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Docker is a hugely popular containerization platform tool that allows users to develop, test and deploy applications in a smooth and efficient manner inside containers. A container is a lightweight and portable unit that runs in complete isolation from the underlying operating system.

Wine is an open-source compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. It is an interface that translates Windows system calls into equivalent POSIX calls used by Linux and other Unix-based operating systems. For Linux users, Wine is a savior when running Windows-based applications on UNIX systems. In the following guide, you will learn how to install and configure Wine on Linux Mint 20 operating systems.

Jira Software is a highly used project management tool among companies nowadays. It has a good task system allowing the users to manage the entire application development process without losing important points. It’s easy for every team, from IT to HR to legal, to set up and tailor their service desks to meet their specific needs.

C++, an extension of well known C language, is an excellent, powerful and general-purpose programming language that offers modern and generic programming features for developing large-scale applications ranging from video games, search engines, other computer software to operating systems.

In this guide, you will learn how to install Nextcloud on the Rocky Linux 8.4. You will be installing Nextcloud under the LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache2/httpd, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP).

Release candidate one for Slackware 15.0 announced

GNU grep 3.7 has been released with a fix for a bug causing "extreme performance degradation" in certain types of search. This search tool, which looks for character patterns in files, is a core utility on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In November last year, a user noted: "I have a use case where I run grep with a large number of search patterns on a large text file. It works well with grep-3.3, but with grep-3.4 it quickly burned through GBs of memory and almost locked up my system due to swapping ... even with just 30,000 patterns it exceeds the limit of 5GB." By contrast, grep 3.3 used "just a few 100MB."

2DayGeeK: Basic 25 Linux Interview Questions and Answers.

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install MantisBT (FOOS bug tracker) on an Ubuntu server.

The RHEL clone and CentOS 8 replacement, available on Amazon Web Services since the end of June, is now available on Microsoft Azure.

With the implementation of the Chromium engine on Microsoft Edge, learn in this guide how to install Microsoft Edge on various Linux distros.

Through TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), an FTP application makes uploading and downloading file data easy. This article will help you achieve secure file transfer on an FTP server through Very Secure FTP Daemon (vsftpd) in Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux (same instructions also works on RHEL and CentOS).

Learn how to install new software packages on all your managed hosts with a single Ansible playbook.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn the fundamentals of processes and how to use the kill command.

Sometimes a programming cure is worse than the disease. That's the case with this Linux glibc security bug.

We asked our contributors What was your first programming language? but the question goes much deeper than that. There are stories to tell about who suggested it or what prompted you to learn it. If you were paid to do so, and what happened next. Then there's a lot it says about your age and what was going on in the world.

In this guide, we will show you step-by-step how to install a 64-bit version of Rocky Linux 8.4 as a stand-alone server. Additionally, we will verify the installation by accessing the Rocky Linux server through SSH from another machine.

Managing network traffic is one of the toughest jobs a system administrators has to deal with. He must configure the firewall in such a way that it will meet the system and users requirements for both incoming and outgoing connections, without leaving the system vulnerable to attacks.

Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application software that is owned and developed by Microsoft. Skype is one of the most known and recognized software for video, audio, and text communication app available across multiple platforms. For the most part, free to download and use, Skype is an excellent tool for keeping in touch with friends or working remotely with colleagues.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Skype with Nginx on Rocky Linux 8.

There are several third-party libraries for command-line argument parsing, but the standard library module argparse is no slouch either. Without adding any more dependencies, you can write a nifty command-line tool with useful argument parsing. Argument parsing in Python When parsing command-line arguments with argparse, the first step is to configure an ArgumentParser object. This is often done at the global module scope since merely configuring the parser has no side effects. read more