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

The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, a turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both single player and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

Looking to do something meaningful this summer? How about helping a few young people take their first steps in an IT career? Such an opportunity fell into my lap a few years ago, and I don't see why it can't be reproduced on a much larger scale. read more

Dell announced today three new Dell Precision mobile workstation Developer Edition models shipping with the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Apache HTTP server is the most popular web server in the world. It is a free, open-source and cross-platform HTTP server providing powerful features which can be extended by a wide variety of modules.

In the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers were cheap. In fact, programmers were so cheap they weren't even called "programmers" and were in fact usually mathematicians or electrical engineers. Early computers were used to solve complex mathematical problems quickly, so mathematicians were a natural fit for the job of "programming." read more

This comprehensive guide explains how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio, video transcoding and conversion operations with 20+ practical examples.

With an Android emulator, you can enjoy the smartphone experience without the smartphone. Here are some of the best Android emulators for Linux.

The Fedora 28 Linux operating system has officially reached end of life (EOL) status on May 28th, 2019, which means that it is time for users to upgrade to a more recent release.

Alan Davidson, Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security testified today on behalf of Mozilla before the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy. The International Grand

News briefs for May 29, 2019.

Nvidia’s “Nvidia EGX” solution for AI edge computing combines its Nvidia Edge Stack and Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift platform running on Linux-driven Jetson modules and Tesla boards. Adlink unveiled four edge servers based on EGX using the Nano, TX2, Xavier, and Tesla. Announced at this week’s Computex show in Taiwan, Nvidia EGX is billed as […]

The Krita Foundation has officially released today the Krita 4.2 open-source digital painting app for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows, a major release that adds numerous new features and improvements.

The kernel is the most important component of an operating system: among the other things, it provides support for different types of hardware and manages resource allocations. Linux is a monolithic kernel: although its functionalities can be included statically or built and loaded as separate modules, it always runs as a "single piece" in the same address space. In this tutorial we will see how to download, compile and install a vanilla Linux kernel.

I'd like to introduce one of the more popular tools used for visualizing data within several scientific disciplines: ParaView. ParaView started as a joint project between Kitware, Inc., and Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 2000. The first public release was version 0.6, which came out in 2002. Since then, ParaView has become one of the most popular visualization packages for visualizing large data sets.

With the recent release of Fedora 30, Fedora 28 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status effective May 28, 2019. This impacts any systems still on Fedora 28. If you’re not sure what that means to you, read more below. At this point, packages in the Fedora 28 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. […]

Phorum is a PHP and MySQL based Open Source forum software. In this guide, we will guide you step-by-step through the Phorum installation process on the CentOS 7 operating system using Nginx as the web server, MariaDB as the database, and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

GParted (GNOME Partition Editor), the popular open-source and free partition editor software, has reached the 1.0 milestone after being in development for nearly 15 years.

In this article, we will describe how to install Guake on your Ubuntu through the command line. We will also describe how to perform some basic functions on Guake through the keyboard.

This tutorial focuses on the installation and configuration of the powerful utilities sar and ksar on CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and shows how to automatically create PDF reports by using a simple shell script for easy daily monitoring of server resource usage.