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What's your favorite Linux distribution? Take our 7th annual poll. Some have come and gone, but there are hundreds of Linux distributions alive and well today. The combination of distribution, package manager, and desktop creates an endless amount of customized environments for Linux users.

Git commit messages are crucial : they are used in order to describe and share with others what you did. They are also used when trying to hotfix issues happening on your master branches. In this tutorial, you are going to learn how you can create Git commits with messages.

Sitecopy is a tool for copying locally stored websites to a remote web server (via FTP or WebDAV). It helps you to keep the remote site in sync with your local copy by uploading modified local files and deleting remote files deleted on the local computer. This tutorial shows you how to manage your remote site from your local Ubuntu 18.04 desktop with Sitecopy.

What we unfortunately notice in a lot of discussions online about Linux distributions is that people tend to use that ranking in an attempt to figure out which distribution is more popular than the other. But this is totally wrong.

Imagine you bought a new laptop with a shiny new USB-C docking station. You install fresh Fedora, encrypt your hard drive because laptop is a travel equipment and you do not want to travel around with non-ecrypted hard drive. You finish the installation, close the lid because you have external monitor, reboot the […]

Linux ranks third in the operating system market, and since the beginning of the new millennium, it has entered the best desktop operating system struggle after it won the title of the best server system “undisputedly”, so the GNU Linux developers began making plans to bring in more users, but it was not as effective as expected (in another article, we will take a look at these plans and the reasons for their lack of effectiveness)...

In this guide you going to learn how to install ElasticSearch and configure it with your WordPress and optimize the search queries using ElasticPress WordPress plugin.

The open-spec “Lindenis V536” SBC runs Linux on the Cortex-A7-based Allwinner V536, a 4k camera-oriented SoC with integrated ISP and VPU. The 130 x 85mm SBC design is built in an SoM plus baseboard configuration. Lindenis Tech Ltd., a Shenzhen, China startup staffed by former Allwinner employees, has released the Lindenis V536, an open spec, […]

If you’re using the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) operating system on your personal computer or server, you should know that it has reached end of life on January 23rd, 2020.

Most of the computer geeks are familiar with the Internet Download Manager tool. Although it is one of the best among download managers; being a soldier of open source software, I decided to share pyIDM as an alternative for anyone who is passionate about computer programming.

As outlined in two previous posts, we believe that the sale of the nonprofit Public Interest Registry (PIR) to Ethos Capital demands close and careful scrutiny. ICANN — the body that granted the dot org license to PIR and which must approve the sale — needs to engage in this kind of scrutiny.

WildFly, formerly known as JBoss, is a free, open-source, and cross-platform application server which is now developed by Red Hat. In this article, we will explain how a Debian administrator can install and configure Wildfly on his system.

In today’s article, we’ll give you 5 possible reasons for why you may consider using Manjaro as your daily driver OS.

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. read more

timeout is a command-line utility that runs a specified command and terminates it if it is still running after a given period of time.

In this article, I am going to show you seven commands that can be used to check memory usage and swap space in Debian 10.

OpenVAS is an open-source Vulnerability Assessment System that can be used to run the test against servers for known vulnerabilities. Checkout the post on how to install and configure openVAS on Ubuntu.

This tutorial shows the difference between RHEL8 vs RHEL7 vs RHEL6.

Being able to validate your network connection speed puts you in control of your computer. Three open source tools that enable you to check your internet and network speeds at the command line are Speedtest, Fast, and iPerf. Speedtest Speedtest is an old favorite. It's implemented in Python, packaged in Apt, and also available with pip. You can use it as a command-line tool or within a Python script. Install it with: read more

Vokoscreen is a screen recording tool that can be used to record educational videos, do live recordings of the browser, installation, and video conferences. You can capture a video with (via ALSA or PulseAudio) or without sound.