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Shopware is the next generation of open source e-commerce software. This tutorial will walk you through the Shopware Community Edition (CE) installation on CentOS 7 system by using NGINX as a web server.

Prior to 2006, I had used only Windows. Around that time, there was a lot of anxiety about its upcoming successor to Windows XP, which at the time was code-named Project Longhorn. My colleagues and I all were dreading it. So, rather than go through all that trouble, I switched to Linux.

Before we get into the latest scary-virtual private network (VPN) news, lets do as Naked Security's Paul Ducklin advises and repeat after him:

Sometimes when debugging an issue or updating the kernel you may need to reboot your Linux system. If you have a headless server you need to know how to restart the system from the command line.

This tutorial explains how to lock the keyboard and mouse, but not the screen in Linux using “xtrlock” utility.

I've been using and teaching Python for a long time now, but I'm always interested in increasing my knowledge about this practical and useful programming language. That's why I've been trying to expand my Python personal learning network (PLN), a concept that describes informal and mutually beneficial networks for sharing information. read more

News briefs for May 31, 2019.

We need to resume coverage of Microsoft abuses and attacks on GNU/Linux; their thinly-veiled attacks are intensifying while media that Microsoft is paying relentlessly cheers and ‘perfumes’ these attacks

Fully developed HiddenWasp gives attackers full control of infected machines.

A Data Cleaner's Cookbook has a couple of pages on "broken" records and recommends a function that checks for "brokenness". This post describes a short script that does the same job more informatively.

Awk is a versatile programming language designed for pattern scanning and processing language and often used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It’s an excellent filter and report writer.

KUnit has been seeing a lot of use and development recently. It's the kernel's new unit test system, introduced late last year by Brendan Higgins. Its goal is to enable maintainers and other developers to test discrete portions of kernel code in a reliable and reproducible way. This is distinct from various forms of testing that rely on the behavior of the system as a whole and, thus, do not necessarily always produce identical results.

Intel previewed a “NUC Compute Element” with Y- or U-series Core chips, RAM, and storage that can be embedded in laptops and other devices via a proprietary connector. It also showed off several new technologies including a Honeycomb Glacier laptop with a secondary screen on the keyboard. Intel, which went to the Computex show in […]

News briefs for May 30, 2019.

The addition of Huawei to the US "Entity List" has created a flurry of confusion and concern among open source and open standards organizations wondering whether they need to kick the Chinese company out. The answer to that question will likely vary, depending on the transparency of the process of the specific organization.

When we think about gates, we think about having something to protect. Gates are most often used to provide a physical boundary for the sake of security. They are made of metal, or wood, or plastic, and even sometimes they are made of software. They save us from uninvited risks of damaging something important to us. read more

Imago’s “VisionBox Daytona” machine vision computer runs Linux on a Jetson TX2 and offers 4G LTE plus dual GbE camera ports with PoE and triggers. Other recent, Linux-based Imago systems include an octa-core VisionBox Le Mans and an EdgeBox cloud server. Imago Technologies has released a variety of Linux-ready VisionBox machine vision systems in recent […]

BoltWire CMS is an open-source content management system that runs on PHP – it’s easy-to-install, and comes with many features.

In the first three articles in this series, we explored the general requirements of a Source-to-Image (S2I) system and prepared and tested an environment specifically for a Go (Golang) application. read more

2DayGeek: Learn, how to view installed security updates on RHEL and CentOS system.