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The fourth annual Open Source Yearbook looks back at 20 years of open source and rounds up hot new technologies and trends. Get your free PDF download of the 2018 Open Source Yearbook.

Do you know how to check overall CPU, Memory and Swap percentage in Linux? If no, check the article for more details.

The MSC SM2S-IMX8 is a Linux-supported SMARC module with a hexa-core i.MX8 SoC, up to 8GB LPDDR4 and 64GB eMMC, optional WiFi/BT, a dual GbE controller, plus 4K video, SATA III, PCIe, and optional -40 to 85°C. Avnet-owned MSC Technologies offers a variety of SMARC modules including the Intel Apollo Lake based SM2F-AL, the i.MX6 […]

The OpenMandriva project finally kicked of 2019 with the beta release of their upcoming and long-anticipated OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 operating system.

In a previous article we have seen how to build a “To Do” application using the Django REST Framework. In this article we will look on how we can use Minishift to deploy this application on a local Openshift cluster. Prerequisites This article is the second part of a series, you should make sure that […]

The ping command is one of the most used utilities for troubleshooting, testing and diagnosing network connectivity issues. Ping works by sending one or more ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Echo Request packages to a specified destination IP on the network and waits for a reply. When the destination receives the package, it will respond back with an ICMP echo reply.

SFTP makes it easier to transfer files securely to a remote server. Filezilla and WinSCP also come with support for SFTP. Learn how you can use SFTP to transfer files.

KDE Plasma 5.15 has been released on the 12th of February and I am looking at 6 of its features that stood out for me. In the video, I used KDE Neon 5.15 which has already been updated to the latest of Plasma Goodness and I also attached links to the official release notes and change log. Enjoy!

2DayGeek: Did you ever tried the fish shell? It's worth to give a try.

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at QJournalctl, a Qt-based Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl command.

Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment. This February release of KDE Plasma comes with a wide range of new features and improvements.

Nautilus Columns is a Nautilus file manager Python extension that adds metadata tags in the Nautilus list view, for audio (mp3, flac and wav), image and PDF files.

Bolt is a sophisticated, lightweight and simple CMS. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bolt CMS installation on Fedora 29 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.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.15, a major new series that introduces numerous new features and improvements to the popular GNU/Linux graphical desktop environment.

With the way I talk and write about PDFs and tools for working with them, some people think I'm in love with the format. I'm not, for a variety of reasons I won't go into here. I won't go so far as saying PDFs are a necessary evil in my personal and professional life—rather they're a necessary not-so-good. Often I have to use PDFs, even though there are better alternatives for delivering documents. read more

In our quest to examine all the clutter ([he], |, [/he], >, <, {, [, (, ), ], }, etc.) that is peppered throughout most chained Bash commands, we have been taking a closer look at the ampersand symbol (&).

An overview of tools and techniques to allow you to get the public facing IP address of your system from the Linux command line.

F[he]S unveiled a 40 x 35mm “PicoCore MX8MM” module that runs Linux on an up to quad-A53, 1.8GHz i.MX8 Mini with up to 8GB LPDDR4 and 32GB eMMC plus WiFi/BT, a GbE controller, PCIe, and optional -40 to 85°C support. F&S Elektronik Systeme pre-announced a tiny PicoCore MX8MM compute module featuring NXP’s new i.MX8 Mini […[/he]]

Notification of the Xen summit.

A popular note on the Linux Kernel Mailing List claims that a program's author can block people from using his code at his discretion. Wrong.