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Canonical released today a new Linux kernel security update, this time for users of the Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS operating system using the Linux 5.0 HWE (Hardware Enablement) kernel from Ubuntu 19.04.

ONLYOFFICE is an open-source solution that comprises online editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations combined with the groupware platform: mail, projects, CRM, calendar, chat. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to switch from MS Exchange and transfer users, mailboxes, and messages to ONLYOFFICE.

Chromecast is a device that allows to seamlessly cast content like audio, video on television over your home network. In this article, we will see how to cast video from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Chromecast.

Keeping your CentOS system up to date with the latest security updates is one of the most important parts of overall system security. If you don’t update your operating system’s packages with the latest security patches, your machine will be vulnerable to attacks. In this tutorial, we will show you how to manually update system packages on CentOS 7. The same instructions apply for CentOS 6.

DevOps is just another term for value stream development. What does value stream mean? Value is what arises during our interactions with customers and stakeholders. Once we get into value stream development, we quickly realize that value is not an entity. Value constantly changes. Value is a process. Value is a flow. Hence the term stream. Value is only value if it's a stream. And this streaming of value is what we call continuous integration (CI). read more

Linux is lightweight and fast by default, but it's always beneficial to further speed up a Linux PC. Here are some great ways to speed up your Linux machine

Debian 10 has been finally released on the 6th of July 2019, and it has come with a lot of very great features for system administrators

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install Debian 10 Buster with a GNOME desktop.

News briefs for August 1, 2019.

The Linux Foundation’s Microsoft infatuation is more visible in lesser-visible events; putting together all these pertinent observations and facts (some of which very recent), one wonders how long Zemlin and the likes of him can avoid impeachment (community uproar is brewing and will become unbearable at some point)

One of GitHub's superpowers is the ability to magically turn your documentation into a website. If you configure a GitHub Page for your docs/ folder on your AwesomeProject website, you'll end up with yourname.github.io/awesomeproject, showing your documentation, all for free. read more

A comparison of the most used Debian based Linux Distros

Automad is an open-source file-based content management system (CMS) and a template engine written in PHP. All content is stored in human-readable text files instead of a database.

Understanding Linux permissions and how to control which users have access to files is a fundamental skill for systems administration. This article will cover standard Linux file systems permissions, dig further into special permissions, and wrap up with an explanation of default permissions using umask. read more

ACO is a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD hardware, announced by Valve earlier this month. It's aimed as a replacement for LLVM and its main two goals are best-possible code generation for game shaders, and fastest-possible compilation speed.

One of the hottest topics within the DevOps space is Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). This attention has drawn lots of investment dollars, and a vast array of proprietary Software As A Service (SaaS) tools have been created in the CI/CD space, which traditionally has been dominated by free open-source software (FOSS) tools. Is FOSS still the right choice with the low cost of many of these SaaS options?

Install and setup Grafana on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx and add remote MySQL database as data source in Grafana to visualize the data

As a follow-up to 2011's Waves, Waves 2: Notorious has arrived on Linux as part of the 0.73 Early Access update on Steam.

Hyperledger Explorer is a powerful utility that allows users to create user-friendly web-based applications. It is a blockchain dashboard and provides the ability to view, invoke, deploy, and query raw blockchain data and network information, including block details, chain codes, and transactions stored in the ledger.

In the last 3 years I was searching for an easy to use app or a useful tool to display and control my Android smartphone. Unfortunately, I spent a lot of time searching unsuccessfully - I think the problem was with my research method - until I found last week what I was looking for that made me forget my past suffering. If you are interesting in displaying and controlling your Android device on Linux , you are on the right place as I will share with you in this tutorial my humble experience with the discovered application.

Sometimes the system becomes corrupted after installing an application or driver. Whatever the cause, you will definitely want to get back to the state where your system worked perfectly. Restoring the system to its previous state can help you restore the system to a normal state. In this article we will see how to restore Ubuntu OS to its previous state using the System Back Utility. We will see both GUI and CLI versions.