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Secure shell (SSH) is a powerful tool for remote administration, but it lacks some niceties. Writing a full-fledged remote administration console sounds like it would be a lot of work. Surely, someone in the open source community has already written something? They have, and its name is Jupyter. You might think Jupyter is one of those tools data scientists use to analyze trends in ad clicks over a week or something. This is not wrong—they do, and it is a great tool for that. But that is just scratching its surface. read more

Why build a Kubernetes cluster with Raspberry Pi devices? Welcome to an easy, affordable route to Kubernetes education and experimentation

The top utility needs little introduction to seasoned Linux users. top is a small utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It allows users to monitor the processes that are running on a system. BpyTOP is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

Varnish Cache is a free and open-source reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator for websites and APIs. It can be installed as a reverse proxy in front of any web server running on HTTP.

Linux namespaces, including PID namespaces, are one of the key technologies that enable containers to run in isolated environments. Learn how PID namespaces work and the benefits they provide.

The Linux Foundation announced that it will launch an LF Climate Finance Foundation initiative to encourage investment in AI-enhanced open source analytics to address climate change. Task number one: build an “OS-Climate” risk modeling platform for investors. As the world grapples with pressing issues such as Covid-19, the climate continues to grow hotter and more […]

This brief guide explains how to find and list startup services at boot in Linux and Unix-like systems.

Computer maker HP announced its latest offering Z series of laptops with certified Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

This article explains how to install and uninstall GNOME System Monitor in a Debian system. We will describe the installation process both via GUI and the command line. We will also explain some of the basic operations that you can perform with the system monitor.

As of today, Canonical’s upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) operating system is now powered by the Linux 5.8 kernel series, which will also be the kernel used in the final release.

There's a new security-oriented Linux for containers in town from Amazon and its name is Bottlerocket. Instead of being built almost entirely in C, it includes many components written in Rust.

The KDE Project announced today KDE Applications 20.08.1, which is dubbed as the September 2020 Apps Update for the Plasma desktop environment.

libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. You can use this to view and edit files inside guests, scripting changes to VMs, monitoring disk used/free statistics, creating guests, P2V, V2V, performing backups, cloning VMs, and building VMs, formatting disks, resizing disks, and much more.

User groups play an important role in any Linux operating system and its distributions. Groups make it easier to manage larger amounts of users, giving you the ability to give all of them the same security and access privileges. Let’s show you how to add users to groups on a Linux VPS.

Congatec has launched two compute modules based on Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, supporting new features like USB 4.0 and PCIe 4.0: a “Conga-TC570” COM Express Compact and a “Conga-HPC/cTLU” that uses the new 800-pin COM-HPC form factor. Congatec followed up on Intel’s launch of its 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs with two Tiger […]

Canonical and HP announced that HP’s Z family of laptops and workstations are now certified with the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series.

Chromium is a fast, stable, and secure browser built for the modern web. It is the base of many browsers, including the most popular web browser in the world Google Chrome . This article explains two ways of installing Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04. Chromium can be installed as a snap package via the Snapcraft store or as a deb package from the Google repositories.

Dividing by 8 to speak the same language doesn't seem that difficult, but it is.

Some times you might want to run an application (especially a web application) 24/7 in full-screen mode. In this guide, we will see how to launch web browsers in kiosk mode (full screen) from command line in Linux.

The privacy-centric yet minimal browser Min brings another release with its version 1.16 with UI improvements and major new features.