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There are ways you can join the fight to beat the pandemic that require neither money nor an at-home bedroom-turned-virus-laboratory. Distributing computing projects, in which individuals contribute computing processing power or data crunching, can contribute to analyzing and modeling data in the fight against the coronavirus.

Redis is an open-source in-memory key-value data store. It can be used as a database, cache and, message broker, and supports various data structures such as Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, and more. This tutorial describes how to install and configure Redis on Ubuntu 20.04.

Michael Tremer announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.25 Core Update 145, a new maintenance update of this popular Linux-based, open-source and free firewall distribution.

Made on a low-powered Linux laptop, the action-roguelike Burning Knight is well worth a look.

The COVID-19 pandemic disturbed the work of event organizers everywhere. To slow the spread of this highly contagious virus, conferences that tend to host thousands in person faced a choice: Move entirely online, or cancel altogether. Many open source event organizers chose the latter, but not all of them. read more

ZFS comes with a snapshots feature for you to revert your operating system to an earlier state. Learn how to use ZFS snapshots in Ubuntu 20.04.

This guide explains the steps you need to move Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes.

Memcached is an open-source, high-performance, and general-purpose distributed memory caching system. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Memcached on Ubuntu 20.04.

Ephemeral containers are useful, but sometimes data needs to persist between containers or be shared among multiple containers. The solution is mounting external volumes inside the containers, and this is done in Kubernetes with persistent volumes. In large, public cloud deployments, Kubernetes has integrations with the cloud providers' block-storage backends, allowing developers to create claims for volumes to use with their deployments, and Kubernetes works with the cloud provider to create a volume and mount it in the developers' pods. read more

Dropping Snap support on Linux Mint 20 forces me to consider Linux Lite 5.0 as a preferred choice of light weight clone for Ubuntu 20.04. Snapd daemon could be installed on Linux Lite 5.0 with no issues. So Gnome 3 Desktop installation might be done via "sudo snap install" as quite straight forward procedure.

Remote training isn't new but it certainly is the standard for distance learning. Find out how you can make the most of training during difficult times.

The Fedora CoreOS team released the first Fedora CoreOS testing release based on Fedora 32. They expect that this release will promote to the stable channel in two weeks, on the usual schedule. As a result, the Fedora CoreOS and QA teams have organized a test day on Monday, June 08, 2020. Refer to the […]

Firefly’s open-spec, $119-and-up “Core-3399Pro-JD4” module runs Linux or Android on a 3-TOPS NPU-enabled RK3399Pro. The module is available as part of a $199 and up “AIO-3399PRO-JD4” dev kit. While we were reporting on the Rockchip RK3399-based Station P1 Geek Mini PC and Face X2 facial recognition device this week we noticed another Rockchip based product […]

With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run Wayland compositors with zero-copy graphics, including GNOME 3. We can run every scene in glmark2-es2, 3D games like Neverball can be played, and video players mpv and Kodi are now supported.

June 7 marks Kubernetes' 6th birthday. Let's look at six things you might not know about the orchestration platform that's a containerized application's best friend

In Bash and other Linux shells, when a program is executed, it uses three standard I/O streams. Each stream is represented by a numeric file descriptor: The program output goes to the standard input stream and the error messages goes to the standard error stream. By default, both input and error streams are printed on the screen.

The popular desktop Linux distribution, Linux Mint, wants nothing to do with Ubuntu's Snap software installation system.

Excelfore announced a development kit for its eSync Automotive OTA software that includes two Raspberry Pi’s that emulate device and gateway. CAN expansion boards will be added soon. Excelfore has launched a Linux-based development kit for its eSync OTA software for automotive over-the-air updates and data aggregation. The company refers to the kit as the […]

Kernel 5.7 is the first to contain development work accomplished amid the lockdown measures. Despite these significant changes, Collaborans have been steadfast in their contributions, with multiple projects progressing. Here's the recap.

Did you forget mysql root user password? This brief guide explains how to reset MySQL root user password in Linux operating systems.