Most Linux users are at least familiar with VLC, and a good portion of them have it installed. What many don't know is that VLC can handle much more than just playing your videos. In addition to its many other options, VLC can easily stream a video over your network.

In this article, we will give you an introduction to some famous video players for Ubuntu. We will also tell you where to find their websites and how to install them on Ubuntu.

You know Play Store security scans are really bad when spyware based on open source code manages to slip past Google's defenses, not once, but twice.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 GNU/Linux operating systems have received an important Linux kernel security update that addresses several critical vulnerabilities and fixes various bugs.

The mktemp command creates a temporary file or directory safely and prints its name. All files and directories will be saved in the system's temporary directory, i.e /tmp.

On the day of Steam Play hitting the big one year anniversary (August 21st), it seems another milestone has been reached in terms of compatibility.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Go on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS, as well as show you how to build a simple Go application.

The ability to share files regardless of the physical distance and almost instantaneously is one of the greatest characteristics of the Internet. With 4.3 billion Internet users at the beginning of 2019, the amount of data transferred over the Web is almost unimaginable.

Nginx comes with features for you to block a DDoS attack on your server. Learn how you can configure your Nginx to prevent a DDoS attack.

The DNS nameservers (resolvers) are servers which are used by other devices to perform DNS lookup for a requested domain.

In this article, we will explain how you can install Trimage on your Ubuntu both through the UI and the command line. We will then explain how you can launch and use this tool to losslessly compress images through your Ubuntu.

Moving files in Linux can seem relatively straightforward, but there are more options available than most realize. This article teaches beginners how to move files in the GUI and on the command line, but also explains what’s actually happening under the hood, and addresses command line options that many experience users have rarely explored. read more

Linux.com has become a curated syndicator of news (edited by one single Microsoft proponent); the site has also eliminated its traditional design in favour of something only 'hipsters' can appreciate

Grav is a fast, simple, and flexible, file-based CMS and platform. This tutorial will walk you through the Grav CMS installation procedure on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server using Nginx as the webserver and we will secure the website with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

Dell today announced the 9th generation of its XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux-powered laptop, which will ship with Intel's latest 10th Gen Core U CPUs.

You may struggle with the performance of your GPU if it isn't properly configured. Learn how you can monitor Nvidia GPU in Linux with these two tools.

I first installed Linux in 1993. At that time, you really didn't have many options for installing the operating system. In those early days, many people simply copied a running image from someone else. Then someone had the neat idea to create a "distribution" of Linux that let you customize what software you wanted to install. That was the Softlanding Linux System (SLS) and my first introduction to Linux. read more

Ansible's documentation can be daunting for beginner's. Here's a tour that might help.

Dell's dedicated laptop for open-source programmers sees a new release featuring Intel's hot new laptop CPU: Comet Lake.

COBOL remains the dominant language of mainframes. What can Go learn from its history to dominate the cloud? Old challenges are new again. In this week's Command Line Heroes podcast (Season 3, Episode 5), that thought comes with a twist of programming languages and platforms.

Google promoted the Chrome OS 76 operating system for supported Chromebook devices to the stable channel, and it is now rolling out to users from around the world with new features and improvements.

Echo is a Unix/Linux command tool used for displaying lines of text or string which are passed as arguments on the command line. This command is mostly commonly used in shell scripts. In this tutorial, we will look at different options of echo command.

Recently, I got a rush request to get a three-node Apache Cassandra cluster with a replication factor of two working for a development job. I had little idea what that meant but needed to figure it out quickly—a typical day in a sysadmin's job. Here's how to set up a basic three-node Cassandra cluster from scratch with some extra bits for replication and future node expansion.

A look over July's top releases on Steam, plus some highlights about the Linux support status for those titles and some thoughts.

Usbtop is a top-like CLI utility that helps us to find USB device bandwidth usage on Linux. It shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on USB buses and devices.

It started as a microprocessor pioneer in the 1970s. Now, the company is charting a new course in open source silicon.

On Monday, the US further restricted Huawei's ability to participate in standards development, and made it a lot harder for standards developing organizations to run their operations without fear of liability. The rules may also affect the ability of US developers to participate in open source projects using "copyleft" licenses like the GPL

Renaming multiple files and directories with the mv command can be a tedious process as it involves writing complex commands with pipes, loops, and so on. This is where the rename command comes handy. It renames the given files by replacing the search expression in their name with the specified replacement. In this tutorial, we will explain how to use the rename command to batch rename files.

Open source hardware and 3D printers go together like, well, open source hardware and 3D printers. Not only are 3D printers used to create all sorts of open source hardware—there are also a huge number of 3D printers that have been certified as open source by the Open Source Hardware Association. That fact means that they are freely available to improve and build upon.

If you want to figure out how long a process has been running in Linux for some reason; yes, it is possible and can be done with help of ps command.