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Nexcom’s networking-focused, rackmount “NSA 6310” edge computer runs Ubuntu on an 8- to 16- Cortex-A72 LX2160A with SATA 4x GbE, 2x SerDes slots for up to 25GbE, and PCIe, mini-PCIe, and M.2 expansion. Nexcom announced an edge computer and uCPE networking white box appliance that runs Ubuntu Linux on NXP’s Cortex-A72 based Layerscape LX2160A SoC. […]

Ubiquity and Democracy are the two words that best describe the open source PostgreSQL (Postgres) database management system. And, much like Linux, both are great examples of “open source at its best”.

Memcached is a general-purpose memory-caching system. This means it is designed to save (or cache) answers to questions that take a long time to compute or retrieve and are likely to be asked again. A common use case is to accelerate the use of a database: for example, if we expect to need the list of "names of all people who are on team X" repeatedly, we might put this data in Memcached rather than run a SQL query each time. (Note: Memcached is occasionally referred to as "memcache." We will stick to the full name throughout this article.) read more

The team behind the open-source and cross-platform Audacious audio player application have released a new major version, Audacious 4.0, which brings numerous new features and improvements.

Garz & Fricke’s “Tanaro” SBC runs Linux or Android on an i.MX8M Mini with 2x Ethernet, mini-PCIe, LVDS with optional touchscreens, and isolated CAN and serial ports. Garz & Fricke announced a “coming up” Tanaro (or Tanaro Core) SBC that features NXP’s quad -A53, 1.8GHz i.MX8M Mini Quad, the faster, but HD-only cousin to the […]

Many people are becoming involved with open source software development by contributing to projects on GitHub. Many of them use GitHub's graphical user interface (GUI), especially those who are new to the command-line interface (CLI). But what if you prefer working on the command line? read more

Magento is one of the most popular open-source e-commerce platforms that allows you to set up e-commerce websites and online stores in minutes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Magento on CentOS 8 with Let's Encrypt free SSL.

ParrotSec team released Parrot 4.8, a new major version of their Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for ethical hacking, security research, and penetration testing.

LMDE or Linux Mint Debian Edition is Launched. The reason for the development of LMDE is very simple and logical. And the Reason is if ever Ubuntu Shuts down then what happens to Linux Mint??

The /proc filesystem contains many files of varying importance. Get acquainted with the ones you need to know.

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 […]