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When installing packages using the Ubuntu Software Center or the command line utilities such as `apt` or `apt-get` the packages are downloaded from one or more apt software repositories. An APT repository is a network server or a local directory containing deb packages and metadata files that are readable by the APT tools.

Learn, how to check internet speed right from Linux terminal.

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS arrived earlier this month with updated kernel and graphics stacks, as well as all the latest package updates and enhanced Livepatch integration.

Malware and rootkit can wreak havoc to your server. Luckily, there are plenty of tools to scan your Linux server for malware and rootkit, and they are free.

ActPower Taiwan has gone to Kickstarter to launch three “Project-X-A1” Pico-ITX boards starting at $44 that run Linux on Allwinner H2+, H3, and H5 SoCs and support Raspberry Pi HATs and homegrown expansion modules.

After releasing RaspArch to run Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4, developer Arne Exton now released a new version of his Ubuntu/Debian-based RaspEX GNU/Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi 4.

In this guide, we will show you how to install Gogs on a CentOS 7 VPS with MariaDB as a backend database. Gogs is a free and open-source self-hosted Git service written in the Go programming language.

Ibase’s fanless “SI-323-N” signage player runs Ubuntu or Windows on an AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 with up to 32GB DDR4, 2x GbE, 2x M.2, mini-PCIe, and 3x 4K-ready HDMI 2.0 ports with audio and EDID. In April, when AMD unveiled a lower-powered version of the Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoC called the Ryzen Embedded R1000, the […]

In some ways, ZFS on Linux still falls short from the ZFS on Solaris. It is fully ingrained in the Solaris ecosystem, from the boot environment all the way to the graphical user experience. You could even manage your snapshots and more from GNOME. Adding root support for ZFS is a wonderful next step for the Ubuntu distribution. However, I am more intrigued to see what comes next in the integration of ZFS from within the Ubuntu operating environment.

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update. read more

What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A barrel of monkeys with a web management interface, of course.

Twitter Lite is a progressive web app that is designed actually for mobile users but can work on any device using web browsers. Today in this article, we will see how we can install and use Twitter on Ubuntu desktop.

Every file and directory on a Linux system is owned by someone, and the owner has complete control to change or delete the files they own. In addition to having an owning user, a file has an owning group. You can view the ownership of a file using the ls -l command: read more

This guide talks about three commandline tools to view image metadata on Linux.

The development team behind the Neptune Linux operating system have released a new major version that's based upon the latest Debian GNU/Linux release.

In this DevOps world, it sometimes appears the Dev half gets all the limelight, with Ops the forgotten half in the relationship. It's almost as if the leading Dev tells the trailing Ops what to do, with almost everything "Ops" being whatever Dev says it should be. Ops, therefore, gets left behind, punted to the back, relegated to the bench. I'd like to see more OpsDev happening. So let's look at a handful of things Ansible can help you do with your day-to-day Ops life.  read more

Hardkernel has released a media player bundle of its Odroid-N2 SBC loaded with CoreELEC, an Amlogic-optimized fork of LibreELEC. The CoreELEC Edition costs $65 (2GB RAM) or $75 (4GB) with case, PSU, and 8GB microSD card. Hardkernel has launched an Odroid-N2 CoreELEC Edition that combines the open-spec, community backed Odroid-N2 SBC with CoreELEC — a […]

VestaCP is a free, open-source and powerful website control panel that comes with website, email, database, and DNS functionalities. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and configure VestaCP on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer). read more

Install Mattermost on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx reverse proxy and secure it with Let's Encrypt SSL cerificate.