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ProFTPD is a free, open source, and the most popular FTP server for Unix-like operating systems. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install ProFTPD and secure it with TLS on Ubuntu 18.04 server

There are times when you want to fetch the geographical location of a remote Ubuntu machine based on its IP address. This article will explain how you can do so by first obtaining a system’s public server IP and then using this IP to fetch the geographical location.

Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today that the Linux 5.0 kernel series reached end of life, urging users to upgrade to the most recent stable series.

You could never upsell a customer, without a variety of price points. And there is no price more enticing than free, unless it’s nearly the exact amount that a customer hoped to spend

Recently I was listening to some newly purchased music downloads on my System76 Gazelle laptop through my Schiit Fulla 2 DAC, thinking how wonderful the music sounded and how much I enjoy using my favorite open source music players. read more

News briefs for June 4, 2019.

UberWriter is a markdown text editor for GNOME. The app works with other desktop environments too since it is available only on flathub repository. All you have to do is install the app on your KDE, Cinnamon,… desktop while flatpak takes care of all the required dependencies to run UberWriter. Read on below to learn more about this awesome cool markdown text editor.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2019 issue.

The past few years have seen a hoard of new JavaScript frameworks taking over web development. Skills with Single Page Applications and Progressive Web Apps are the new things that every new developer wants on their resume. Most of the web services are migrating towards Client Side Rendering with JavaScript frameworks. However, Server-side rendering has not lost its charm. ?

When working on new Linux skills (or, as I was, studying for a Linux certification), it is helpful to have a few virtual machines (VMs) available on your laptop so you can do some learning on the go. read more

2DayGeek: Learn, whether the NTP setup is working or not in Linux using following three commands?

Netcat (or nc) is a command-line utility that reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP or UDP protocols. It is one of the most powerful tools in the network and system administrators arsenal and it as considered as a Swiss army knife of networking tools.

Downloading online software always come with a risk. Learn how you can verify the authenticity of Linux software by checking their digital signatures.

There are signs that something has changed inside the Linux Foundation, whose chief and main site have not said a thing since April 25th while advertising ‘Microsoft positions’ inside the Foundation

A community will always surprise you. That's not an easy statement for someone like me to digest. I'm not one for surprises. I revel in predictability. I thrive on consistency. read more

SolidRun’s “i.MX 8M Mini SOM” runs Linux on NXP’s up to quad-core, 1.8GHz -A53 i.MX8M Mini and works with the HummingBoard Pulse board. The module has 4GB RAM, optional WiFi/BT, and a 24 TOPS/W Gyrfalcon Lightspeeur 2803S NPU. SolidRun announced an i.MX8M Mini based compute module aimed at “a wide range of IoT and industrial […]

What you are reading right now is a Linux magazine—with a focus on Apple computers running macOS. (Or MacOS. Or however Apple is doing the capitalization nowadays.) I know, it's weird. It's extremely weird—like cats and dogs living together weird.

What the Halloween documents teach us about Microsoft’s mindset and strategy

With Microsoft cutting off support for Windows 7, the Linux desktop may finally get its day in the sun. But are Linux companies ready to take advantage of their opportunity?

Monitoring disk I/O on a Linux system is crucial for every system administrator. In this tutorial, we are going to build another dashboard that monitors the disk I/O usage on our Linux system, as well as filesystems and even inodes usage. not the only way to do it on a Linux system.