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See how the watch command can let you know when a task has been completed or a command has been executed.

Macast is a new free and open source tool to use your computer as a DLNA media renderer, so you can cast videos, pictures and music from your phone (or another computer) to your desktop, kind of like a Chromecast.

The echo command is one of the most commonly and widely used built-in commands for Linux bash and C shells, that typically used in a scripting language and batch files to display a line of text/string on standard output or a file.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-host Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate adoption of open source software, standards and best practices in financial services, today announced keynote speakers for Open Source Strategy Forum London (OSSF). The event takes place October 5, preceded by a FINOS Member event on October 4, in London, England. The schedule can be viewed here and the keynote speakers can be viewed here.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the latest Tor Browser on Linux Mint 20.

ls command is one of the most frequently used commands in Linux. I believe the ls command is the first command you may use when you get into the command prompt of Linux Box.

MongoDB is an object-oriented, schema-less, NoSQL database server used in developing modern dynamic apps. This tutorial will cover how to install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 8.

If recent surveys and polls ring true, over 40% of the global workforce is considering leaving their employer this year. Despite COVID-19 causing initial turnover due to the related economic downturn, the current phenomenon coined “The Great Resignation” is attributed to the many job seekers choosing to leave their current employment voluntarily. Mass vaccinations and […]

The networking startup says the new platform is aimed at "the other side of the house" from its usual network engineering customers.

Ruby, unlike Python, makes lots of things implicit, and there's a special kind of if expression that demonstrates this well. It's often referred to as an "inline-if" or "conditional modifier", and this special syntax is able to return one value when a condition is true, but another value (nil, specifically) when a condition is false. Here's an example: read more

Wiki.js is an open-source wiki software written in JavaScript and running on the Node.js runtime. In this guide, you will learn how to install Wiki.js on the Rocky Linux server. You will be installing the Wiki.js with the latest LTS version of Node.js, using PostgreSQL as its main database, and using the Nginx web server as a reverse proxy.

Firefox Suggest displays suggestions when users type in the Firefox address bar. The feature may look like search suggestions on first glance, a feature that Firefox supported for a long while. However suggestions from Firefox Suggest are not offered by the search engine that is used, but by Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

NumPy, or Numerical Python, is a library that makes it easy to do statistical and set operations on linear series and matrices in Python. It is orders of magnitude faster than Python lists, which I covered in my notes on Python Data Types. NumPy is used quite frequently in data analysis and scientific calculations. read more

The KDE Project announced today the general availability for public beta testing of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environment series, which is dubbed the “25th Anniversary Edition.”

In Bash scripting, functions are ways to group the set of instructions together to get a specific outcome. This guide explains how to use functions in bash scripts in Linux with examples.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the latest Java 17 (OpenJDK 17) on Debian 11 Bullseye with using three different methods and how to create a test application.

Nagios is a popular and one of the most powerful open-source computer monitoring systems. It keeps track of your IT infrastructure and ensures that your networks, servers, applications, and processes are running smoothly. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and configure Nagios on a CentOS 8 based server.

The Document Foundation announced today the release of LibreOffice 7.2.1 as the first point release to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 7.2 open-source office suite series.

In this article, you will learn how to install and configure Apache and PHP on Rosehosting Cloud PaaS, in order to achieve full control over your data.

Oracle this week made Oracle JDK "available for free," for personal, commercial and production use, including quarterly security updates, for a limited time. "Free" in this context means the software is now licensed under the Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions (NFTC) license, having been previously under the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) License Agreement for Oracle Java SE. But "free" does not mean developers may do as they please. Oracle's NFTC forbids redistribution of its Java software for a fee. "Free" also does not mean the NFTC license conforms with the Free Software Definition or the Open Source Definition, both of which require allowing fee-based distribution.