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EcmaScript 6 modules will not stop growing use of Node, claims chair of Technical Steering Committee. Node.js 17 is out, loaded with OpenSSL 3 and other new features, but it is not intended for use in production – and the promotion for Node.js 16 to an LTS release, expected soon, may be more important to most developers.…

One of the best ways to keep your data secure is by only writing data to an encrypted hard drive. On a standard drive, it's possible to view data just by mounting the drive as if it were a thumb drive, and it's even possible to display and recover even deleted data with tools like Scalpel and Testdisk.

Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity. A working group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has proposed a series of steps to "decolonize" the Informatics curriculum, which includes trying "to avoid using predominantly Western names such as Alice/Bob (as is common in the computer security literature)."…

The Cockpit is a free and open-source server management application sponsored by Red Hat. In this post, we will show you how to install and use Cockpit on Debian 11.

Even the best programmers can create programming bugs. Depending on what your program does, these bugs could introduce security vulnerabilities, cause the program to crash, or create unexpected behavior. The C programming language sometimes gets a bad reputation because it is not memory safe like more recent programming languages, including Rust. But with a little extra code, you can avoid the most common and most serious C programming bugs.

MongoDB is an open-source, general-purpose, document-based, and distributed database designed for modern application developers. In this post, we will show you how to install and secure MongoDB on Debian 11.

Writers not only work with words, they often have to work with images. Technical writing involves presenting a lot of screenshots to convey the technology and processes. Different publishing platforms may have various requirements for images, such as image format or file size.

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is the name of the software development kit (SDK) for the Java programming language, which enables anyone to create both Java applications and applets for running on many operating systems. This tutorials shows how to install Java JDK on Debian 11.

Redis is a free, open-source, cross-platform NoSQL, and in-memory Key-value data structure store, used as a database server, cache, and message broker. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install the Redis server on Debian 11.

Logs are great for finding out what an application is doing or troubleshooting a possible problem. Almost every application we deal with generates logs, and we want the applications we develop ourselves to generate them too. The more verbose the logs, the more information we have. But left to themselves, logs can grow to an unmanageable size, and they can, in turn, become a problem of their own. So it's a good idea to keep them trimmed down, keep the ones we're going to need, and archive the rest. read more

Amazon Elastic File System(EFS) provides an NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources which is simple, scalable, fully managed. We can mount this file system either on AWS Cloud or our on-premises servers. In this article, we will focus on creating a simple EFS filesystem and mount it on an Ubuntu EC2 instance.

Rsyslog is a free and open-source logging software that forwards all log files to the centralized log server through the IP network. In this post, we will show you how to set up the Rsyslog server on Debian 11.

Drivers slip into the kernel as team ponders GPU hardware. Efforts to bring Linux to Apple Silicon have resulted in a basic functional desktop, according to the Asahi Linux team.…

On Linux, there are commands to view processes running on your system. A process is any ongoing event being managed by the kernel. A process is spawned when you launch an application, but there are also many other processes running in the background of your computer, including programs to keep your system time accurate, to monitor for new filesystems, to index files, and more. The utilities, such as those included in the procps-ng package, that monitor these processes tend to be intentionally generic.

Go is a programming language that was initially created by a team at Google. In this tutorial, we'll look at how to install and configure a programming workspace with Go via command line. You can follow along if you have a working Debian 11 system.

That's the hope as distributed and heavy workloads promised a boost in targeting Oracle for high-end workloads. Open-source database fans were given reason to celebrate this week with the release of PostgreSQL 14, an iteration of the RDBMS featuring performance improvements for heavy and distributed workloads.…

Cockpit is a server management dashboard that provides real-time information on the state of your machine. In this guide, we will show you how to install the Cockpit Web Console on a Rocky Linux 8 system.

Ansible is a top open source project which, on the surface, looks to provide a simple way to standardize your existing automation and allow it to run in parallel across multiple hosts, and it does this very successfully. Yet, in reality, Ansible has the capabilities to extend what your existing automation does to incorporate other systems and really simplify tasks across all aspects of your daily routine.

Drupal is a free and open-source content management system based on the LAMP stack. In this post, we will show you how to install Drupal with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Debian 11.

Automation is the great IT and DevOps ideal, but in my experience, anything that's not immediately convenient may as well not exist at all. There have been many times when I've come up with a pretty good solution for some task, and I'll even script it, but I stop short of making it literally automated because the infrastructure for easy automation doesn't exist on the machine I'm working on. read more