Showing all newswire headlines

MPD is a free and open music player server. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database. In order to interact with it, a client program is needed. ncmpc is billed as a fully featured MPD client with a tiny memory footprint.

File compression is a way to create archives that help us in saving time, creating space and downloading and transferring software and data faster. In this article, we will describe how you can compress single and multiple files and folders into the following formats: zip, tar.xc, and 7z.

You have your morning coffee in hand, you've just finished your daily scrum, and you sit down at your computer to start your day. Up pops a Slack message. You scan your emails, then bounce back to Slack. You look at your calendar to see when your next meeting is—much to your surprise, it's starting in 15 minutes. You get back to your desk and check your to-do list to see what tasks you can fit in before your next meeting, but one of your co-workers asks for your help to solve a problem. Before you know it, half of your day has disappeared. read more

OpenCart is a free and open-source shopping cart system. It is a PHP-based platform for creating online stores, delivering all standard e-commerce functionalities needed for managing an online shop.

2DayGeek: Two ways to create the bulk users in Linux.

Apache HTTP web server users are being urged to update their servers to patch for a critical vulnerability that could give an attacker a way to gain root access. Researcher Charles Fol discovered the vulnerability and writes about it in detail here: https://cfreal.github.io/carpe-diem-cve-2019-0211-apache-local-root.html. Apache

Git is one of those rare applications that has managed to encapsulate so much of modern computing into one program that it ends up serving as the computational engine for many other applications. While it's best-known for tracking source code changes in software development, it has many other uses that can make your life easier and more organized. In this series leading up to Git's 14th anniversary on April 7, we'll share seven little-known ways to use Git. Today, we'll look at ways writers can use Git to get work done. read more

If you want to automatically mount USB drives on a server running Debian or Ubuntu (including Raspbian or Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi) you can use a simple, but very effective tool called USBmount.

There are old laptops in each house that can no longer function fully. Using standard operating systems, for example, Windows or Linux becomes almost impossible. However, you can still use the old laptop effectively.

There has long been a stigma associated with using record-and-playback tools for testing rather than scripted QA automation tools like Selenium Webdriver, Cypress, and WebdriverIO. read more

Back when I started college, in the fall of 1988, I was introduced to a text editor called Emacs... The GNU folks talked about software with extreme intensity, as if the fate of the entire world rested on the success of their software replacing its commercial competition.

GNU Nano 4.0, WINE, Ubuntu 19.04 Beta, Ubuntu MATE 18.04 for Raspberry Pi, Puppy Linux 8.0, Flatpaks, Snaps, Epiphany, Mailnag, smenu, EU Copyright Directive, Humble Book Bundles, DiRT 4, Steam Play

News briefs for April 4, 2019.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) indexes an amazing array of libraries and applications covering every use case imaginable. However, when it comes to installing and using these packages, newcomers often find themselves running into issues with missing permissions, incompatible library dependencies, and installations that break in surprising ways. read more

Although I haven't been with Linux Journal since the beginning, I was there during the heyday, the stroke, the decline, the death and the resurrection. This article is about that story and what it says about how the FOSS community has changed.

Video: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gets work done on many platforms -- including, believe it or not, the Raspberry Pi.

The du command displays the amount of file space used by the specified files or directories.

In this short tutorial we take a look at the SECONDS built in shell variable. We discuss what it is, how to use it and formatting it to cleanly display the time a shell script took to execute.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform that helps manage container applications such as Docker. It can speed up server deployment and save you time and money

2DayGeek: Four ways to check user login history in Linux.