Early access to new WebUi - GNS3 2.2.0 alpha 4 upgrade on Linux

GNS3 version 2.2.0 alpha 4 has been released, it gives you early access to the new web-ui with the upgrade of v2.2! Major new features are the WebUi (read only for now), a new GNS3 VM based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Hyper-V support for the GNS3 VM, new symbols (affinity...

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wttr.in - Eye Candy Weather Forecast in Linux Command Line & Browser

I recently came across an eye candy console-oriented weather forecast service tool wttr.in — the right way to check the weather! wttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service that supports various information representation methods like terminal-oriented...

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Failure to download extra data files after installing "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

This package "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" is used to download Microsoft's font files (those files are made freely available by Microsoft) from the Internet and install them. Since, you must accept the EULA of Microsoft to use those font files, those fonts cannot be included in the package like other Free (Free as freedom) packages. Annoying messages...

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Cisco Packet Tracer 7.2.1 Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux

Cisco Packet Tracer v7.2.1 was released in mid 2018, which doesn’t appear to need libicui18n.so.52 unlike CPT v7.1 (The bug was fixed in the latest release and v7.2.1 runs without any issue on Ubuntu 16.04). However, CPT v7.2.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 is unable to locate libpng12. Following solution (QT Libraries, libcu52 and libpng12 installation) fixed...

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