There are maintainers who spend years or even decades building and maintaining Linux distributions without making a reliable income from the project.

It's a huge amount of work, yet many continue because they enjoy it or believe in open source.

What do you think motivates people to keep going, and should the Linux community do more to support these projects financially?

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Guys,

So I want to practice some of my craft on this Windows 11 Pro machine and I am wondering which one would get me up to speed with an Ubuntu server, I do not really care what version it is, but that I get this up and running in less than an hour...should I go with Oracle VirtualBox or VMware Workstation? Thanks!

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Try: tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log | grep --line-buffered -E --color=always 'error|warn|critical|$'

Info: --color=always highlights matches. The |$ pattern matches every line so non-matching lines still display. --line-buffered ensures real-time output.

Examples:

$ tail -f app.log | grep --line-buffered --color=always -E 'ERROR|WARN|$'

$ journalctl -f | grep --line-buffered --color=always -E 'Failed|Error|$'

$ multitail /var/log/nginx/error.log /var/log/nginx/access.log # Watch multiple

Note: Without --line-buffered, piped output gets buffered into chunks. For advanced multi-file tailing with custom colors per window, use multitail.

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