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Most Linux users are often unaware of the internal working of the operating system. You might be running Linux commands on the shell for a long time, but have you ever wondered what's happening behind the scenes when you hit Enter? By the end, you'll have a brief understanding of how the shell processes the typed command in Linux.

The one-stop shop approach by DevOps darling GitLab appears to have attracted an Initial Public Offering price of $77, giving the loss-making biz a potential valuation of $11bn. GitLab finally filed for an IPO in September and this week upped the estimated price per share to between $66 and $69. The eventual price has turned out to be $77, well above the initial $55 to $60 first estimated.

Docker is an open-source application that provides lightweight operating-system-level virtualization through the use of containers. It is a kind of virtualization technology that is specially designed to easily develop and deploy applications inside of neatly packaged virtual containerized environments. Docker containers are in essence a set of software packages that run as one application that’s isolated from others. We can deploy it to any machine without any compatibility issues. By using this, the software stays system agnostic, simpler to use, less work to develop, and easy to maintain.

The Document Foundation announced today the release of LibreOffice 7.2.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 7.2 open-source office suite series.

PHP Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Composer on Debian 11. All the steps should work on other Debian-based distributions as well.

The 25th-anniversary edition - KDE Plasma 5.23 is released with brand-new features and performance updates. Here's what's new.

The Ubuntu Unity team released today Ubuntu Unity 21.10 as the latest version of their unofficial Ubuntu flavor featuring the good old Unity desktop environment.

Google has added support for workloads running in virtual machines to its Anthos hybrid Kubernetes platform. "While we have seen many customers make the leap to containerization, some are not quite ready to move completely off of virtual machines," wrote Google Application Modernization Platform vice-presidents Jeff Reed and Chen Goldberg.

Jenkins is an open-source continuous build system. In this guide, we walk you through the process of installing and configuring a Jenkins server on a Rocky Linux 8 machine. This guide is also applicable for other Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux OS.

You’re in the news. But not with the headline you want. You’re not getting attention because of your choice of text editor or the number of spaces you use to indent code blocks. However motivating those preferences are for you and me, the non-technical world sees them as private choices. You find your code in the headlines for a different and unpleasant reason: open source dependency management.

Recently I was invited to present on free and open resources that are available on the web. This presentation was part of a local effort to keep our community working—sponsored by the Foster Center at St. Bonaventure University near my home. Some of the resources I shared were not open source and merely cost $0, but many of the tools were also open source.

Canonical released today Ubuntu 21.10 for download as the latest version of their popular Linux-based operating system for personal computers, servers, and cloud computing.

Some people will do anything for a speed boost, prying the lids off expensive i9s and subjecting them to all manner of chilly chemical concoctions to drag every last megahertz out of the silicon. We’ve not seen anybody do such an extreme overclock with a Raspberry Pi before, but there's a first time for everything. Claude Schwarz has overclocked his Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to an extraordinary 3 GHz.

The KDE team announced the stable release of KDE Plasma 5.23 with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here, in this quick guide, we give you the steps to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.23 from 5.22.

Serverless computing is getting a kick in the pants as TriggerMesh goes open source under the Apache license.

The wait is over. The brand new release of Ubuntu 21.10 ‘Impish Indri’ has hit the download mirrors. Let’s check out what’s new!

The developers behind the rolling-release KaOS Linux distribution released today KaOS 2021.10 as an updated installation and live media for the month of October 2021 featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop environment.

The Cockpit is a free and open-source server management application sponsored by Red Hat. In this post, we will show you how to install and use Cockpit on Debian 11.

Even the best programmers can create programming bugs. Depending on what your program does, these bugs could introduce security vulnerabilities, cause the program to crash, or create unexpected behavior. The C programming language sometimes gets a bad reputation because it is not memory safe like more recent programming languages, including Rust. But with a little extra code, you can avoid the most common and most serious C programming bugs.

We have long advised Web users to look for HTTPS and the lock icon in the address bar of their favorite browser (Firefox!) before typing passwords or other private information into a website.