
Jumpstart: Open the Network Connections Tab in Windows
TLDR: Start-->Run-->ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows...
Linux Lift and Shift Hands-on Lab – Microsoft Cloud Workshop
In this hands-on lab, you will migrate an on-premises based help desk application called OsTicket, to Azure. This will be a two-phase project to...
What is an Ubuntu LTS Release? Long Term Support
Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions available. The Ubuntu Linux operating system has releases published regularly on an interval...
Windows 7 End of Life Jan. 14, 2020: Is your Enterprise prepared?
Windows 7 was originally released approximately 10 years ago already on October 22, 2009. With the planned lifespan of Windows 7 (as is common with...
Microsoft Teams is First Office App for Linux
It may not be the "Year of the Linux Desktop" yet, but Microsoft has released its first Office App for Linux. Microsoft Team is now available in...
How to check the Ubuntu Server Version Installed/Running
With the increasing use of Linux, and specifically Ubuntu Server, in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, it's getting more important to know what version...
Microsoft Linux Conference WSLconf Coming March 2020
Microsoft announced they are going to be hosting the first Microsoft Linux conference, named WSLconf 1, on March 10 - 11, 2020. The new WSLconf (aka...