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Knowing how much space a file or folder consumes on a partition is essential for a system administrator or developer. This knowledge allows you to plan for storage upgrades, manage and rotate files, and do other necessary sysadmin tasks. My favorite command for this type of data gathering is the du command.

Whether you're interested in them as part of your job, for future job opportunities, or just out of interest in new technology, containers can seem pretty overwhelming to even an experienced systems administrator. So how do you actually get started with containers? And what's the path from containers to Kubernetes? Also, why is there a path from one to the other at all? As you might expect, the best place to start is the beginning.

The tutorial below will teach you how to successfully upgrade Fedora 35 to the newly released Fedora 36 Beta/Pre-Release Development branch that features the incoming GNOME 42 and Linux Kernel 5.17.

The nmcli command is a command-line tool for managing NetworkManager. Using nmcli, a Linux administrator can perform various tasks, such as managing network connections and displaying the network interface adapter’s status. In this tutorial, we will learn to use the nmcli command to manage NetworkManager.

Released earlier this month, GStreamer 1.20 is the fruitful result of 17 months of hard work from the entire community. Over 250 developers contributed to make this release happen, and once again, Collabora had more contributors than any other organization. Our team's work focused on two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and network streaming, in particular WebRTC. Here's a recap of where Collabora made its mark.

When it comes to choosing the right VPS (Virtual Private Server) server for your solution, you may want to test its performance. This article will show you how to check the network speed, disk performance, and CPU performance of your Linux VPS server for a quick benchmark.

Whether we’re using a Raspberry Pi or a data center server, we need to know how our CPU and RAM are performing and, in Linux, there are a plethora of commands and applications that we can use. At the basic low level “How much RAM have I used?” to inspecting the CPU for vulnerabilities such as Spectre, there are commands at our disposal.

Bring your old PC back to life by installing Tiny Core Linux, the smallest and the most lightweight Linux distro you can get your hands on.

sudo rm -rf /: the command you should never run on Linux. A beginner's guide to the harmful command often used by trolls.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to upgrade or install Mesa Drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with two PPA options.

I used to marvel at people who required more than one clock, each set to an exotic timezone, on the wall. I saw it mostly in movies, so when I met someone in real life with lots of clocks, it made them seem particularly important, like the leader of a global spy network or a big banking syndicate. And yet lately, I find myself needing to be aware of at least three different timezones on a regular basis. It's not that I've become more important, it's just that the world has gotten smaller, thanks to technology and remote work.

iRedMail is an open-source email server that supports the latest IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 standards. It also supports modules such as Antispam and Antivirus to keep your inbox spam-free and virus-free. This post will give you a step-by-step guide on setting up iRedMail on RHEL.

The upcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment series will feature a built-in screenshot and screencast feature that will replace the existing GNOME Screenshot utility.

Kontron unveiled a 30 x 30mm “OSM-S i.MX8M Mini” OSM module with up to 4GB LPDDR4, which is available with a baseboard and a Linux BSP as the “BL i.MX8M Mini OSM” SBC. Iesy is prepping its own i.MX8M Mini and Rockchip PX30 based OSM modules.

Want to get a macOS-like dock on your Linux desktop? These seven dock apps will help you recreate the Mac desktop experience on Linux.

This article gives you a step-by-step installation guide for the xmonad setup in Arch Linux with a custom pre-configured script.

Deci unveiled AutoNAC generated “DeciNets” models for Intel Cascade Lake CPUs claimed to be much faster and more accurate than other image classification models for CPUs. Meanwhile, Aaeon announced that the Hailo-8 NPU is available on its UP boards. Last July, Deci announced its DeciNets family of pre-trained image classification models, which are generated from […]

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) attacks on "Linux" persist; now there's some not-too-alarming flaw in snap-confine and we're meant to think it's a very serious problem; in the real world, however, it's not used much on multi-user systems

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Budgie Desktop Environment on AlmaLinux 8 Workstation.

A good photo can be a powerful thing. It expresses what you saw in a very literal sense, but it also speaks to what you experienced. Little things say a lot: the angle you choose when taking the photo, how large something looms in the frame, and by contrast the absence of those conscious choices.