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• Git Basic in 4 Mins — A quick and easy video guide to get into Git and GitHub. It covers the basic commands and workflow.

• Linux Commands 101 — An open-source GitHub eBook with 101 Linux commands that everyone should know, complete with it’s command options and brief descriptions.

• 7 Amazing CLI Tools — Showcases CLI tools like fzf (fuzzy finder), bat (cat with syntax highlighting), eza (ls with more features), zoxide (cd to a visited directory before), and more, that would 10x your productivity.

• VirtualBox Shared Folder — This is an alternative for SCP transfer files, where you can have a folder shared between your host OS (in my case Windows 11) and Debian in VirtualBox.

  This is the example, where I sync my Windows’ Downloads folder with Debian’s ~/windownloads folder:

  OS	Folder
  Windows 11
  Debian

• Oh My Posh — A super customizable prompt theme engine for your terminal. You make your own theme with extra info like time, git status, used language version, device battery, execution time, and much more. Or, just choose from hundreds of available themes.

  Peep my custom theme for my Debian and Ubuntu:

  Debian	Ubuntu

  Both shows the following:

  • Current OS or Linux distro icon
  • Current directory, limited to 3 levels
  • Git status, branch, and dirty status
  • How many files are changed, added, or deleted
  • How many commits ahead or behind the remote
  • Merge conflict status
  • Current user and host
  • Current battery percentage
  • Version of the used language (e.g. Node.js, Python, Ruby, etc.)

• Linux Directories Explained in 100 Seconds — A quick video guide to understand the Linux directory structure in 100 seconds, so you know where’s what and know how to navigate.

• Micro CLI Text Editor — Micro is a highly customizable, easy-to-use terminal text editor that works like a regular text editor with familiar keybindings (copy, paste, undo, redo, etc.), featuring multiple cursors, syntax highlighting, Lua-powered plugins, mouse support, and a built-in terminal emulator.

• Automatically Login to Debian (via PowerShell SSH — Automatically login to Debian without having to insert your password every time.

• malloc vs mmap — Discussion on the difference between malloc and mmap in C.

• What is LFS for anyway? — This discussion on Quora may help satisfy your curiosity about why anyone would build Linux From Scratch.

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