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In the very early days of DOS, the standard editor was a no-frills line editor called Edlin. Tim Paterson wrote the original Edlin for the first version of DOS, then called 86-DOS and later branded PC-DOS and MS-DOS. Paterson has commented that he meant to replace Edlin eventually, but it wasn't until ten years later that MS-DOS 5 (1991) replaced Edlin with Edit, a full-screen editor. read more

As a Linux user, you’re probably already familiar with longtime staples like gzip, bzip2, and xz. There’s a newcomer in the compression arena. Zstandard (often abbreviated to zstd) was released in 2015 and since then has risen sharply in popularity.

Classical computing is based on bits. Zeros and ones. This isn't because there's some inherent advantage to a binary logic system over logic systems with more states—or even over analog computers. But on-off switches are easy to make and, with modern semiconductor technology, we can make them very small and very cheap. read more

Redmine is a free and open-source project management application written in Ruby. In this post, we will show you how to install Redmine on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Big wave surf legend and surfboard maker, Gary Linden talks the ocean, the internet and where humanity goes from here. The post Gary Linden, legendary surfer & Firefox fan appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Python is a free, open-source, and high-level programming language used for scripting and automation. It is very popular, object-oriented, and used by many top tech companies including Google. It is known for its simplicity and easy-to-use syntax. The Python 3.9 version has been released with new features/modules, security updates, and improvements. In this post, we will show you how to install Python 3.9 on Debian 10 VPS.

Thanks to increased demand for internet-connected cars, autos are driving the manufacturing edge with robotics-driven automation during assembly.

Wind River has released Wind River Linux LTS21, advancing to Linux LTS 5.10, Yocto Project 3.3, and Qt 5.15.2. New features include a Linux Assembly Tool for image creation and a pre-built binary distribution. We last heard from Wind River in Feb. 2020 when the company released an unnamed version of Wind River Linux that […]

Gather a variety of system and non-system information with a single Linux command: inxi

For anyone running the Ubuntu 20.10, you have until July 22 to update to a newer version. Canonical, the company behind the distro, has announced that after that date, version 20.10 (also known as “Groovy Gorilla”) will enter its End of Life.

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For while now CentOS has been widely used by small businesses and developers in server environments given that it provides the stability and reliability that RHEL offers at absolutely no cost. Being a rolling release and a Beta version for future RHEL releases, CentOS Stream will certainly not be recommended for production workload

In 5 reasons to run Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi homelab, I explain why you might want to use Kubernetes at home. Those reasons are relatively arbitrary, and they mostly focus on outcomes. Aside from what Kubernetes can do, there are several other good reasons to look at Kubernetes as an important next step in your personal computing experience. 1. It's built on the foundation of Linux read more

This brief guide explains five different ways to comment out multiple lines at once in Vim editor in Linux and Unix operating systems.

What does a native overlayfs mean to you and your container workloads?

Today, I will show you how you can check the TLS/SSL certificate expiration date of an SSL certificate of a website using OpenSSL on Ubuntu 20.04.

Sharing files between computers and servers is an essential networking task. Thankfully, NFS (Network File System) is available for Linux systems and makes the job extremely easy. With NFS properly configured, moving files between computers is as easy as moving files around on the same machine. Since NFS functionality is built directly into the Linux kernel, it is both powerful and available on every Linux distro, although the configuration can differ slightly between them.

Centrifugo is an open-source real-time messaging server with support for WebSocket and SockJS. In this guide, we will show you how to install Centrifugo on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

If you are concerned about privacy and want one of the most well-protected browsers available, then you should try the Tor browser. It is free and open source software that enables anonymous internet communication.

Videomass is a cross-platform GUI designed for FFmpeg enthusiasts who need to manage custom profiles to automate conversion/transcoding processes. The software lets you create, edit and use FFmpeg presets and profiles with full format support. The program also offers an array of tools for audio and video conversion. And it offers a frontend to download video and audio from YouTube and other sites.