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Distributed databases are common for many reasons. They increase reliability, redundancy, and performance. Apache ShardingSphere is an open source framework that enables you to transform any database into a distributed database...

Simon Bennetts, the founder of the world's famous web app security scanner, OWASP ZAP, has joined the Jit code security company. Both will be the better for it.

I was looking for information about the health of my laptop battery when I stumbled upon inxi. It's a command line system information tool that provides a wealth of information about your Linux computer, whether it's a laptop, desktop, or server...

Canonical announced today that it has joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance in an attempt to help set new security and reliability standards for IoT and offer Matter support for Ubuntu Core.

When you write an application, it's common to require data storage. Sometimes you're storing assets your application needs to function, and other times you're storing user data, including preferences and save data. One way to store data is in a database, and in order to communicate between your code and a database, you need a database binding or connector for your language. For Java, a common database connector is JDBC (Java database connectivity.)

PeerTube is a free, self-hosted, and open-source software that users can install on their servers to create a video hosting and sharing platform. The ability to automatically import all videos from a remote channel into one of your channels is the big news in the recently released PeerTube 4.3.

Learn how to use flac2all, a simple yet powerful utility, to automate the FLAC transcoding process on your Linux machine.

Apple Preview is more than just an image viewer. The software provides a full set of markup tools. These include tools for adding text and shapes, redacting content, making freehand drawings, inserting sticky notes, and capturing your signature. It’s also a full-featured PDF editor.

This guide explains what is RPM Fusion repository, why should we install RPM Fusion repository, and finally how to enable RPM Fusion repository in Fedora, RHEL, and its clones like CentOS, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux

The Debian Project released today the first alpha development version of the installer for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series, due for release next year.

Microsoft has released a new 0.67.6 version of its Windows Subsystem for Linux, which includes long-awaited systemd support. This elevates the system to a whole new level, opening up many possibilities.

Love it or loathe it? Plus: KDE 5.26 here soon, and both desktops still working on mobile support. The third release of GNOME since the big shift of GNOME 40 is coming together – but KDE isn't getting left behind.…

Setting up Git on Linux is simple, but here are the five things I do to get the perfect configuration: Create global configuration; Set default name; Set default email address; Set default branch name; Set default editor. I manage my code, shell scripts, and documentation versioning using Git.

Fwupd, a system daemon designed to allow session software to update firmware on GNU/Linux distributions, has been updated today to version 1.8.5, which brings new features and better hardware support.

Chainguard takes a new approach to building a container Linux with all the security you'd need already baked in.

The KDE Project has put out a fundraiser in an attempt to help the development team behind the popular Kdenlive video editor take the next step in the development process of this powerful open-source project.

Podman is a container runtime that provides features similar to Docker. It's part of the libpod library and can be used to manage pods, containers, container images, and container volumes.

The GNOME 43 “Guadalajara” desktop environment was released, improving the appearance and adding some new features. And while there are no revolutionary changes, it looks more polished than ever.

This guide explains what is Ansible register and how to capture a task output in Ansible using the register variables in Linux.

Podman also called "Pod Manager" is an open-source tool used for creating and managing containers. It is part of the libpod library that doesn’t rely on the Docker daemon and is compatible with Docker. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use Podman on Ubuntu 22.04 server.