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In some ways, ZFS on Linux still falls short from the ZFS on Solaris. It is fully ingrained in the Solaris ecosystem, from the boot environment all the way to the graphical user experience. You could even manage your snapshots and more from GNOME. Adding root support for ZFS is a wonderful next step for the Ubuntu distribution. However, I am more intrigued to see what comes next in the integration of ZFS from within the Ubuntu operating environment.

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update. read more

What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A barrel of monkeys with a web management interface, of course.

Twitter Lite is a progressive web app that is designed actually for mobile users but can work on any device using web browsers. Today in this article, we will see how we can install and use Twitter on Ubuntu desktop.

Every file and directory on a Linux system is owned by someone, and the owner has complete control to change or delete the files they own. In addition to having an owning user, a file has an owning group. You can view the ownership of a file using the ls -l command: read more

This guide talks about three commandline tools to view image metadata on Linux.

The development team behind the Neptune Linux operating system have released a new major version that's based upon the latest Debian GNU/Linux release.

In this DevOps world, it sometimes appears the Dev half gets all the limelight, with Ops the forgotten half in the relationship. It's almost as if the leading Dev tells the trailing Ops what to do, with almost everything "Ops" being whatever Dev says it should be. Ops, therefore, gets left behind, punted to the back, relegated to the bench. I'd like to see more OpsDev happening. So let's look at a handful of things Ansible can help you do with your day-to-day Ops life.  read more

Hardkernel has released a media player bundle of its Odroid-N2 SBC loaded with CoreELEC, an Amlogic-optimized fork of LibreELEC. The CoreELEC Edition costs $65 (2GB RAM) or $75 (4GB) with case, PSU, and 8GB microSD card. Hardkernel has launched an Odroid-N2 CoreELEC Edition that combines the open-spec, community backed Odroid-N2 SBC with CoreELEC — a […]

VestaCP is a free, open-source and powerful website control panel that comes with website, email, database, and DNS functionalities. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and configure VestaCP on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer). read more

Install Mattermost on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx reverse proxy and secure it with Let's Encrypt SSL cerificate.

For about the last 6 weeks I have been working on a thorough and unique Chromebook Comparison Guides, where I compare Chromebooks in nearly every single aspect including, on which Chromebooks a person can install Gallium OS and what Chromebooks has Linux Apps (Crostini) support, etc.

In a previous post, we looked at what RPM packages are. They are archives that contain files and metadata. This metadata tells RPM where to create or remove files from when an RPM is installed or uninstalled. The metadata also contains information on “dependencies”, which you will remember from the previous post, can either be […]

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2DayGeek: This tutorial will teach you everything about ls command. Especially it's more useful for Linux beginners.

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. It is used for developing websites, writing scripts, machine learning, analyzing data and more.

This article is about how to Use Rsync. Also the article talks about a great GUI utility called Grsync based on Rsync that makes it very easy to use Rsync. Grsync can be used to sync up directories between two remote servers. Read the article to learn about more.

The stickers have recently been very popular with smartphones owners and laptops users, as it’s enabling them to personalize their electronic items. Linux users are a big fan of stickers, and that even boast of using Linux and open source software. Today, as a Linux user and open source software fan, I would like to share with you a valuable collection of posters to decorate your electronic collections and show your admiration and love for the GNU Linux system.