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MySQL, the world’s most popular open source relational database management system is not available in the default Debian’s repositories. MariaDB is the default database system in Debian 10. This tutorial, explains how to install and secure MySQL on Debian 10 from the MySQL Apt Repository.

You might have encountered a few advertisements the past year trying to sell you a password manager. Some examples are LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane. A password manager removes the burden of remembering the passwords for all your websites. No longer do you need to re-use passwords or use easy-to-remember passwords. Instead, you only need to […]

Steven Rostedt wanted to do a little housekeeping, specifically with the function tracing code used in debugging the kernel. Up until then, the kernel could enable function tracing using either GCC's -pg flag or a combination of -pg and -mfentry. In each case, GCC would create a special routine that would execute at the start of each function, so the kernel could track calls to all functions. ............

Nowhere Prophet, a deck-builder with a difference where your cards truly matter has been officially released with Linux support this week so I took a look.

The Mageia project has released an emergency update to the latest Mageia 7 Linux operating system to address installation issues reported by users with computers powered by AMD Ryzen 3000-series CPUs.

The upgrade from Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian 10 Buster is a relatively simple procedure. However, exercise caution, as there is always a chance to break the entire system. The fewer installed 3rd-party packages and services, the more likely you are able successfully to upgrade your Raspbian Linux system.

Sysadmins are the heartbeat of many open source projects around the world. What would we do without them?  So, once a year—or more if you're working on a team with a great outlook on life and positive culture—we take time out of our busy lives to say thank you. "Thanks for all the stress, overtime, and dedication to the mission(s), me!" —Jim Salter read more

Daedalic Entertainment and Caligari Games recently announced that their time-travelling adventure and puzzle game The Great Perhaps is coming to Linux.

McFly is a small utility a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.

Canonical announced that the BT Group communications company has chosen to use the Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu and related open-source tools to automate the deployment and operations of their next-generation 5G cloud core network.

In a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Red Hat CTO Wright dishes on open-source and the future of Red Hat products and technologies with IBM.

One of the most common operations when working on Linux is to search for files and directories. On Linux systems, there are several commands which allow you to search for files with find and locate being the most used ones. The locate command is the quickest and simplest way to search for files and directories by their names. In this tutorial, we will explain how to use the locate command.

The CTO of DevOps platform vendor CircleCI shares insights on how the market has changed as his company raises new funds to power ahead.

Murphy's Law says that after you carefully number all the items in a long list, you'll notice that you need to insert a new item in the middle. This post describes a function for inserting and renumbering.

The person whom Microsoft sent to prison for doing the moral thing has had an informal chat with Techrights, which plans to explore and study the case more closely

The team behind the retro-inspired and Linux-powered gaming box, the Atari VCS, have put out an "Early Summer Update" of what's going on with the project.

There are basically three types of people in the world: those who know little or nothing about bash job control, those who know enough to believe that it's nothing that they would ever use, and those who can just skim the rest of this post.

Dash to Panel, an icon taskbar for Gnome Shell, was updated to version 20, bringing a window preview overhaul and other improvements.

It's easy to imagine that regulators should love free and open source software. After all, anyone can adopt it, change it, and distribute it. But that's not the only way to assess its impact on innovation.

When using Docker it is sometimes necessary to update files quite often. Updating those files can be a big hassle since the whole container must be recreated each time.