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In this tutorial, we will go through the process which will help you to install the latest release CentOS 8 through a manual installation and a good understanding of the partitioning schemes that it offers.

On Linux, you sometimes need to work with disks and/or partitions directly from the command line. lsblk displays information about storage devices.

The relationship between CentOS and Red Hat is important because CentOS has a huge installed base, mostly comprised of well-staffed enterprises wanting to take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's rock-solid stability, but without the expense of a Red Hat support subscription.

Nextcloud is a free and open-source cloud storage platform one can easily setup. It is the best free & open-source alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox.

The third article in this series demonstrated how to use failure and unit testing to develop better code. While it seemed that the journey was over with a successful sample Internet of Things (IoT) application to control a cat door, experienced programmers know that solutions need mutation. read more

It isn't all that often, but kernel upgrades can and do go wrong. When the updated kernel causes issues, learn how you can downgrade the kernel in Linux.

On DL140 - Linux Kernel 5.3 Released, Oracle Autonomous Linux, Stallman Resigns, AMD Epyc Processors Break World Records, Microsoft Employee Reaches Out, The Great Geometric Multiverse Tour.

It's not a joke, it's a programming language tuned for distributed systems At the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis, Missouri, earlier this month, Paul Chiusano, founder of Unison Computing, gave the audience a tour of Unison, an emerging programming language designed for building distributed systems.…

Let's break down IPv6 packets and take a look at how IPSec is implemented in this protocol.

Red Hat has built its own tools, buildah and podman, which aim to be compatible with existing docker images and work without relying on a daemon, allowing the creation of containers as normal users, without the need of special permissions (with some limitations: e.g. at the moment of writing, it's still not possible to map host ports to the container without privileges).

During the troubleshooting of services running on a Linux system, checking open ports is one of the tasks any user or administrator should consider performing. If a service is expected to be running but for some reason it's not, then most likely the port associated with that service is closed and should be opened.

The battle for digital freedom has long been lost in kernel space; earlier this year Techrights analysed the complete source code of Linux to find DRM already well entrenched inside the kernel and it keeps spreading further (Linux is becoming the very thing the FSF objected to in Windows Vista; it is “Open Source Proprietary Software”)

Games are one of the features that are on the computer. People play games as a medium of entertainment, but there are some people who become professional gamers. Lots of cool games available on PC devices.

ProtoCentral’s open source “Healthy Pi v4” HAT for vital sign monitoring advances from the v3 model with an ESP32 SoC with WiFi AP and BT-BLE and a battery for portable use including a wearable mode without a Raspberry Pi. In 2017, Bangalore, India-based ProtoCentral launched its HealthyPi v3 HAT for the Raspberry Pi for low-cost […]

The new "free" major Linux server operating system is here.

Configure GRUB2 Boot Loader settings in Ubuntu desktop systems.

Before you can use an SD card or USB drive, it needs to be formatted and partitioned. Typically most USB drives and SD cards come preformatted using the FAT file system and do not need to be formatted out of the box. However, in some cases, you may need to format the drive.

The Debian Project released a new Linux kernel security update for all supported versions of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system to address several security vulnerabilities.

Linux darling faces the lawyers over Shotwell shenanigans. The GNOME Foundation, maker of the eponymous Linux desktop, has been hit with a sueball over how its Shotwell photo manager, er, manages photos.…

Valve and CodeWeavers have once again updated Steam Play Proton as they react quickly to issues that appear. This open source compatibility layer for Linux is progressing very nicely.