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dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

As a Linux administrator, it’s important to keep an eye on how your server (or servers) is performing. One way to measure its performance is to track the CPU usage. This will give you insight into the performance of the system as well as show how the hardware resources are being divided up across the various running services.

The Bash sequence expression generates a range of integers or characters by defining a start and the end point of the range.

In this article we discuss using the uniq command to print or remove adjacent duplicated lines. We also discuss the different between uniq and sort -u, which are often compared as having the same functionality.

Linus Torvalds has released today the first RC (Release Candidate) milestone of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.6 series, kicking off the one and a half months long development cycle.

Jenkins – How to build a specific branch on GitHub. In this guide you are going to learn how to configure Jenkins to trigger build automatically once a change is made to a specific branch in GitHub.

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. Redis provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning across multiple Redis nodes with Redis Cluster. This guide covers the installation and configuration of Redis on CentOS 8.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in so it's time to show the top five for each group.

With only one month left until its final release, the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing.

There's a lot to be learned from open source projects. After all, managing hundreds of disparate, asynchronous commits and bugs doesn't happen by accident. Someone or something has to coordinate releases, and keep all the code and project roadmaps organized. It's a lot like life. You have lots of tasks demanding your attention, and you have to tend to each in turn. To ensure everything gets done before its deadline, you try to stay organized and focused.

Automation takes control of manual, laborious, and error-prone processes and replaces engineers performing manual tasks with computers running automation scripts. Everyone agrees that manual processes are a foe of a healthy DevOps mindset. Some argue that automation is not a good thing because it replaces hard-working engineers, while others realize that it boosts consistency, reliability, and efficiency, saves time, and (most importantly) enables engineers to work smart.

CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.5. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version has many security fixes included. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, February 10, 2020 through Monday, February 17, 2020. Refer […]

If you like the Microsoft Windows 10 tiling style, you can easily get your GNOME Shell desktop to support it with the help of an extension called WinTile. The extension brings quarter tiling functionality to GNOME Shell, using the Super/Win + Arrow keys or using the mouse (with previews and snapping when dragging the windows to the edges).

A post explaining how a command to find date palindromes in the Linux shell works.

semanage command is not found in CentOS 7 / CentOS 8 and RHEL 7 / RHEL 8 minimal editions. Here is how to find which package provides semanage command and install it.

My goal for 2020 is to improve my Spanish, and I intend to use the open educational resources described below to help me along my long path towards fluency. These suggestions are by no means an exhaustive list of resources for learning Spanish. The items included are all open resources, which means they are either shared under an open license or are in the public domain.

Another fresh release of the Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer, DXVK, was released today which continues their cycle of bug fixing.

netstat command not found in CentOS 7, 8 and RHEL 7, 8. Here is how to get the netstat command working in CentOS 7/8 and RHEL 7/8 systems.

Used by system administrators on a daily basis, the ping command, relying on the ICMP protocol, retrieves operational information about remote hosts.

However, pinging hosts is not always sufficient : you may need to ping a specific port on your server. This specific port might be related to a database, or to an Apache web server or even to a proxy server on your network.