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GNOME, Java, Jupyter, Python. If your friends or family members have ever eavesdropped on your work conversations, they might think you've made a career in Renaissance folklore, coffee roasting, astronomy, or zoology. Where did the names of these open source technologies come from? We asked our writer community for input and rounded up some of our favorite tech name origin stories. read more

Have you ever wanted to set up a process monitor that alerts you when it's offline without spending thousands of budget dollars to do so? Every system administrator has, and here's how to do it.

In this article, we will describe how you can install some famous tools for online Radio streaming on your Ubuntu. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

When we delete a file from a filesystem, the data is not physically removed: the operating system simply marks the area previously occupied by the file, as free and makes it available to store new information. The only way to make sure data is actually removed from a device is to override it with other data. We may want to perform such operation for privacy reasons (maybe we plan to sell the device and we want to be sure the new owner cannot access our data), or maybe to prepare a device for encryption. In this tutorial we will see some tools we can use to completely wipe data on a device.

Anyone who may have a new Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi4) will love its improvements over the Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3). The only issue is at the time of this writing there wasn’t a 64-bit Operating System (OS) for it.

On DL141 CentOS Stream, Fedora 31 Better Multimedia Codec Support, Endeavour OS Release, Oracle Builds Super Computer with Pi, Shotwell Patent Trolls, Xbox/Windows Exclusivity Stance, Broken Lines RPG

Open-source veteran not above the odd speed increase Open-source database darling PostgreSQL emitted a new version of its eponymous database last night with more nods to standard SQL and a performance boost.…

2DayGeek: This article will help you to learn how to run the top command in Batch Mode.

//--> The quantum vision of reality is both strange and mesmerizing at the same time. As theoretical physicist Michio Kaku once said, "Common sense has no place in quantum mechanics." read more

When all you have to go on is a user report, how do you get started debugging server speed? We are here to help!

When working with Git, you might encounter a situation where you need to edit a commit message. There are number of reasons why you would want to make the change, such as fixing a typo, removing sensitive information, or adding additional information.

There are many reasons why a Root password may be lost or forgotten. In business settings it may be as simple as the administrator no longer works for the company.

The echo command may seem like a useless command, but under the hood it's surprisingly useful. Here are some ways to make use of the echo command in Linux.

The release of Fedora 31 drops the 32-bit i686 kernel, and as a result bootable images. While there may be users out there who still have hardware which will not work with the 64-bit x86_64 kernel, there are very few. However, this article gives you the whole story behind the change, and what 32-bit material […]

Prioritize applications’ CPU and IO scheduling is a good way to improve performance on what really matters. This can be actioned per command with nice and ionice commands, but there’s a better way. Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications.

Imagine not having access to a software's source code but still being able to understand how the software is implemented, find vulnerabilities in it, and—better yet—fix the bugs. All of this in binary form. It sounds like having superpowers, doesn't it? You, too, can possess such superpowers, and the GNU binary utilities (binutils) are a good starting point. The GNU binutils are a collection of binary tools that are installed by default on all Linux distributions. read more

Remarks on Richard Stallman, whose signature now emphasises that he founded the FSF and probably belongs back in its board

From all the web servers available, the Apache Web Server is probably one of the most popular ones.

Developed by the Apache Foundation, Apache is so popular that it runs 70% of all the webservers online.

Virage GNU/Linux is a new spanish distro speciallized and optimized for audio/video works

Virage GNU/Linux is 100% based on the stable branch of Devuan (A Debian fork without systemd) and uses the same repositories to mantain stability and coherence bring on Devuan.

Commell’s Linux-friendly “LP-178” Pico-ITX board features Intel’s Whiskey Lake-UE CPUs at up to 4.4GHz turbo and offers up to 16GB DDR4, triple displays, SATA III, 2x GbE, and 2x 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports. Commell announced the first Pico-ITX board we’ve seen based on Intel’s 8th Gen “Whiskey Lake” U- or 10-year available UE-series […]