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Stressing your Linux servers can be a good idea if you'd like to see how well they function when they're loaded down. Here's a look at some tools that can help you add stress and gauge the results.

Ka-Ro’s 27 x 27mm, soldered-down “QSMP” module runs Linux on a Cortex-A7 based STM32MP1 with up to 512MB DDR3L, 4GB eMMC, and an optional dev kit. A recent i.MX8M Mini and Nano based QS8M with the same QFN form factor ships with an RPi-style devkit. German embedded vendor Ka-Ro Electronics has launched a QFN-style, solder-down […]

Let’s Encrypt is free and open an ssl certificate authority. The certificates, issued by Let’s Encrypt is trusted and suitable for almost all available browsers.

UK-based Linux computer manufacturer Star Labs announced today that they’re now offering the lightweight, Debian-based MX Linux distribution pre-installed on their Linux laptops.

jEnv is a command line tool to manage multiple java versions on Linux. jEnv is useful for developing java applications that requires an exact Java version.

Last Christmas, my wife and I traveled to my hometown of Ft. Pierce, Florida, and frequented a local establishment on the beach. There, we met a couple from The Midlands in the UK. The music was loud and so was the beer, so it was a bit hard to hear. Plus, even though it "seemed" they were speaking English, it was sometimes a challenge to understand what they were saying. I thought my time in Australia would have given me enough linguistic power, but, alas, a lot went over my head. There was more than the usual "soccer is football" or "trunk is a boot" sort of confusion. read more

Android Studio is the most widely used software for android mobile application development. In this article, we will show you how to install Android Studio on Ubuntu 20.04.

With more time at home, there’s never a better opportunity to embark on a new hobby. How about embroidery? Learning embroidery doesn’t have to be complicated, and it definitely shouldn’t feel like a huge investment of time and money. It’s actually an easy and inexpensive hobby. And there’s good free and open source software available that helps a lot with creating and modifying embroidery designs.

Webmin is a free, open-source, and web-based application used for managing Linux-based systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Webmin and secure it with Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Fedora Labs are pre-built images of Fedora 32 Workstation that provide users of several use cases access to an image bundled with the necessary software.

You hear good things about Ubuntu but may not be ready to make the jump. Learn how you can try Ubuntu without installing it on your computer.

In our daily use of Linux/Unix systems, we use many command-line tools to complete our work and to understand and manage our systems—tools like du to monitor disk utilization and top to show system resources. Some of these tools have existed for a long time. For example, top was first released in 1984, while du's first release dates to 1971. Over the years, these tools have been modernized and ported to different systems, but, in general, they still follow their original idea, look, and feel.

With the release of Fedora 32, regular users of Docker have been confronted by a small challenge. At the time of writing, Docker is not supported on Fedora 32. As such, this article can help you set up your Docker environment on Fedora 32.

A Linux terminal running Bash has a built-in history that you can use to track what you've been doing lately. To view a history of your Bash session, use the built-in command history.

Backups are necessary evils, even at home. Consider setting up network-attached storage to make them more manageable. You are considering a home NAS (network-attached storage device) because you have many documents at home that you need to keep backup copies of, right?

Canonical released today new security updates for the Linux kernel and NVIDIA graphics drivers to address several vulnerabilities in several of the supported Ubuntu Linux releases.

Do we teach people to code just so they can be forced to use GitHub, or so that they have a choice, or so they can help us fight against such a monopoly?

An Azure Snapshot is a read-only copy of the existing disk in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. We can create a snapshot of the OS or Data disk. This snapshot can be used as a backup. The snapshot can also be used to create a Virtual Machine. To create a Virtual Machine using a snapshot, it is better to shut down the VM before taking its snapshot. In this article, we will create a snapshot of the disk of the existing Virtual Machine.

Percepio announced 45-day free evaluation version of its Tracealyzer 4.4 trace diagnostics program, its first release to support embedded Linux. At Embedded World in February, Percepio announced that its latest Tracealyzer 4.4 visual trace diagnostics release added support for embedded Linux. Two weeks before, Wind River announced it was making the software available with its […]

If you need an advanced sysadmin tool for your toolbox, this is the one. Socat allows for bidirectional data transfers from one location to another.