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Fedora 30 is scheduled to be released on 30, July this year. The new Fedora 30 wallpapers have been made available to download. For each new release, wallpapers are selected by the community through voting. A total number of 56 wallpapers were submitted out of which 16 have been voted in by 128 contributors.

Canonical released today the sixth point release to the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system series to address the recently discovered security vulnerability in the APT package manager.

In C language, you can call a function in a couple of ways: call by value and call by pointer or address. Let's discuss both these concepts with some easy to understand examples.

News briefs for March 7, 2019.

For the past few years we've watched Microsoft's love toward open source by making many of its popular software open source. From Microsoft Edge to Powershell, it has been trying to prove its love for OSS community. And this time, the company has made its Calculator application open source.

In this article, we will describe how to test your microphone on Ubuntu. We will also explain how to make configurations to your microphone settings to ensure that it works in an optimal manner.

Bolt is a sophisticated, lightweight and simple CMS built with PHP. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bolt CMS installation on CentOS 7 system by using Nginx as a web server, MariaDB as a database server, and optionally you can secure transport layer by using acme.sh client and Let's Encrypt certificate authority to add SSL support.

Why you shouldn't use these terms interchangeably.

Sysadmins are among the heaviest users of terminal emulators, software programs that emulate a hardware terminal such as the VT100. But everyone who uses Linux regularly probably knows their way around a term application. Most terminal emulators are graphical programs that run on any Linux graphical desktop environment, like KDE, Cinnamon, LXDE, GNOME, and others, and can emulate several different types of hardware terminals. read more

Kirby is a Content Management System (CMS) that does not use a database. Kirby will adapt your projects and help you easily build your personal or professional website in only a few minutes.

Bonzer Arm update SoCs it to 'em Raspberry Pi fans rejoice! Support for another of the diminutive computers has been added to the next version of Linux Kernel, 5.1.…

2DayGeek: ClusterShell allow users to run the command on multiple cluster nodes and remote systems in parallel.

Gocryptfs is an encrypted overlay filesystem and encrypts files individually using chunked AES-GCM. Learn how you can encrypt your files with gocryptfs here

Recently, we published a poll that asked readers to vote on their favorite open source backup solution. We offered six solutions recommended by our moderator community—Cronopete, Deja Dup, Rclone, Rdiff-backup, Restic, and Rsync—and invited readers to share other options in the comments. And you came through, offering 13 other solutions (so far) that we either hadn't considered or hadn't even heard of. read more

In Ubuntu Linux, the root user account is disabled by default for security reasons.

Canonical released a new Linux kernel security patch for its long-term supported Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series to address several security vulnerabilities.

Just like your tablet, cellphone, and laptop, you need to keep your Raspberry Pi updated. Not only will the latest enhancements keep your Pi running smoothly, they will also keep you safer, especially if you are connected to a network. The seventh article in our guide to getting started with the Raspberry Pi shares two pieces of advice on keeping your Pi working well. Update Raspbian Updating your Raspbian installation is a two-step process: read more

When you create a regular Linux live USB, you can install software, download files, make changes to the system, and so on, but all of these changes are lost after a reboot. A persistent live USB allows saving any changes you make to the live system, so the they are still present the next time you boot to it.

A variable is something which can hold a value of a particular type - it could be an integer, character, or even floating point. However, there's one limitation of variables: they can only hold a single value at any given time. This tutorial shows the basics of using Arrays, which can hold multiple values.

The National Security Agency develops advanced hacking tools in-house for both offense and defensewhich you could probably guess even if some notable examples hadn't leaked in recent years. But on Tuesday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the agency demonstrated Ghidra, a refined internal tool that it has chosen to open source. And while NSA cybersecurity advisor Rob Joyce called the tool a "contribution to the nation's cybersecurity community" in announcing it at RSA, it will no doubt be used far beyond the United States.