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This tutorial tells you how to prevent accidental shutdown or restart of your Linux system using any of these five commands.

I would be willing to contribute to a project that creates a second tier, or "Four More Freedoms" but I have to ask: what freedoms do we need that we don't have?

The GNU Linux-libre community announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 5.4 kernel for those seeking 100% freedom for their personal computers.

There are two main grepping utility-families: grep and ack. The former is for the plain searching and is ubiquitous. The latter offers smart searching, meaning it knows what files should be filtered out. ripgrep is a hybrid solution that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released over the weekend a new version of his Debian-based DebEX GNU/Linux distribution, which adds the latest Linux kernel, Budgie and Enlightenment desktops.

Using rootless Podman with NFS requires a bit of extra work, but it can be done!

In this tutorial I will explain how to set up a local Gitlab Server for CI (Continuous Integration) / CD (Continuous Deployment). Since the scope of DevOps is quite large, this tutorial focuses on setting up the Gitlab server under local conditions. We will use the Gitlab Community Edition to set up in our local environment.

The State of Mozilla annual report for 2018 is now available here. This report details how Mozilla operates and includes details from our financial reports for 2018.

UBports, the makers of the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system published a weekly update on their development progress to bring Ubuntu Touch to more devices.

MariaDB is the latest open source and popular relational database management system, compatible and replacement of MySQL.

This article explains two ways to enable https protocol. First is by enabling at the web server side and second by using a cloud service such as Cloudflare. Read the article to know more about it.

Awk scripts have three main sections: the optional BEGIN and END functions and the functions you write that are executed on each record. In a way, the main body of an awk script is a loop, because the commands in the functions run for each record. However, sometimes you want to run commands on a record more than once, and for that to happen, you must write a loop. There are several kinds of loops, each serving a unique purpose. read more

5 Proven Ways To Comment Out Multiple Lines At Once In Vim Editor.

Olimex has asked for public comment on preliminary specs for an Allwinner S3-based “S3-OLinuXino” IP camera board with PoE support, onboard WiFi, and dual MIPI-CSI interfaces, one of which supports Raspberry Pi cams. Olimex has published basic specs and a request for public comment on WordPress — and has posted schematics on GitHub — for […]

Google announced over the weekend the general availability of Mendel Linux 4.0 "Day," the company's in-house built, Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for its Coral Dev Board and System-on-Module (SoM).

Install Node.js on popular Linux operating systems including Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora etc.

Telnet is old school, but it's still a handy tool for troubleshooting email and other services.

It's well-known that women are under-represented in computer science and technology. A new initiative led by the NC Department of Public Instruction, Duke University, and IBM is working to reverse that trend by using an open source approach to bringing more computer science instruction into NC public schools. read more

On Linux and UNIX operating systems, a Windows share can be mounted on a particular mount point in the local directory tree using the `cifs` option of the mount command.

Synaptic is the first software that comes to mind when talking about a graphical package manager on Linux. Today, it is 18 years old!