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In the previous article on RPM package building, you saw that source RPMS include the source code of the software, along with a “spec” file. This post digs into the spec file, which contains instructions on how to build the RPM. Again, this article uses fpaste as an example. Understanding the source code Before you […]

We’re supposed to be feeling joyous and victorious because — good news, everybody! — even all the technology giants are nowadays claiming to have ‘opened up’

The Apache web server is file-based configuration system so it is very easy to configure and you can configure dynamically for any new configuration. This article explains Apache configuration directories for all operating systems.

Linux Lite creator Jerry Bezencon announced today the official release and general availability of the Linux Lite 4.6 operating system.

Adding and deleting users is one of the most basic tasks when starting from a fresh Debian 10 server. Adding user can be quite useful. As your host grows, you want to add new users, assign them special permissions, like sudo rights for example. In this tutorial, we are going all the ways to add and delete users on Debian 10 hosts.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new edition of his RaspEX operating system for Raspberry Pi devices featuring the Kodi media centre and designed for the new Raspberry Pi 4.

Knowing how to remove packages is an essential part of Linux system administration.

A roundup of Linux news.

GitHub Actions are a powerful new addition to GitHub, but versioning your builds can be tricky.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his ExTiX "The Ultimate Linux System" operating system with a fresh new base and updated components.

One of our readers has decided to clarify to us why the FSF is, in this reader’s personal view, doing damage to itself by discouraging particular types of dissent

Icinga 2 is a modern open-source network monitoring application which can be used to monitor the network infrastructure and check the health of servers and their services. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2 and all the required components on a Debian 9 VPS.

Created in 2012 at SoundCloud, Prometheus is a time series database used in DevOps for real time monitoring. Prometheus is part of an ecosystem that provides alerting, dashboarding as well as a whole set of tools to bind to your existing datasources but Docker is a virtualization platform that provides a way to easily create, manage and run containers in a single node environment or a cluster. In this tutorial, we are going to install Prometheus with Docker as well as setting up a basic configuration for Prometheus.

There are many excellent resources available to teach you how to run an open source project—how to set up the collaboration tools, how to get the community engaged, etc. But there is much less out there about open source strategy; that is, about how to use well-considered open source investments to support an overall mission. read more

Three ways are available in Red Hat based systems to exclude certain packages from yum update.

SDCV is a dictionary utility you can run on your Linux Terminal. Learn how you can install a dictionary on Linux Terminal and look up words with commands.

Secure your systems with multiple SSH keys without losing your mind

Swappiness is a Linux kernel property that sets the balance between swapping out pages from the physical memory to the swap space and removing pages from the page cache. It basically defines how often the system will use the swap space.

To run Mac apps on Linux, you'll need some sort of virtual machine or translation layer. You can either make use of Virtualbox, or Darling translation layer

Free/Open Source software (FOSS) and (GNU/)Linux don’t quite change the world as much as they’re being changed by monopolies (software, hardware and entertainment) to suit their agenda and eliminate any remnants of freedom