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Red Hat has officially lifted the lid on version 9 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), code-named Plow, the latest major version of the dominant paid-for, commercial server Linux. This release aims to roll out features and functionality without being too different from its older siblings.

Solr is a free, open-source, and very popular tool used for search and real-time indexing. It is very highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and optimized for a high volume of internet traffic. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Apache Solr on Ubuntu 22.04.

"Getting involved" with open source can seem a little confusing. Where do you go to get started? What if you don't know how to code? Who do you talk to? How does anybody know that you have contributed, and besides that does anybody care?

Docker is finally bringing its container development and deployment tool, Docker Desktop, to Linux.

Reading strings in C used to be a very dangerous thing to do. When reading input from the user, programmers might be tempted to use the gets function from the C Standard Library. The usage for gets is simple enough:

Ubuntu introduces a new LTS release of the distro every two years. Here are three reasons to install Ubuntu LTS on your PC.

Handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation is essential knowledge for sysadmins. Understanding file descriptors and how they relate to these topics improves your sysadmin skills. This article covers three standard Linux file descriptors for manipulating files through shell redirection and pipelines.

Progress was made in persuading 3D graphics to work in Linux on Apple's M1 over the weekend – in the form of a blue rabbit. Alyssa Rosenzweig, who is leading development of the Panfrost and Asahi Linux graphics drivers, showed off her continuing work in a succession of tweets involving Glmark2, an OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics performance benchmark tool for GNU/Linux, successfully rendering the bunny in 3D detail..

Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of Fedora Project contributors: our latest release, Fedora Linux 36, is here!

FreeIPA is a free and open-source identity management solution for Linux/Unix operating systems. In this guide, we will show you how to install the FreeIPA Identity manager on the Rocky Linux server.

systemd is a robust tool for handling Linux services. If you've interacted with a systemd service file, it's probably been a simple or forking type. There are many other service types in systemd, including exec, dbus, notify, idle, and oneshot, each with different functions.

Appwrite, a new open-source service company, recently managed to launch. Now it wants to help other companies make the expensive leap from project to a business.

We concentrate on their technical aspects, but file systems can get pretty political. They're one of the last fronts still fighting in the Interoperability Wars. While you can plumb any number of open file systems to Linux if you need what they have, NTFS remains a problem.

Koel is a web-based audio streaming service written in the Laravel PHP framework. It allows you to stream your personal music collection and access it from anywhere in the world. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Koel Music Streaming Server using Docker on a Rocky Linux 8 machine.

For Linux users, there's a new kind of computer on the market, and it's known as the cloud. As with the PC sitting on your desk, the laptop in your backpack, and the virtual private server you rent from your favorite web hosting service, you have your choice in vendors for cloud computing. The brand names are different than the hardware brands you've known over the years, but the concept is the same.

Getting one operating system to run applications crafted to work on other platforms is a difficult challenge, but one which many people want to see working. People running Linux desktop systems often want to run Android applications or Windows programs. Meanwhile people using an Android phone often wish they could run full featured GNU/Linux software on their mobile devices.

The Nicla Vision is built around the STM32H7 (dual core M7/M4). This board comes in a tiny form factor and offers an on-board 2MP camera, Bluetooth 4.2 , Wi-Fi support and a 6-axis IMU. The Nicla Vision can be used as a standalone or in conjunction with Portenta and MKR components.

One of the most common tasks in Linux is setting file permissions, on this article we will explore some cool tips on how to do you job easier!

LXer Feature: 08-May-2022

After all my adventures I ended up with a really cool Linux laptop, wait..that's what I wanted in the first place!

Going along with many recent s2idle (suspend to idle) fixes as well as other fixes/workarounds/improvements like around S0ix, a patch is pending as a fix/workaround to get s2idle behaving correctly -- or rather, more timely -- on more AMD Ryzen powered Lenovo laptops.