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Ansible Galaxy is a repository for Ansible Roles that are available to drop directly into your Playbooks to streamline your automation projects.

Ah, the humble to-do list. When used badly, it becomes a source of stress and a trigger for procrastination. When used well, the to-do list can help you focus on what you need to do, when you need to do it. There are a few ways to keep a to-do list. You can use pen and paper. You can run a command-line to-do list manager. Or, you can use a to-do list on your desktop. read more

Continuing my series, here’s a further graphical music player. Bearing the handle Musicalypse, it’s cross-platform software that offers both an audio player and server functionality.

The tac command is essentially the cat command, but its purpose is to concatenate files in reverse. Like cat, it has a convenient fallback mode to print to standard output (STDOUT) if no output file is provided, making it one of those commands that are more often used as a lazy pager—like less and more—than the function it is named for.

Stallman is not too happy about the way his visit to Microsoft may have been (mis)interpreted; the attacks on copyleft/GPL are meanwhile intensifying

In the first article in this series about GNOME Boxes, I explained how to get started with the virtualization application, and in the second article, I described GNOME Boxes' remote access capabilities. Here in the third installment, I will cover GNOME Boxes' snapshot functionality, which is a useful way to preserve data quickly.

Installing Arch Linux is as simple as creating two partitions and copying the OS files to the SD card.

On a Linux system, it is very common to run out of memory, because you run too many programs, or because you run programs that are consuming too much memory. As a consequence, if your RAM is full, you won’t be able to launch new programs on your computer. In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can add swap space on Debian 10, either by creating a swap file or by creating a disk partition dedicated to swap.

In this tutorial, we are taking a look at the Blackbox exporter for Prometheus. The Blackbox exporter is a tool that allows engineers to monitor HTTP, DNS, TCP and ICMP endpoints. Results can be visualized in modern dashboard tools such as Grafana.

The (mis)use of the term "Open Source" to promote monopolies has become so profound that even corporate media such as Forbes takes note of it (but obviously defends the practice)

Here is an eight-way benchmark comparison on the AMD EPYC 7742 2P Daytona server with its 128 cores / 256 threads.

The Openssh set of utilities let us create secure, encrypted connections between machines. In this tutorial we will take a look at some of the most useful options we can use to change the behavior of sshd, the Openssh daemon in order to make your Linux system administration job easier. In this article we assume the existence of an already running and accessible server. If you want to know more about OpenSSH installation, you can take a look at this article on how to install SSH server on Ubuntu Linux.

In a lot of discussions about which desktops are better on Linux, people seem to forget that Cinnamon exists, although it’s one of the best desktops out there that you may try. Here's why we think that in a long-detailed article.

The KDE Community has spoken! On the first day of Akademy 2019, Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V., announced the three new goals we will prioritize over the next 2 years. The goals were selected by community vote from a dozen proposals, all created by community members. Read on to learn more details about each of the new goals.

On Debian 10, users are able to change their password pretty easily.

It is also possible, if you have sudo rights, to change user passwords as well as to define rules for password change on the host.

In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can change the user password on Debian 10 through the command-line and the user interface if you are using a GNOME desktop.

Maybe you’ve been through an agile project that looked like this: Design, build, test, deploy, and then blame other internal teams when the agile project fails. Here’s how to do better

Slack is one of the most popular collaboration platforms in the world that brings all your communication together.

on DL137 - An interview with Emma Marshall of System76; Microsoft Brings exFAT to Linux; Pinebook Pro Available Now; Gamepad Support Comes To Linux In Steam Proton; Software Spotlight and Tips & Tricks.

In the previous article we touched upon some of the new features introduced to Cockpit over the years. This article will look into some of the tools within the UI to perform everyday storage management tasks. To access these functionalities, install the cockpit-storaged package: sudo dnf install cockpit-storaged From the main screen, click the Storage […]

An explanation of what Microsoft hopes to reduce Linux to; it’s not a new strategy as it goes back at least five years