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The thirty-seventh installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 13th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Tuning remote connection of PyQT5 to Mariadb-Server as well as to MySQL seemed to me the most time consuming part of this small project. Obviously, the options for Mariadb and MySQL are mutually exclusive. Tuning network configs on bare metal described in details utilizing `netstat -ant | grep 3306` output required to get connection ready

Linux is an operating system that supports multiple users working on the same system. Thus, it is essential to manage the permissions such as who can see or modify the files and folders for every one of them. In this tutorial, you will learn different ways to change the file and folder permissions for any users or groups on Linux.

This guide explains how to change KVM libvirt default storage pool location using Virsh program, Virt-manager and Cockpit in Linux.

Many people consider tuning database queries to be some mysterious "dark art" out of a Harry Potter novel; with the wrong incantation, your data turns from a valuable resource into a pile of mush.

The Apache web server has the ability to serve multiple websites from the same IP address, using virtual hosts. Each Virtual Host can be configured in the main server configuration file, or, thanks to the Include or the IncludeOptional directives, in its own dedicated one. When the number of virtual hosts increases, their management starts to become troublesome. If their configuration is quite similar, we can manage them dynamically, thanks to the mod_vhost_alias module. In this tutorial we will see how to do it.

Kube-monkey offers an easy way to stress-test your systems by scheduling random termination pods in your cluster.

This guide will help you understand some of rsync’s most popular and powerful features. In the following examples, you’ll see 10 of the most useful rsync commands that every Linux user ought to know.

In a previous post, I wrote about a new set of technologies “Privacy Preserving Advertising”, which are intended to allow for advertising without compromising privacy. This post discusses one of those proposals–Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)–which Chrome is currently testing. The idea behind FLoC is to make it possible to target ads based on the […]

Users of the Kubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system can now update their installations to the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment.

Vecow’s rugged “AIC-100” and “AIC-110” IoT gateways run Linux on an i.MX6 ULL with 2x LAN, 2x COM, USB, and mini-PCIe with SIM. The larger AIC-110 adds 2x CAN and 12x isolated DIO. Vecow is continuing its Arm adventure with two compact, DIN-rail mountable IoT gateways that run Debian on NXP’s power-sipping NXP i.MX6 ULL. […]

Nmap is a free and open-source network discovery and security audit tool. Nmap stands for “Network Mapper“. This article is aimed towards users who aren’t familiar with Nmap, and we’ll be covering the basics of Nmap with easy explanations and examples to help you along the way.

In this guide, we’ll go over all the tar commands you’ll need to know in order to create tar archives and extract files from tar archives.

KDE Plasma 5.22 is out and it’s making its way into the software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distribution, but work already started for the next major release, KDE Plasma 5.23.

The KDE team enabled the backports PPA which you can use to install and upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.22 in Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo. Here's how.

After a long and tough year, I've been looking forward to once again sharing my love of Python and open source software with other people, especially middle and high school students. Before the pandemic, I co-wrote a grant to teach Python programming to middle school students using Raspberry Pi computers. Like many other plans, COVID-19 put mine on hold for over a year. Fortunately, vaccines and the improved health in my state, New York, have changed the dynamic.

Timesys has launched an Embedded Board Farm service that provides secure remote access to embedded hardware and BSPs for Linux, Android, QNX, and FreeRTOS for software development, test automation, and debugging. Long-time embedded Linux software developer Timesys has announced the launch of Timesys Embedded Board Farm (EBF). The service “provides a secured, user-owned infrastructure solution […]

The TODO Group, together with Linux Foundation Research and The New Stack, is conducting a survey as part of a research project on the prevalence and outcomes of open source programs among different organizations across the globe.  Open source program offices (OSPOs) help set open source strategies and improve an organization’s software development practices. Since […]

There's no time like the present to learn some new sysadmin skills. Soft skills, that is.

Portwell’s Linux-ready “PCOM-B645VG” Compact Type 6 module offers Intel Elkhart Lake E and RE CPUs plus up to 32GB ECC RAM, triple 4K displays, 2.5GbE, 2x USB 3.1 Gen2, 6x PCIe 3.0, and -40 to 85°C support. Portwell, which announced an Intel Elkhart Lake based PQ7-M109 Qseven module last November, has returned with a COM […]