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Find out how to reconnect to Slack over IRC using a Bitlbee libpurple plugin.

A spell checker is an important tool if your work involves writing or editing text files or documents. While most GUI based editors come with spell checking feature inbuilt, the same cannot be said for command line editors. However, there are separate command line tools that can help you with spell check.

security personnel seek to mitigate the risk of kernel-level attacks, they're going to need a better way to prioritize vulnerabilities for remediation. A group of researchers set to present at Black Hat USA in a couple of weeks are preparing to offer them a new exploit framework that they say can help...

Jenkins is an automation server with support for many SCM (Source Control Management) systems including Git, SVN, and Mercurial. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to automate your project. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up Jenkins master-slave architecture using the latest Ubuntu version Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. We will learn to set up the Jenkins master server, and then add other Ubuntu nodes as Jenkins slaves.

What on earth is RISC OS? Well, it's not a new kind of Linux. And it's not someone's take on Windows. In fact, released in 1987, it's older than either of these. But you wouldn't necessarily realize it by looking at it. The point-and-click graphic user interface features a pinboard and an icon bar across the bottom for your active applications. So, it looks eerily like Windows 95, eight years before it happened. read more

If you need to extract data from files, or simply display data in a new way, you need a script. AWK is a scripting language that does exactly that in a straightforward way. AWK (usually written as just "awk") originates from the 1970s and has become a standard feature on any Unix system. Named after its inventors—Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan—awk can tackle most jobs that you throw at it. read more

Visual Studio Code, or VS Code, is an open source code editor that also includes tools for building and debugging an application. With the Python extension enabled, vscode becomes a great working environment for any Python developer. This article shows you which extensions are useful, and how to configure VS Code to get the most out of […]

Can you build a business around open source software? You don't have to look much further than RedHat or Cloudera to know that the answer is yes. If the company is run right, it can take customers from established players and grow to the point where it's poised to go public.

Want a top-flight laptop with a high-end Linux pre-installed? Then you'll want to check out Dell's latest XPS 13.

In a previous article, Deploying new releases: Feature flags or rings?, I introduced feature flags and ring-based deployments, both enablers for the DevOps practice of progressive exposure. read more

The Raspberry Pi has been very popular among hobbyists and educators ever since its launch in 2011. It’s a credit-card-sized single-board computer with a Broadcom BCM 2835 SoC, 256MB to 512MB of RAM, USB ports, GPIO pins, Ethernet, HDMI out, camera header and an SD card slot. The most attractive aspects of the Raspberry Pi are its low cost of $35 and large user community following.

Just a few years ago, companies used innovation and digital transformation mostly to differentiate themselves and to stay competitive. The dramatic growth in digital technologies and cloud computing over the last couple of years has since changed this mindset.

Now that Linux has achieved World Domination, seems it has nothing but friends. Big ones.

Those that develop on Linux are likely familiar with Git. With good reason. Git is one of the most widely used and recognized version control systems on the planet. And for most, Git use tends to lean heavily on the terminal. After all, much of your development probably occurs at the command line, so why not interact with Git in the same manner?

News briefs for July 27, 2018.

E-con has released a four-board, 3.4MP “NileCAM30” camera system with either a USB 3.1 interface for any Linux or Windows computer or a MIPI-CSI interface that connects to a Jetson TX2 module. E-con Systems has launched a four-board, fixed-focus 3.4-megapixel camera system with up to HD video resolution at 60fps and 2304 x 1536 resolution […]

A look at Linux kernel developers' various revision control solutions through the years, Linus Torvalds' decision to use BitKeeper and the controversy that followed, and how Git came to be created.

Sequent is Kickstartering an industrial “MegaIO-IND” version of its Mega-IO home automation add-on for the Raspberry Pi with 4x 4-20mA inputs, 4x digital inputs, and 4x 10A/250V relays, all with optical isolation, plus analog I/O and more. Sequent Microsystems has launched a follow-up to two previous Raspberry Pi add-on boards that found success on Kickstarter: […]

Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer for microservices. In this tutorial, I will show you step by step how to install and configure Traefik modern reverse proxy as a Docker container on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

Modern computers are ever increasing in performance and capacity. This matters little if that increasing capacity is not well utilized. Following is a description of the motivation and work behind "curt," a new tool for Linux systems for measuring and breaking down system utilization by process, by task, and by CPU using the perf command's Python scripting capabilities. read more