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Apache Bench is a useful little tool for testing the response time of a webservice, and thus the performance of the webserver. We can specify the number of requests to send, the target URL, set up concurrency, just to name a few of this tool's settings.

It's been 10 years I use an old laptop with these old school specifications in my computer activities. Right now, it looks like my laptop is having a problem. I heard a long beep 1 and short beep 2 times. When looking for information about beeps on a laptop, it turns out there is a problem with the monitor or VGA card.

Want to help lock down Kubernetes and make some money while you're at it? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has a new bug bounty program for you.

In this article, we will explain how to install apt-fast in order to accelerate the update and downloading process. We have run the commands and procedure mentioned in this article on a Debian10 system.

Oversteer is quite possibly one of my favourite open source applications, as it's made working with my own Logitech G29 a really great experience.

Cheat sheets are popular with people learning Linux. Learn how the cheat utility allows you to view and edit cheat sheets right from the place you need them most, the command line.

Elasticsearch is an open-source distributed full-text search and analytics engine. It supports RESTful operations and allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data in real-time. Elasticsearch is one of the most popular search engines powering applications that have complex search requirements such as big e-commerce stores and analytic applications. This tutorial covers the installation of Elasticsearch on CentOS 8.

The final steps are being made in the Google v. Oracle copyright case, which will put the fate of programming in the hands of the Supreme Court.

For Valentine’s Day, Solus users are getting a bunch of goodies as the development team released today several updates to some important core components and apps.

Flarum is a free, open-source and next-generation forum software that makes it easier for you to start and grow a successful online community. It is simple, lightweight, fast and mobile-friendly software based on PHP.

Here is a list some useful console services for Linux users. All of the console services are accessible from command line via http, https and other network protocols like ssh and telnet.

The KDE-empowered version of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, now has a high-powered laptop to call its own: The Kubuntu Focus.

Lua is a minimalistic, lightweight language implemented as a C library. It's fast and simple to learn, efficient to run, embeddable, and tiny (its source code download is under 500 KB, and it's just over 1MB compiled). You can use Lua to create an API for your application or as a scripting language, for quick prototyping, or as the foundation of your software project. read more

Should they be allowed to grab our stuff just cos it's 'popular' and it works? Not to be outdone by Google in ominous warnings over the future of software, Oracle has declared to American Supreme Court justices that no company would make an "enormous investment" like it did in Java SE if rivals get a free pass to copy code simply because it is "popular" and "functional".…

Opinion: It was incompetence, not politics, that led to the Iowa caucus app misfiring. Above all, it was poor programming. Open-source software techniques could have prevented this blunder.

If you ask most developers when they prefer to work, many will say their most productive hours are at night. This may be especially true for open source contributors who are contributing to projects outside of their day job (though hopefully within healthy limits to avoid burnout). Some like to start in the evening and work till the early hours while others get up super early—say, 4 a.m.—to get most of the programming work done before the daily grind kicks in. read more

In this article, we will explain how to recover lost files on Debian by using the TestDisk utility. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system.

The next-generation of Dell's high-end Linux laptops will come with up to 32GB of RAM.

Take your Bash scripting to a new higher level using libraries with automation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is rotting away as an advocate against software patents; Patents on algorithms are still being granted (even when courts repeatedly reject these) and Red Hat’s Chief Patent Counsel remains Manny Schecter, one of the loudest proponents of such patents (citing the likes of Adam Mossoff this week, in effect Koch operatives); this is a very big problem because Free software projects come under a barrage of lawsuits, using patents like those IBM lobbies ferociously to legitimise