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Over the past few years, the LLVM toolchain has seen increasing development and adoption alongside the older, more established GNU toolchain. The emergence of this new two major toolchain world is bringing challenges and questions for projects that need to support both, in particular the GNU C library (glibc), which only supports GCC.

Is it worth it to fix glibc (and other projects which support only GCC) to build with LLVM? Is it better to just replace them with alternatives already supporting LLVM? Is it best to use both GCC and LLVM, each for their respective supported projects?

This brief tutorial describes how to find all sudo users or super users (the users who have sudo access) in Linux and Unix-like systems.

I have suffered from distrohopping. Now that I have settled for the last two years, here are some tips to save your time.

Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 1.6.1 as a monthly update of this Debian-based and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution for the masses.

In this tutorial, we’ll cover what chmod 777 means and what the command does. We will also quickly go over some of the basics you must understand before learning about the chmod 777 command.

Oh my Zsh! Give your Linux Terminal a makeover using this guide. Here, we explain how to install, use and configure several themes in Zsh.

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.

KVM refers to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine which helps to run multiple Linux or window-based isolated guests along with their own OS and virtual dedicated hardware. This tutorial shows you how to create a VM template from the existing VM on KVM.

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.

This article shows you a number of useful and interesting Bash prompts with examples as well as some further instruction on working with them.

MERN stack is a combination of MongoDB, Express, React, Node. All of them are based on Javascript and the stack is used to build modern web applications. It is comprising the front-end (React), back-end (Node and Express), and database components (MongoDB).

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.

Exim is one of the most used email server software, developed at the University of Cambridge. The latest version of this popular mail transfer agent, Exim 4.95, ships with TLS resumption support included in default builds.

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

In December 2021, CentOS 8 will reach end of life and be replaced by CentOS Stream. One of the major changes between previous iterations of CentOS and CentOS Stream is the lack of minor versions. Centos Stream has adopted a continuous release cycle. From the beginning of this year, developers in the Foreman community started to see the benefits of earlier bug detection and patching that CentOS Stream offers as a result of the continuous releases. We no longer have to wait for the next release to take advantage of the latest changes and bugfixes.

It is easy to use your Linux distribution's package management tool to install the Java software packages. However, sometimes you need to do a manual installation of Java. This is of particular importance to administrators of Java-based application servers such as Tomcat or JBoss. Many open source and proprietary software products rely on these services.

'Minimal' tweaks shared for all to see. Development platform outfit Gitpod has taken the covers off an open-source project aimed at running the latest Visual Studio Code remotely via a browser in the form of OpenVSCode Server.…

This quick guide explains how to boot RHEL 8 system into Rescue Mode from installation DVD/ISO image.

One of the great things about Docker is how you can quickly use it to try out applications without having to install it directly on your machine. This guide explains step-by-step how to set up a new MySQL server running in Docker container in only a few minutes.

The Deepin community released today Deepin Linux 20.2.4 as the newest stable update to the latest Deepin 20.2 series of the Debian-based Linux distribution from China.