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When I first started using DOS, I enjoyed writing games and other interesting programs using BASIC, which DOS included. Much later, I learned the C programming language. I immediately loved working in C! It was a straightforward programming language that gave me a ton of flexibility for writing useful programs. In fact, much of the FreeDOS core utilities are written in C and Assembly. read more

Install CDemu to enable mounting of cue/bin disc images from GNOME Files.

Swift is a general-purpose, compiled, and high-performing programming language with a focus on safety. It was developed by Apple as a replacement for the older Objective-C language.

Detecting all prime numbers in given range is supposed to performed by C++ code code below as a procedure invoked from Python. Tested with both Python 3.9.5 and Python 3.10 (beta) via Python API. Refactoring code proposed in python-cpp-extension@github

As a longtime volunteer and mentor (and current board member) at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and vice president of the Apache Incubator, I'm proud to offer my insights into the unique processes and values with which the ASF operates.

The kill, pkill, and killall commands are used to terminate processes on a Linux system. This guide will show you how the commands work, and take you through some examples to learn the proper syntax. Let’s go kill some processes.

Learn how to pass variables to your Ansible playbooks makes them more portable and flexible.

This brief guide shows you how to password protect text files using Vim editor in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

ICP Germany has upgraded its “UG65” LoRaWAN gateway to add Node-RED support. The unit supports 8 simultaneous LoRa channels and more than 2,000 LoRaWAN nodes, along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi and cellular (optional) connectivity. We missed covering ICP Germany’s UG65 LoRaWAN gateway when it was first announced in mid-March. Now the company has upgraded the UG65 […]

The operating system they said shouldn't exist. Microsoft on Thursday announced Windows 11, or tried to as an uncooperative video stream left many viewers of the virtual event flummoxed by intermittent transmission gaps in the opening minutes.…

In this article you’ll learn what are the best free RDBMS replacements for MySQL Server, what they have in common, how they’re different, and in which cases you should prefer one or the other.

netstat is available on all Unix-like Operating Systems and also available on Windows OS as well. It is very useful in terms of network troubleshooting and performance measurement. netstat is one of the most basic network service debugging tools, telling you what ports are open and whether any programs are listening on ports.

And if that doesn't work, what's the next card to play – terrorism or satanic panic? Apple, fearing regulators will force it to allow people to sideload whatever apps they like on their own iOS devices, has published a paper arguing about the importance of its oversight. The iGiant also sent a letter to US lawmakers warning of supposed harm if its gatekeeping is disallowed.…

On Linux, package managers help you handle updates, uninstalls, troubleshooting, and more for the software on your computer. Seth Kenlon wrote about dnf, the command-line package management tool for installing software in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, OpenMandriva, and other Linux distros. read more

Nagios is a free, open-source, and powerful monitoring tool that helps you to monitor your entire IT infrastructure, servers, services, and applications from the central location. It is based on a client-server architecture. So you will need to install the Nagios agent on the client system and add it to the Nagios server for monitoring. Is there a way to do it by yourself? Of course, there is. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nagios 4 and monitor your server on Ubuntu 20.04.

Deploying the ultimate stateful code in a stateless environment is a 'tricky business' IDC guru opines. A leading analyst has warned big, non-tech companies against database deployments in the Kubernetes, dubbing the approach as “emerging technology” for enterprises.…

Recently, GitHub added a small indicator that shows details about projects, including what programming languages a project uses. Before this, it was hard for new contributors to know this type of information about the projects they were interested in.

I run Linux as my primary operating system, and I boot FreeDOS in a virtual machine. Most of the time, I use QEMU as my PC emulator, but sometimes I'll run other experiments with GNOME Boxes (which uses QEMU as a back-end virtual machine) or with VirtualBox.

Python is often considered to be one of the most powerful, adaptable, and easy-to-learn high-level programming languages for developing websites, operating system components, applications to games and so much more.

Signal is a widely-used Open source messenger app for smartphones. But you can also use Signal from your Linux Desktop. This guide describes three ways to install the Signal Messenger app on Ubuntu 20.04 or Linux Mint 20.