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VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) falls under - Network and Content Delivery - service in AWS (Amazon Web Services). VPC provides us logically a virtual private, isolated cloud. In this article, we will see how to create a VPC using the Wizard as this is the simplest way to start with.

I've written before about what a community manager does, and if you ask ten community managers, you'll get 12 different answers. Mostly, though, you do what the community needs for you to do at any given moment. And a lot of it can be repetitive. Back when I was a sysadmin, I had a rule: if I had to do something three times, I'd try to automate it. And, of course, these days, with awesome tools like Ansible, there's a whole science to that. read more

We would start via installs proposed for Ubuntu Focal Fossa and create file /etc/network/interfaces exactly as recommended in official Debian Buster manual to be able launch guests available over all office LAN.

The Linux Mint project announced the release and general availability of the Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 operating system, a major series that brings lots of new features and enhancements.

Meld is one of my essential tools for working with code and data files. It's a graphical diff tool, so if you've ever used the diff command and struggled to make sense of the output, Meld is here to help. Here is a brilliant description from the project's website: read more

In this tutorial, we learn how to install python 3.7 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux machine. Shows python installation using apt ( adding PPA) and from source.

‘The world around us may be going through strange times, but so far kernel development looks normal’ says Penguin emperor. Linus Torvalds has released a new release candidate of the Linux kernel – version 5.6 rc7 - and added a little COVID-19 commentary.…

The Raspberry Pi makes for a useful and inexpensive home server for lots of things. I most often use the Raspberry Pi as a print server to share a laser printer with other devices in our home or as a personal file server to store copies of projects and other data.

It has often been said that information confers power, and that the most important currency in our culture today is information. Keeping track of bits and pieces of information is a minefield. There is a wide range of competent note taking software for Linux, and this article seeks to cover the finest open source solutions.

Cockpit is a very useful utility allowing you to manage a compatible system over the network from the comfort of a web browser (See the list of supported web browsers and Linux distributions). One such feature is the ability to manage storage configuration. Cockpit contains a frontend for udisks2 – it allows you to create […]

Recently, we published an article about why developers prefer to code at night. Author Matt Shealy highlighted the many benefits of nocturnal programming including the quiet time and space for creative thinking.

Using the correct timezone is essential for many systems related tasks and processes. For example, the cron daemon uses the system’s timezone for executing cron jobs, and the timestamps in the log files are based on the same system’s timezone. On CentOS, the system’s timezone is set during the install, but it can be easily changed at a later time. This article describes how to set or change the timezone on CentOS 8 systems.

Youtube, Facebook, twitter and most web hosting providers are using MySQL. As an open source freely available (RDBMS) Relational Database Management System, MySQL is an essential component of almost every open PHP application. Joomla, Magento, WordPress and Drupal are are all relying on the reliability and robustness of MySQL to handle and process large numbers of complex SQL statements. Your website is most likely managed in the background by MySQL.

Sometimes a Python package or script is not available in PyPI. In such cases, you can install those Python package directly from GitHub on Linux as described here.

To help you spend your time during the quarantine, we’ve prepared a list of 7 unusual Linux distributions that you can have fun with. We’e also added URLs to online in-browser testing pages so that you can try them before you actually download them to your PC. Enjoy!

Community building is table stakes in the success of any open source project. Even outside of open source, community is considered a competitive advantage for businesses in many industries—from retail, to gaming, to fitness. (For a deeper dive, see "When community becomes your competitive advantage" in the Harvard Business Review.)

CyberPanel is an open-source web hosting control panel that uses OpenLiteSpeed as a web server. CyberPanel is a next-generation web hosting platform specially designed for speed, security, and stability. CyberPanel is completely free and supports an unlimited number of domains/subdomains. In this tutorial, we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install as well as configure the CyberPanel control panel on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

Everyone knows they shouldn't take shortcuts, especially in their work, and yet everyone does. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but when it comes to code development, though, it definitely does. As any experienced programmer knows, building your code the quick and dirty way soon leads to problems down the line. These issues might not be disastrous, but they incur a small penalty every time you want to develop your code further.

With ventilators in dangerously short supply during the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of DIY groups have begun working on open source designs that could be made at home.

Examining files from the command-line is generally an easy thing to do. You just run the command you want, followed by a list of files to be examined. Dealing with binary files, however, is more complicated. These files are often packaged up into archives, tarballs, or other packaging formats. The run-on-binaries script provides a convenient way to run a command on a collection of files, regardless of how they are packaged. The invocation of the script is quite simple: read more