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In part I, we took a look at the design of password authentication systems for old-school multiuser systems. While timesharing is mostly gone, most of us continue to use multiuser …

Users have several options when it comes to encryption tools for Linux. There are also some easy-to-use commands and a script that make the process even easier.

Arne Exton informs me today about a new release of his RaspEX Kodi Linux OS for Raspberry Pi computers, which is now supported on the latest 8GB RAM Raspberry Pi 4 model.

Axiomtek’s Linux-ready “NA346” networking appliance is equipped with a Celeron N3350, 4x GbE ports with optional bypass, 2x USB 3.0, HDMI, and 2x mini-PCIe slots with mSATA and wireless support. Axiomtek has launched an entry-level “SD-WAN, VPN and security gateway for industrial IoT security applications.” The 146 x 118.2 x 33.5mm NA346 runs Yocto-based Linux […]

Claws Mail 3.17.6 has been released today as a maintenance update to this lightweight and open-source email client for GNU/Linux distributions.

Ansible is a great automation tool for system and network engineers, with Ansible we can automate small network to a large scale enterprise network. I have been using Ansible to automate both Aruba, and Cisco switches from my Fedora powered laptops for a couple of years. This article covers the requirements and executing a couple […]

Memcached is a free and open-source high-performance in-memory key-value data store. It is generally used to speed up applications by caching various objects from the results of API and database calls. The memcached package is included in the default Ubuntu 20.04 repositories. This article shows how to install and configure Memcached on Ubuntu 20.04.

Everyone likes to set up their workspaces in a specific way; it helps your productivity and makes life easier to have things organized in a way that feels organic and to have an environment that feels good to you. That definitely applies to terminals too; that's probably why there are so many terminal options available. When starting on a new computer, the very first thing I do is set up my terminal to make it my own. read more

'Higher fidelity local debugging experience' than debugging on Windows and deploying to Linux Hands On Microsoft has pushed out an extension for Visual Studio 2019 that lets developers run and debug a .NET Core application on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2).…

OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight and open-source version of the LiteSpeed Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OpenLiteSpeed Server on Ubuntu 20.04 along with PHP 7.4 and MariaDB server.

I am an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in a number of different roles—systems administrator, senior Linux administrator, DevOps engineer, automation consultant, and senior scrum master. I started learning Linux on Ubuntu but shifted to CentOS as a sysadmin, and later I moved to Fedora for personal use. But my joy for technology started much earlier than my first Linux distribution, and it came in the form of a movie. read more

As a colossal commit count crashes into Linux 5.8-rc5 Linux overlord overseer principal developer Linus Torvalds has signed off on a new policy to adopt inclusive language across the project.…

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update. read more

Nowadays Javascript can be easily defined as the world most used programming language: it is used on a variety of platforms, it is integrated in web browsers and thanks to the Node.js runtime it can also be used server-side. In this tutorial we will see the loops we can be used in modern Javascript.

Gradle is a general-purpose tool used to build, automate, and deliver software. It is primarily used for Java, C++, and Swift projects.

Back in the early 2000s, we made a family decision to upgrade the living room stereo. The equipment in place at the time was based on a collection of gear that I had purchased some 20 years earlier when I first had a steady post-university income. read more

Jenkins is a Java based software which can be installed from the Ubuntu packages. Jenkins is mainly used for Continues Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI CD). In this tutorial you are going to learn how to install Jenkins and configure Nginx as a reverse proxy to Jenkins and install free Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 20.04.

A new Linux Foundation hosted group will support open source data management and promote interoperability between applications and data sources, on premises or cloud-based.

The GNOME Project announced the general availability of GNOME 3.36.4 as the fourth of nine maintenance updates to the latest GNOME 3.36 desktop environment series.

In this article, we will learn how you can install Windows Applications on Linux using the PlayOnLinux. First, we will describe how you can install PlayOnLinux on Debian 10 both through the command line and the graphical user interface. Then, we will describe how you can use the PlayOnLinux for installing a Windows application