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While cloud storage offers many advantages, there's nothing quite like having your data on a physical hard drive. When you save data to a drive, you know exactly where your data is, and it's always available when you need it. When you save data to an external portable drive like a USB thumb drive, it's even better—not only do you know where your data is, but you can take your data with you everywhere you go. read more

Python is one of the most popular and powerful programming languages available. Because it’s free and open source, it’s available to everyone — and most Fedora systems come with the language already installed. Python is useful for a wide variety of tasks, but among them is processing comma-separated value (CSV) data. CSV files often start […]

Failed defamation claim proves pricey After three years of legal wrangling, the defamation lawsuit brought by Brad Spengler and his company Open Source Security (OSS) against open-source pioneer Bruce Perens has finally concluded.…

Debian-based and systemd-free antiX 19.2 distribution is now available for download as a bugfix release that also updates various core components and applications.

This brief guide explains the right way to edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group files using vipw and vigr commands in Linux operating systems.

The history command isn't always about reducing key presses. Find out how you can leverage command history into more efficient system administration.

Logical volume management is still a mystery to some sysadmins. Begin to unravel the mysteries in this first installment of a short series covering LVM. https://red.ht/2ykWxXN via #EnableSysadmin

Right after setting up Ubuntu Focal Fossa instance on bare metal run following commands to setup bridge br1 linked to physical interface enp2s0 which was used as normal connection to office LAN during install . . .

In this article, we will explain how you can install and use the famous Sox command-line utility in order to listen to mp3s in your Terminal.

In this tutorial, we'll be installing vsftpd (Very Secure Ftp Daemon) on CentOS 8. It is a stable, secure and fast FTP server. We'll also show you how to configure vsftpd to restrict users to their home directory and encrypt the data transmission with SSL/TLS.

Open-source developers are uniting to create and improve code and programs to help fight COVID-19.

UMASK in Linux or Unix systems is known as User Mask or it is also called as User file creation Mask. This is a base permission or default permission when a new file or folder is created in the Linux machine.

Anyone can use plain text to work more effectively. The one tool that you need in order to do that is a decent text editor. Unless you're a coder, a system administrator, or a DevOps person, that editor doesn't need to be brimming with functions and features. A lightweight text editor is more than enough for most people. When it comes to picking one, choices abound. You can use the editor that's baked into your Linux distribution, or you can consider one of these lightweight text editors: read more

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a cheap ventilator and is releasing the design to the open source community in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Steam Locomotive is a tiny C program, written in 295 lines of code. It’s just a harmless bit of fun.

We seek, through the episodes of this simple and humble series, to provide Linux, technology and science information (and other important information) in an interesting and funny way to “insert” the information into the mind of the follower and to instill principles and values in their personality.

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In this short tutorial, we cover see some simple commands that will help users learn how to open a file in linux or view its contents on the command line.

Repeatedly seeing “Enter password to unlock your login keyring” popup message in Ubuntu? It’s not an error but a security feature. Learn more about it.

In 2019, DigitalOcean and the open source community celebrated the sixth annual Hacktoberfest, an inclusive community event that inspires open source participation and maintenance. It was an exciting year with record-breaking numbers of pull requests, participants, and events around the world.

WordPress is the most popular and most widely-used content management system (CMS). It is the CMS of choice for 26% of the entire web. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing WordPress on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS with all necessary components, such as Apache web server, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB database server, and configure WordPress to use a database on a remote server.