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LTS stands for long term support. Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is now generally available. An Ubuntu LTS has a commitment from Canonical for ten years support and maintenance, with the initial five years available for free following Ubuntu’s mission. In April, every two years, Canonical release a new LTS where all of the developments from the previous two years accumulate into one up-to-date, feature-rich release. These releases focus on performance enhancement and stability. LTS is what you should be running in large scale enterprises, as general users or businesses unless you particularly need the more quickly but less long lived developer releases.
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Terminal prompt with architecture
Terminal on macOS and Ubuntu Desktop is a power tool and it can be made better. There are lots of shell customisation utilities around but the most useful to me at least in software development and devops, is zsh-powerline which is an implementation of powerline shell which was inspired by the powerline statusline plugin for vim.
For me, modifications must not hurt performance, and should not be distracting. Prompt based elements must be things I really need to know about the current environment right now.
The text colours for me are about the colours of terminals I used in the past at Sun Microsystems.
When you ssh to an different computer with the same zsh environment the prompt changes. Thats what I need.
This prompt shows username, computername, architecture, git branch, exit status of the last command, OS symbol and shell prompt. As you can see when you ssh to an Intel based Mac it changes. Thats what I needed.
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Terminal prompt with architecture
Terminal on macOS and Ubuntu Desktop is a power tool and it can be made better. There are lots of shell customisation utilities around but the most useful to me at least in software development and devops, is zsh-powerline which is an implementation of powerline shell which was inspired by the powerline statusline plugin for vim.
For me, modifications must not hurt performance, and should not be distracting. Prompt based elements must be things I really need to know about the current environment right now.
The text colours are a reminder of my favourite real terminal :)
When you ssh to an different computer with the same zsh environment the prompt displays the username, computername, cpu architecture, git branch and OS symbol.
Git branch is only if you 'cd' into a repo. OS Symbol is green if the last command exited properly, red if not.
Thats what I need to know, and it isn't too distracting.
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Read more: A zsh arch prompt for macOS and Linux (x86_64 i386 or arm64)
In this article, we will walk you through the entire installation process of Ubuntu 24.04, a Long Term Support (LTS) release with five years of support, ensuring that your system receives timely updates and enhancements. We will cover everything from downloading the ISO image to creating bootable media, and finally, the installation steps themselves. If you’re wondering how to get started with Ubuntu 24.04, you’re in the right place. For those seeking to explore Ubuntu or in need of a reliable operating system, Ubuntu 24.04 is a commendable option.
TL:DR – The installation of Ubuntu 24.04 involves downloading the Ubuntu ISO, preparing bootable media, configuring BIOS/UEFI settings, and following through the installation wizard. You'll have to make some choices about apps and proprietary software on the way. Users can expect a robust OS with updates for five years.
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By default Joomla uses the icon assets in /media/system/images/. These are the Joomla logo formatted for use as a favicon. (Like this: 
).
<link href="/media/system/images/joomla-favicon.svg" rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml">
<link href="/media/system/images/favicon.ico" rel="alternate icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
Custom Cassiopeia template favicon
There are a couple of ways of getting custom favicons (Like this: 
) in your new Joomla site based on the Cassiopeia template
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Using a custom ROM from LineageOS, you can install Android 11 on a Samsung Galaxy S5 from 2014! You have to use rotten cryptic tools to install a custom recovery partition on the device before you can install Lineage OS on it. This isn't too difficult provided you aren't afraid of the command line. You install Lineage OS and then Open Google Apps should you want them before rebooting and - voila it works perfectly as far as I can tell - the Android build has none of the Samsung crapware - either the built in obsolescence in these devices is staggering, or the S5 was supremely over specified at the time!
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is a discontinued Android-based smartphone with 4G LTE which was launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in 2014 and generally available in April 2014
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I suppose the number one download for brew is wget which is missing from macOS probably due to its GPL licence which has terms Apple might prefer to avoid bundling directly into macOS.
WGET
wget is a command-line tool used to download files from the internet. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.
Key Features:
- Non-Interactive: Works in the background without needing user interaction, making it ideal for scripts or automation.
- Recursive Downloading: Can mirror entire websites by downloading pages, images, and other linked files.
- Resume Support: Can continue interrupted downloads.
- Flexible Options: Supports proxies, authentication, and rate limiting.
TL:DR – brew install wget
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- Maximum Mac Performance: The Best Apps for Apple Silicon
- Sublime Text for macOS
- Sublime Text on ChromeOS
- Connecting to multiple Git repository providers with SSH
- Grsync - graphical user interface for rsync
- Airport Time Capsule shared Drive for Mac and Linux
- Flutter on macOS, and your first app, in about 15 minutes
- Are Costly Add-Ons Draining Your Microsoft 365 Budget?
- Apple Music Spatial Audio, Dolby Atmos, Lossless audio
- XLD - A lossless audio and CD ripper for macOS
- XRG - A system monitor for macOS
- Replacing Adobe Creative Cloud on Apple Mac computers