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Plex Media Server is a digital media player that can host multiple online content channels from non-local sources. This tutorial shows you how to install Plex Media server on Debian 11.

oday, the Zephyr® Project announced that Blues Wireless, IRNAS, and Sternum have joined as Silver members just as the real-time operating system (RTOS) has hit widespread adoption in products. Members such as Google, Meta, Oticon […]

Pydio Cells also known as a Pydio is an open-source file-sharing and synchronization application written in the Golang language. This guide will explain how to install the Pydio file-sharing application on Ubuntu 22.04.

This tutorial describes how to limit CPU usage in Ubuntu. I will use CPU-limit utility for this purpose. Cpulimit is a tool which limits the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). It is useful to control batch jobs when you don't want them to eat too many CPU cycles. The goal of cpulimit is to prevent a process from running for more than a specified time ratio. It does not change the nice value or other scheduling priority settings, but the real CPU usage.

Fork is an open-source content management system for beginners and professionals. It is designed to create a user-friendly environment to build, monitor, and update your website. This tutorial will show you how to install Fork CMS with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 22.04.

The SSH protocol enables three major classes of remote server activities: a) command execution (including a login shell), b) network forwarding and manipulation, and c) file transfer.

This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.

GlusterFS is a free, open-source and software-defined distributed storage developed by Gluster Inc, and then by Redhat. It provides interfaces for object, block, and file storage and is used for high data-intensive workloads such as cloud storage, CDN, and media streaming.

Raspberry Pi announced today the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe designed to interface with RP2040-based targets or any other Arm-based microcontroller with Serial Wire Debug 3.3V I/O port. This new debug kit has been launched for just $12.00. The product announcement mentions that this product is an all-in-one USB-to-debug kit, meaning it provides all the required […]

Linux is now ready to run on modern Macs.

Laravel is a free and open-source PHP framework that provides a set of tools and resources to build modern PHP applications. This guide will use Docker Compose to containerize a Laravel application for development.

A swap file enables an operating system (OS) to utilize hard disk space to simulate additional memory. This tutorial shows how to set up a swap file on Ubuntu Linux. The steps have been tested in recent Ubuntu versions, incl. Ubuntu 22.04.

Brotli is an open-source compression algorithm created by Google. It can be used as an alternative to Gzip, Zopfli, and Deflate. This tutorial will show you how to install Brotli with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

The W6100-EVB-PICO is a compact embedded device integrating the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and the WIZnet W6100 hardwired internet controller chip. This board provides up to 30x GPIOs, 1x RJ45 port and it supports internet protocols such as TCP, UDP, IPv6, IPv4, etc. Unlike the W6100-EVB board which is based on a STM32F103VCT6 Cortex-M3, the […]

Don't rush in if you don't need it – there may be more cons than pros Canonical has made a Real-time edition of Ubuntu 22.04 available on x86 and Arm… but only to Ubuntu Pro customers, and there are some potential issues you should know about.…

The init system many love to hate intros tool to create Unified Kernel Image files. The first systemd release of 2023 is here, and it introduces a brand spanking new tool for building Unified Kernel Image (UKI) files.…

Dislike those messages about Ubuntu Pro? Then you won't like this Ubuntu and its various remixes remain free distros, but it's getting harder to remove the messages about the paid Ubuntu Pro offering… which is by design, and it's not going away.…

Zabbix is a free and open-source software used for monitoring several IT components, including networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. This tutorial will show you how to install the Zabbix monitoring server on Debian 11.

iostat, also known as input/output statistics, is a popular Linux system monitoring tool that can be used to collect statistics of input and output devices. It allows users to identify performance issues of local disk, remote disk, and system information. This tutorial will teach us how to install and use iostat on Ubuntu.

Concrete5 is a free and open-source content management system for publishing Internet content. This post will show you how to install Concrete5 CMS with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Debian 11.