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The popular LFS253 – Containers Fundamentals training course has relaunched today with updated content. The course features rewritten and expanded content, in line with recent advances to container technology. The course layout and labs have also been completely redesigned to enhance the user experience.

Google Compute Engine lets you use virtual machines that run on Google's infrastructure inside the Google Cloud Platform. In this article, we will demonstrate how to create a virtual machine (vm) using the Ubuntu 18.04 boot disk image in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer. The game will be playable on Proton with DX11 at launch. Post-launch, we'll be aiming to provide Vulkan and Linux support through subsequent updates.

If you work from home, you know how important it is to have a great set of tools that stay out of your way and let you focus on what matters. The harder you work during work hours, the more easily you can relax once the workday is through. I've been working from home for years, and here are my top picks for the best tools open source has to offer the remote worker. Jitsi video conferencing read more

Want to enjoy the latest Steam games on the biggest screen in your house? Find our how to stream Steam game with Steam Link on your Raspberry Pi 4.

One area I’ve not covered to date is utility software. Nestling in the Raspbian repositories are a ton of utilities from the essential to the wacky. File management is definitely a routine but important activity for any desktop user. Recognizing that file management software is deeply personal (causing almost as many conflicts as text editors), I’ve looked at a good spectrum of file managers this week.

I've had moments as a software engineer when I'm asked to do a task that sends shivers down my spine. One such moment was when I had to write an interface between some new hardware infrastructure that requires C and a cloud infrastructure, which is primarily Python. read more

PDF(Portable Document Format) is probably the most reliable and efficient way to share documents and files over the virtual world. By being unable to edit easily, PDFs are the securest way to share documents over the virtual world.

In this article, we will show two ways to install VLC Media player depending on whether you choose the graphical interface or the command line of your Debian system.

Disk partitions are the basis of storing our data on disks. To be able to handle partitions, in this part of RHCSA exam preparation tutorial we will add an empty disk to our test RHEL 8 system, and create, list, and delete a new partition on it.

An important Linux kernel security update has been released for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 6 and CentOS 6 systems to address two vulnerabilities and a couple of bugs.

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an open-source anti-virus framework used by millions of people and companies all around the world, providing free malware protection by default for everyone. It is especially effective on email servers, as it works on just about all possible MTAs (postfix, exim, etc). It is easy to set up, customizable, and has a reliable method of virus definition updates. In this tutorial, we’ll be explaining how to install ClamAV on your Debian 9 VPS, as well as how to use it to check for and remove any malware or security vulnerabilities.

Mono is a platform for developing and running cross-platform applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. It is a free and open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework.

The Fedora Project announced today the general availability of the beta release of the upcoming Fedora Linux 32 operating system.

The Twisted Requests (treq) package is an HTTP client built on the popular Twisted library that is used for asynchronous requests. Async libraries offer the ability to do large amounts of network requests in parallel with relatively little CPU impact. This can be useful in HTTP clients that need to make several requests before they have all the information they need. In this article, we'll work through an example of making async calls to explore using treq. read more

List symlinks or symbolic links or soft links in Linux.

Many open-source projects are taking on the challenge of conquering COVID-19.

X-Cart is an extremely flexible open-source eCommerce platform with tons of features and integrations. This guide describes the process of installing X-Cart 5 on Debian 10 by using Nginx as a web server and MariaDB as a database server.

During the 1960s and 1970’s, software developers typically used monolithic architectures on mainframes and minicomputers for software development, and no single application was able to satisfy the needs of most end-users. Vertical industries used software with a smaller code footprint with simpler interfaces to other applications, and scalability was not a priority at the time.

Chai is prepping a Coronavirus Environmental Testing Kit for its open source, BeagleBone-based Open qPCR system. The kit can test surfaces for Covid-19 from swab samples and return results within the hour. BeagleBoard.org announced that it will be donating BeagleBone Black SBCs for Chai’s project to widely deploy a Covid-19 environmental test kit that will […]