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Canonical has officially open today the development cycle of the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series, which is expected to be released next spring.

Suppose you have a text file and you need to remove all of its duplicate lines. TL;DR To remove the duplicate lines while preserving their order in the file, use: read more

How to install, configure and use Cluster SSH to save time managing multiple servers. Whether you are a seasoned SysAdmin or budding DevOps engineer, cssh can increase your efficiency.

After nine years of releases, OpenStack executives claim the open source cloud effort is still on track, with the latest release loaded with features.

The history command displays a list of previously executed commands.

Microsoft’s Android apps are getting more and more popular, and today the company’s very own “Link to Windows” tool published in the Google Play Store conquered the leading place in the Top Free rankings.

Services which are also known as daemons, are scripts and programs that run in the background. These services, which require no user input, can provide many functionalities like database services (such as MySQL), or web server services (like Tomcat) etc…

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Microweber on a Debian 9 VPS.

As a system administrator, creating partitions on Linux for your disks is a very common task. You may want for example to add some extra space to some directories on your filesystem, or you simply want to extend your existing filesystems because you expect them to grow. Luckily for us, there are many ways to create disk partitions on Linux using command line tools such as fdisk and parted or graphical tools like gparted.

There are hundreds of different Linux distributions, each meeting the unique needs of its users. This diversity of distributions is what makes Linux the preferred operating system, but choosing the best one to get started can be quite daunting. First-timers need to take into consideration hardware, internet connection, installation method, desktop environment, support community, and more. So which one should a beginner choose? Take our Linux poll!

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a machine learning tool from Netflix, Microsoft's election software bug bounty, a cost-effective microscope built with Raspberry Pi, and more!

On Linux, hidden files are files that are not directly displayed when performing a standard ls directory listing. Hidden files, also called dot files on Unix operating systems, are files used in order to execute some scripts or to store configuration about some services on your host. Some popular example of hidden files are the files contained in the user home directory : .bashrc that stores user initialization scripts or .bash_logout that is executed whenever you leave a bash session.

Agile has become the default way of developing software; sometimes, it seems like every organization is doing (or wants to do) agile. But, instead of trying to change their culture to become agile, many companies try to impose frameworks like scrum onto developers, looking for a magic recipe to increase productivity. This has unfortunately created some bad experiences and leads developers to feel like agile is something they would rather avoid. This is a shame because, when it's done correctly, developers and their projects benefit from becoming involved in it.

This post is about enabling MySQL auto suggest and autocomplete using a small utility called mycli. Once installed, it enables users auto complete previous used commands, also prompts and auto suggests users with built in MySQL commands, available databases, tables and fields depending the command typed. Please read the post to learn more about it.

Dash to Panel, an icon taskbar for Gnome Shell, was updated to version 24, bringing support for vertical panel orientation (left or right of monitor), the ability to update the extension directly from the GitHub releases, and more.

Topics covered in this episode: Ubuntu 19.10 Adding ZFS Support, Project Trident Ditches FreeBSD For Linux, KDE Plasma 5.17 Released, System76 Gets Coreboot

If you've ever used a spreadsheet application, then you know that rows can be sorted by the contents of a column. For instance, if you have a list of expenses, you might want to sort them by date or by ascending price or by category, and so on. If you're comfortable using a terminal, you may not want to have to use a big office application just to sort text data. And that's exactly what the sort command is for. read more

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his ExTiX Linux distribution, based on Canonical's recently released Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system.

Shenzen Zunlong’s $19.90 “Orange Pi AI Stick Lite” USB stick features a GTI Lightspeeur SPR2801S NPU at up to 5.6 TOPS @ 100MHz. It’s supported with free, Linux-based AI model transformation tools. Shenzen Zunlong’s Orange Pi project has released an AI accelerator with a USB stick form factor equipped with Gyrfalcon Technology, Inc.’s Lightspeeur SPR2801S […]

PhpPgAdmin is an open-source web administration interface used for managing PostgreSQL databases. PhpPgAdmin is written in PHP and it makes the administration of PostgreSQL databases easier, not to mention the web-based GUI making everything more user-friendly and easier to use. Let’s begin with the installation process. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install phpPgAdmin on a Debian 9 VPS.