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Learn how to use the Linux tail command to view log files to help you effectively troubleshoot

The KDE devs enabled the famous backports PPA for you to install/upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.24 in Kubuntu 21.10. Here's how.

Managers of open source communities have to be aware of the 5 levels of transparency that they can provide. These 5 levels of transparency are important for building a thriving open source community. This article describes each level, its goals, and why they are important.

Seco unveiled a Linux-ready “Icarus” Pico-ITX SBC and “Atlas” Qseven module built on Elkhart Lake with up to 16GB soldered LPDDR4-3200 IBECC and triple display support. Seco recently launched an Elkhart Lake-based “Halley” SMARC module. Seco Edge, the embedded unit of Italian hardware manufacturer Seco, has announced two products that run Yocto-flavored Linux or Win […]

Although its popularity has been tempered by languages like Python, Lua, and Go, Perl was one of the primary utilitarian languages on Unix and Linux for 30 years. It remains an important and powerful component in many open source systems today. If you haven't used Perl much, then you may be surprised by how helpful it can be for many tasks. This is especially true if you deal with large amounts of text in your day-to-day work.

Engintron is a free WHM/cPanel plugin that can be used for installing the Nginx web server as a reverse proxy of the default Apache webserver.

Apache Maven is a free, open-source project management software that manages the creation, reporting, and documentation of a project from a central location. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Apache Maven on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Sometimes human beings do difficult things just because we thrive when there is a good challenge. This is why we climb mountains, play guitars, surf (in real waves), run marathons, and the like. OK, some do it professionally, but to take on major challenges, you really need to enjoy the activity for its own sake, not just when it leads to victory.

We review the Peppermint OS 2022-02-02 release in terms of performance & stability and give you an overview of the exciting changes of this version.

A status page system is software that lets you communicate incidents, schedule maintenances and downtimes with your customers.

An Azure storage account is used to store data objects such as blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. Data stored in the Storage Account is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS and is durable and highly available.

Even though Thunderbolt 3 and 4 have proven to work well with Windows and macOS, Linux users are still experiencing issues when using Thunderbolt on certain distributions. This post will give you a detailed guide on using both versions of Thunderbolt on Ubuntu and how to solve any arising errors.

A zombie or a defunct process in Linux is a process that has been completed, but its entry still remains in the process table due to lack of correspondence between the parent and child processes. These zombie processes might accumulate, in large numbers, on your system and affect its performance. In that case, you might have to kill these zombies manually through the ways and commands described in this tutorial.

RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network.

Darktable 3.8.1 has been released today as a bugfix update and the first point release in the darktable 3.8 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

This tutorial explains what is Bottles, how to install Bottles and how to manage and run windows software with Bottles in Linux.

Avalue’s 15-inch and 21.5-inch “SPC-series” panel PCs combine an Apollo Lake SoC with IP66 and IP69K waterproofing, M12 ports, acid-alkali and bacteria resistance, and sunlight-readable screens. Avalue announced a pair of rugged SPC-series panel PCs. The 15-inch SPC-1533-B1 and 21-inch SPC-2133-B1 support Linux, Android x86 8.1, or Win 10, running on a quad-core, 1.5GHz/2.3GHz Celeron J3455 with 10W TDP from Intel’s Apollo Lake generation. The mainboard is Avalue’s EMX-APLP thin Mini-ITX board.

Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization is a lean data integration solution that provides easy, real-time, and unified data access across disparate sources to multiple applications and users. JBoss Data Virtualization makes data spread across physically distinct systems - such as multiple databases, XML files, and even Hadoop systems - appear as a set of tables in a local database.

Object storage is the storage and retrieval of unstructured blobs of data and metadata using an HTTP API. Minio is a popular open-source, self-hosted, Amazon S3 compatible object storage server. In this tutorial, you will install the Minio server on a Ubuntu 20.04 server, protect it using an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, and access it using a command-line client.

Dwm is a minimal window manager. However, this means that some features are not present. Here we discuss some useful patches for dwm.