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Applying mathematical concepts to FOSS deployments provides new and interesting ways of understanding the interrelated nature of open source software.

Good news for Ubuntu users as they can now install the latest and greatest Linux 5.17 kernel series on their distributions, or a derivative system. Here’s how!

The Snap package manager is a modern package manager in Linux that allows you to install Snap packages across a wide range of Linux distributions and versions. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use Snap Package Manager on Alma Linux 8.

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It allows the user to examine data from a live network, or from a capture file on disk. Wireshark can be used as a simple network troubleshooting tool, as well as for security analysis and software development.

Linux Kernel 5.17 is released with better hardware support and core module improvements. Here's a quick summary of the new features with download and installation details.

Google Keep is a note-taking service included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

Chances are your code looks like crap, is hard to read, and hard to understand. There… I’ve said it. Sorry if that sounded harsh, but it’s the painful truth. Writing readable code is difficult. I’ve seen too much code in my career that was written so badly that I had to throw it away and redo the entire project. And the most painful fact is that this code was not written by beginners either! Writing nice, readable code takes time and effort, sure. But it’s also a matter of learning the right habits. With a few simple tools and some tweaks to your coding style, you can improve your code quality ten-fold without much effort.

Mosquitto is an open-source message broker that uses the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Protocol. The protocol is designed to provide lightweight communication to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this tutorial, you will install Mosquitto and set up the broker to use SSL to protect communications.

Linus Torvalds suggests version 5.18 will be a little larger, hopefully also warm, fuzzy, low-drama Linus Torvalds has released version 5.17 of the Linux kernel.…

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install TeamViewer on Debian 11 Bullseye.

One of the many fundamental things to know as a server administrator is the function and port number used by some common services. This article takes a look at common port numbers and their associated services, and which transport protocol they use.

Linus Torvalds today announced the release and general availability of Linux 5.17 as the latest and greatest kernel series for Linux-based operating systems adding new features and improving hardware support.

Grep can be piped with other commands. For example, you can pipe cat and grep together to search strings from files and display them on the screen.

Today, you will learn to use the grep command with advanced examples.

This tutorial gives you some easy steps to customize GNOME Desktop with a clean look with minimal effort. Here's how.

Asahi Linux is a project and community dedicated to bringing Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, beginning with the 2020 M1 Mac Mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. Except for the recently launched Mac Studio, this initial alpha release of Asahi Linux is compatible with M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max hardware.

The Linux Mint project has announced version 5 of its Debian edition, code-named Elsie. Linux Mint is one of the longest-running and most polished distros downstream of Ubuntu, and really took off after Ubuntu switched to the controversial Unity desktop with 11.04. Around that time, Mint 12 retained a Windows-like look and feel that later evolved into the Cinnamon desktop.

Mixtile’s “Core 3568” module runs the hybrid Android/Linux Mixtile OS on a quad -A55 RK3568. The module powers a 3.5-inch “Edge 2” SBC with M.2, mini-PCIe, and PCie 2.0 plus an optional enclosure (Edge 2 Kit). Earlier this month while covering the cluster-oriented, octa-core RK3588 based Mixtile Blade 3 Pico-ITX SBC, we saw that Mixtile […]

Recently, I installed a VMware workstation on a fresh Debian installation. After that, when I ran the VMware workstation to create a new virtual machine, I got the error message: Build environment error! A required application is missing, and Modconfig can not continue. XZ Check the log for more details.

Participants of the Phaidracon 2021 roundtable on open source and academia recently discussed how open source delivers new or additional value to the academic space and its specific role regarding the long-term preservation of scholarly data.

Want to use Linux on your Chromebook? Check out these eight distributions that offer better features and enhanced performance than Chrome OS.