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In our second monthly Ansible Around The Web, we're sharing a smorgasbord of useful Ansible information for your delectation. Read on to find stories and videos relating to databases, security, VMware, Infoblox, and Windows! If you find an interesting Ansible story on your travels, please send us the link via Mark on Twitter, and the Ansible Community team will curate the best submissions. On with the show… read more

A few days ago, Blender officially released version 2.8. This version has a very different look from the old version. In my opinion, Blender 2.8 looks neater. This version brings a new Render option, Eevee. Several Blender users discuss and compare Eevee and Cycles Render. But many opinions say that the rendering process on Eevee is faster.

In Linux, a running instance of a program is called process. Occasionally, when working on a Linux machine you may need to find out what processes are currently running.

There are number of commands that you can use to find information about the running processes, with ps and top being the most commonly used ones.

Open source software has come a long way since the Open Source Initiative was founded in February 1998. Back then, the thought of releasing source code anyone could change scared many commercial software vendors. Now, according to Red Hat's 2019 State of Enterprise Open Source survey, 99% of IT leaders say open source software plays at least a "somewhat important" role in their enterprise IT strategy. read more

LinuxTechNews: This bash script keeps your services are up and running.

cli-visualizer is a command-line visualizer. Music visualization generates animated imagery based on a piece of music. The imagery is generated and rendered in real time and in a way synchronized with the music as it is played. Good music visualization seeks a high degree of visual correlation between a musical track’s spectral characteristics such as frequency and amplitude.

If you’re on your way to work, but you stop by a deli for breakfast first, you don’t go back home after breakfast so you can restart your journey. Instead, you continue from where you are because you understand where your office is located relative to your current location. Navigating your computer is the same way. If you change your working directory in a terminal to a subdirectory, such as Pictures, you don’t necessarily have to go home again just to make your way into Documents. Instead, you use a relative path. read more

Microsoft's sole way to defend itself from the person whom it unjustly sent to prison is to run away, even emptying entire buildings for a whole day (to avoid confronting the actual issues)

Git is the world’s most popular distributed version control system used by many open source and commercial projects. With Git you can collaborate on projects with your fellow developers, keep track of your code changes, revert to previous stages, create branches and more. It is originally developed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. This tutorial explains how to install and configure Git on Debian 10, Buster.

So, you've created a git branch but renamed it incorrectly? This article is for you! You've got good luck as Git allows to rename the Git Branch easily just by using the -m code. Let's learn how to do it?

The idea that internet privacy is important only if you have something to hide is a misconception, says Nathan Handler. Privacy is something we should all care about to protect ourselves and the people we communicate with, whether or not we're doing anything wrong or embarrassing, he says.

Created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, Git is by far the most commonly used distributed version control system in the world. This tool is mainly used by development teams to keep track of all the changes happening on a code base, as well as organizing code in individual branches. In today’s tutorial, we are going to see how to setup Git on a Debian 10 Buster machine.

A performance look at Rocket League and how it runs on Linux using three different methods.

Squid is a full-featured caching proxy supporting popular network protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It can be used for improving the web server's performance by caching repeated requests, filtering web traffic and accessing geo-restricted content. In this tutorial, we will explain how to set up a Squid Proxy on Debian Buster. We will also show you how to configure Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers to use it.

Open source images are images that are licensed under one of the open source licenses, such as Creative Commons and other licenses. In today’s article, we’ll introduce 5 image hosting platforms that can provide you with open source and royalty-free images.

Microsoft killed legislation that allows people to repair their own computers and gadgets (that they paid full price for), so why not also destroy the life of a prominent recycler who helps hardware repairs at a vast scale (reducing demand for new electronics with new Microsoft Windows licences)?

Struggling to keep your file downloads organized? If you don't already have a download manager installed on your Linux machine, here are four of the best.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we share Facebook's choice to open source two algorithms for finding harmful content, Apple's new role in the Data Transfer Project, and more news you should know.

Abandon Ship caught my eye some time ago, thanks to the incredible style inspired by classic Naval Oil Paintings. The developer said it would eventually come to Linux and that time is fast approaching with a Beta now up.

This Linux Basics guide teaches you everything important associated with UID in Linux.