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Summer. 1980-something. An elementary-school-attending, Knight Rider-T-Shirt-wearing version of myself slowly rolls out of bed and shuffles to the living room. There, nestled between an imposingly large potted plant and an over-stocked knick-knack shelf, rested a beautifully gray, metallic case powered by an Intel 80286 processor—with a glorious, 16-color EGA monitor resting atop.

2DayGeek: Is it mandatory to change default SSH port in Linux? If yes, check this article for more details.

Terminate and do what? Who Me Monday is here, and with it comes another tale of student hijinks in the computer room courtesy of our not-feeling-that-guilty Register readers in our weekly Who, Me? feature.…

Video: Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.

Bash (Bourne Again Shell), is one of the programs that are included in the most widely used GNU Project. One of the things I use from bash is Aliases. Creating an Aliases in bash is quite easy, and I use this to shorten the long commands on Ubuntu.

Video: Linux rules all the clouds now, including Microsoft's own Azure.

Learn how to use a case statement to selectively execute a commands based off of complex conditions. We explore the basic syntax of the case statement, the pattern termination operators, and using nocasematch shell option for case insensitive matching.

When working on the command line quite often you will need to create or edit text files. Two of the most powerful and popular used command line editors are Vim and Emacs. Both of them have a steep learning curve that can be intimidating to new users. For those who need a simple editor, there is nano.

Detailed explanation of modes by which Free/libre software comes under attack

Purism, the hardware manufacturer known for its secure Linux-powered laptops and the upcoming Librem 5 security-focused Linux smartphone, announced the upcoming release of the second version of its Librem Key security key.

UFW stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, and is a user-friendly frontend for managing iptables (netfilter) firewall rules. It is the default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu and is also available for other popular Linux distributions such as Debian and Arch Linux.

This guide will help you unleash the full potential of your system by showing you how exactly to install KDE in Arch Linux.

Are you a new user of a Linux-based operating system? If true, maybe you will be confused when choosing a distribution that is suitable for you to use and learn. And in my article this time I want to discuss 9 distributions that are suitable for beginners!

This tutorial teaches you to install R on Ubuntu. You’ll also learn how to run your first R program in Ubuntu using various methods.

Webmail is a great way to access your emails from different devices and when you are away from your home. Now, most web hosting companies include email with their server plans. And all of them offer the same three, webmail clients as well: RoundCube, Horde, and SquirrelMail.

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 Linux-powered operating system has reached end of life on June 30th, 2019, which means that it will no longer receive software and security updates. Released two years ago, on July 26th, 2017, the OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 operating system was the third maintenance update to the openSUSE Leap 42 series, which is also the last to be based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12 operating system series.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Wagtail on a Debian 9 VPS. Wagtail is a free, open-source, Python-based web application framework. On top of that, Wagtail is also a popular CMS that uses the Django framework.

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have a BIG announcement from Ubuntu to talk about that is bound to be polarizing. We’re also going to cover some other Distro News from OpenMandriva, Alpine Linux, openSUSE, EndeavourOS, and Regolith Linux. Then we’re going to check out some Hardware News from Pine64 for the Pinebook Pro and Slimbook’s new All in One PC. Later in the show we’ll take a look at some news from CERN, Netflix, Huawei, Mattermost, Wayfire (Wayland compositor), and more!

Seventeen years after Kylix, Embarcardero adds a complete Linux toolchain to Delphi. Hands On Texas software house Embarcadero Technologies has said it will license FmxLinux for Delphi, allowing developers to compile desktop applications for 64-bit Linux.…

Usually, to grant sudo access you add the user to the sudo group defined in the sudoers. On Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives, members of the group `sudo` are granted with sudo privileges while on RedHat based distributions like CentOS and Fedora, the name of the sudo group is `wheel`. This tutorial explains how to configure the sudoers file and allow certain users to run sudo commands without being asked for the password.