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In 1972, Dennis Ritchie was at Bell Labs, where a few years earlier, he and his fellow team members invented Unix. After creating an enduring OS (still in use today), he needed a good way to program those Unix computers so that they could perform new tasks. It seems strange now, but at the time, there were relatively few programming languages; Fortran, Lisp, Algol, and B were popular but insufficient for what the Bell Labs researchers wanted to do. read more

The bi-weekly release cycle of the latest Mesa 20.1 open source graphics stack for the Linux desktop continues with Mesa 20.1.6, the latest stable Vulkan/OpenGL graphics drivers update.

In this interview Swapnil Bhartiya, creator of TFiR, sat down with Shuli Goodman, Executive Director of LF Energy to discuss the role open source and the foundation is playing in helping the energy sector to embark on its own digital transformation and cloud-native journey. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

Check out how to install and enable Xrdp for remote Login to Ubuntu Server

Kali Linux is the best penetration testing distribution with hundreds of tools for testing different devices and services. In Kali Linux 2020.3 update, the team has made several important changes to Kali that make it much better.

How about a sysadmin tool that helps you to "relax and recover?" ReaR does that.

Fail2ban is a tool that helps protect your Linux machine from brute-force and other automated attacks by monitoring the services logs for malicious activity. It uses regular expressions to scan log files.

In this guide, our goal is to learn about the tools and environment provided by a typical GNU/Linux system to be able to start troubleshooting even on an unknown machine. To do so, we will go through two simple example issues: we will solve a desktop and server side problem.

This article will explain how to install and configure the Samba server on a Debian system. We will also learn how to access these shared files from Linux or Windows machines.

Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe. Google's Chromium Project has acknowledged its growing interest in adding more Rust code to the mostly C++ Chromium codebase.…

Advantech’s AIMB-233 is a thin Mini-ITX SBC that runs Linux on 8th Gen Whiskey Lake CPUs. The board serves up 32GB DDR4 DRAM, triple HDMI displays support, 2x GbE, 8x USB, 3x SATA III and -20 to 70°C operation temp. Advantech has released its AIMB-233, a low-profile industrial-grade thin Mini-ITX SBC. The AIMB-233 is powered […]

For this week’s blog on the AWOW AK41, Luke looks at emulating home computers such as the Amiga, Atari ST, and the ZX Spectrum. Heady days in the early 1980s.

Debian-based Linux distro MX Linux is now offering KDE flavors. This is an excellent choice for people who want to have a modern desktop on a moderate system specs.

Metabase is a free and open-source business intelligence tool that can be used to search data sets and display information. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Metabase on Ubuntu 20.04 with Nginx and Let's Encrypt SSL.

Installing Vagrant is quite easy! In this tutorial, we will see how to install Vagrant on Linux operating systems.

A look at tcpdump and its options, as well as a real-world use case, for debugging networking issues in your Linux environment

Audio components for your computer don’t always produce the quality of sound you want. For instance your laptop speakers may be a bit “tinny” sounding, or a set of speakers for your desktop may be too boomy for your room. Or if you use a desk or headset microphone, you may find that recordings you […]

Apache Cassandra's upcoming 4.0 release includes new features to help organizations monitor user activity in the database. These features provide a robust set of enterprise-class audit capabilities that can help companies meet their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), and other regulatory and security requirements.

Take our poll to let us know what programming language you learned first. Share your earliest programming memories in the comments.

DNS cache (or sometimes called a DNS resolver cache) is a small temporary database maintained by the operating systems. This brief guide explains all possible ways to clear or flush DNS cache in Linux operating systems.