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In this tutorial, we are taking a look at the Blackbox exporter for Prometheus. The Blackbox exporter is a tool that allows engineers to monitor HTTP, DNS, TCP and ICMP endpoints. Results can be visualized in modern dashboard tools such as Grafana.

The (mis)use of the term "Open Source" to promote monopolies has become so profound that even corporate media such as Forbes takes note of it (but obviously defends the practice)

Here is an eight-way benchmark comparison on the AMD EPYC 7742 2P Daytona server with its 128 cores / 256 threads.

The Openssh set of utilities let us create secure, encrypted connections between machines. In this tutorial we will take a look at some of the most useful options we can use to change the behavior of sshd, the Openssh daemon in order to make your Linux system administration job easier. In this article we assume the existence of an already running and accessible server. If you want to know more about OpenSSH installation, you can take a look at this article on how to install SSH server on Ubuntu Linux.

In a lot of discussions about which desktops are better on Linux, people seem to forget that Cinnamon exists, although it’s one of the best desktops out there that you may try. Here's why we think that in a long-detailed article.

The KDE Community has spoken! On the first day of Akademy 2019, Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V., announced the three new goals we will prioritize over the next 2 years. The goals were selected by community vote from a dozen proposals, all created by community members. Read on to learn more details about each of the new goals.

On Debian 10, users are able to change their password pretty easily.

It is also possible, if you have sudo rights, to change user passwords as well as to define rules for password change on the host.

In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can change the user password on Debian 10 through the command-line and the user interface if you are using a GNOME desktop.

Maybe you’ve been through an agile project that looked like this: Design, build, test, deploy, and then blame other internal teams when the agile project fails. Here’s how to do better

Slack is one of the most popular collaboration platforms in the world that brings all your communication together.

on DL137 - An interview with Emma Marshall of System76; Microsoft Brings exFAT to Linux; Pinebook Pro Available Now; Gamepad Support Comes To Linux In Steam Proton; Software Spotlight and Tips & Tricks.

In the previous article we touched upon some of the new features introduced to Cockpit over the years. This article will look into some of the tools within the UI to perform everyday storage management tasks. To access these functionalities, install the cockpit-storaged package: sudo dnf install cockpit-storaged From the main screen, click the Storage […]

An explanation of what Microsoft hopes to reduce Linux to; it’s not a new strategy as it goes back at least five years

The importance of Stallman’s legacy is both symbolic and instructive. It is symbolic, in that he — not Torvalds — has spent his life committed to freedom.

Microsoft will be hosting a community conference on the Windows Subsystem for Linux and related technologies in March 2020.

Chromebook runs Google Chrome browser by default. If you are not a fan of Google Chrome, here is how you can install Firefox on Chromebook.

Pandora Flexible Monitoring Solution (FMS) is all-purpose monitoring software, which means it can control network equipment, servers (Linux and Windows), virtual environments, applications, databases, and a lot more. It can do both remote monitoring and monitoring based on agents installed on the servers. You can get collected data in reports and graphs and raise alerts if something goes wrong. read more

The terminal emulator is a venerable but essential tool for everyone using the command line. There are so many terminal emulators available for Linux that the choice is, frankly, bamboozling. This article looks at Hyper, one of the newer terminal emulators available. It’s built with web technologies – JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

Citadel is a free, web-based, open source, email and groupware solution for Linux and BSD.

You can add color to your Linux terminal using special ANSI encoding settings, either dynamically in a terminal command or in configuration files, or you can use ready-made themes in your terminal emulator. Either way, the nostalgic green or amber text on a black screen is wholly optional. This article demonstrates how you can make Linux as colorful (or as monochromatic) as you want. read more

Did you know you can passwordless SSH? Here's how, and how to decide whether you should