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Look! I wrote a virtual reality (VR) server and published it on GitHub! But why? Well, I'm your typical introverted hacker. I like to play with technology. Whenever something new comes out, I have to lay my hands on it and get them dirty. So, when I gifted myself Oculus Quest last year, I played a few games before I wanted to code something myself. And guess what? Everything is proprietary!

Learn how to use the Docker Exec command to establish a shell session and interact with your Docker Containers. The Docker exec command is a very useful command for interacting with your running docker containers. When working with Docker you will likely have the need to access the shell or CLI of the docker containers you have deployed, which you can do using docker exec.

The Darktable 3.4 open-source and cross-platform RAW image editor is now available for download as a major update bringing numerous new features, improvements, bug fixes, and up-to-date camera support.

Here are the 5 best distros for beginners.

They are all Debian-based distros, so they all use the apt package manager by default, unlike Ubuntu that ships with the snap package manager (which can be installed in the other distros). This kind of distro is easy to learn and to install.

Mastering scrum, remote work tips, advice for the junior admins, and how to identify failure are some of the top stories impacting sysadmin careers.

Today, Telegram’s product manager and Co-founder Pavel Durov announced that the platform is approaching 500 million active users, and that they no longer can keep it ad-free. Starting from 2021, they will serve ads that are “user-friendly, respects privacy and allows us to cover the costs of servers and traffic”.

It's common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to everyone, and above all a time for lists. So there's no better time to compile a list for the year. Once you've digested everything below, you can plan your New Year resolutions!

The LVM is a powerful storage management module which is included in all the distributions of Linux now. It provides users with a variety of valuable features to fit different requirements. The management tools that come with LVM are based on the command line interface, which is very powerful and suitable for automated/batch operations. But LVM's operations and configuration are quite complex because of its own complexity. So many software companies including Red Hat have launched some GUI-based LVM tools to help users manage LVM more easily. Let’s review them here to see the similarities and differences between individual tools.

SAR or System Activity Report is used for monitoring Linux system resources . It can be used to generate reports relating to performance of a system i.e CPU reports, Memory reports, Disk reports etc. It saves reports in the form of log files on the system.

This beginner's guide helps you remotely connect to Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10. We show you the easy steps with an example.

Fighting the good fight for better security is a never-ending battle. See how some sysadmin warriors have approached it.

Fedora CoreOS is a lightweight, secure operating system optimized for running containerized workloads. A YAML document is all you need to describe the workload you’d like to run on a Fedora CoreOS server. This is wonderful for a single server, but how would you describe a fleet of cooperating Fedora CoreOS servers? For example, what […]

The lightweight desktop environment Xfce releases its latest installment Xfce 4.16 with many exciting features. Here in this post, we summarize the Xfce 4.16 release covering the brand new features, updates, and download details.

Eclipse is an IDE (integrated development environment). It’s definitely not a text editor. Then again, an IDE is really just a text editor with a lot of extra features for specific kinds of text. Furthermore, an IDE is often home to a developer. Developers have their IDE of choice open all day long, so it’s natural to stay in that IDE when it’s time to write a project README file, or to jot down a quick note, or to just make a grocery list.

CloudLinux offers extended support until 2024 to keep your CentOS 6 servers secure from a new OpenSSL Vulnerability.

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to install and uninstall list of packages from a file in Linux.

The Raspberry Pi is the small, low-cost, single-board PC that took the world by storm when it was released in 2012. Since then, educators, students, makers, and tinkerers have used the various Raspberry Pi models for many, many unique and interesting projects. The possibilities are nearly endless.

In 2020, as every year, new open source projects launched as alternatives to proprietary solutions. Here is a roundup of the top nine articles about open source alternatives that made the headlines in 2020 on Opensource.com.

This step by step guide explains how to upgrade Alpine Linux to latest available stable version or rolling release version.

The Xfce 4.16 desktop environment has been officially released today as a major update that brings numerous new features and improvements over the previous release, Xfce 4.14.