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This is the second article in a series about interprocess communication (IPC) in Linux. The first article focused on IPC through shared storage: shared files and shared memory segments. This article turns to pipes, which are channels that connect processes for communication. read more

ASRock has unveiled a fanless, Linux-ready “iBox-8265U” mini-PC with Intel’s latest Whiskey Lake CPUs, up to 32GB DDR4, a SATA bay, 2x GbE, 4x USB, triple displays, and extended temp support. ASRock Industrial Computer’s 171.8 x 150 x 71.5mm iBox-8265U is the first 8th Gen Whiskey Lake U-series based mini-PC we’ve seen. Several Whiskey Lake […]

Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins," and learn why hard links can be so advantageous.

Avalue’s Linux-friendly “EMX-KBLU2P” is a thin Mini-ITX board with 6th or 7th Gen Core CPUs, triple displays, 2x GbE, 2x SATA, 2x M.2, 4x USB 3.0, serial and GPIO interfaces, and -20 to 70°C support. Avalue announced a thin Mini-ITX board for signage, PoS, kiosk, AiO PCs, and industrial applications. Like the company’s EMX-SKLUP thin […]

In this article, we will explain the following things you can do about your installed RAM, through the Ubuntu command line: Check for Installed, Used and Available RAM, check the Type and Speed of your installed RAM and test your installed RAM for errors.

In the previous tutorial, we discussed multiple concepts related to pointers in C programming language. One of the concepts we discussed was an array of pointers.

Fedora IoT is an upcoming Fedora edition targeted at the Internet of Things. It was introduced last year on Fedora Magazine in the article How to turn on an LED with Fedora IoT. Since then, it has continued to improve together with Fedora Silverblue to provide an immutable base operating system aimed at container-focused workflows. […]

This is the first article in a series about interprocess communication (IPC) in Linux. The series uses code examples in C to clarify the following IPC mechanisms: read more

GNOME Files (or Nautilus) has a batch file rename feature (introduced in version 3.22) which allows finding and replacing text in multiple filenames, as well as adding automatic numbers, or renaming files based on metadata. Batch file renaming based on image and music metadata doesn't work by default in Ubuntu though, inserting only the metadata name instead of the actual metadata.

2DayGeek: Learn how to bring down and bring up the network interface port (NIC) in Linux.

Mercurial is a distributed version control system written in Python. Because it's written in a high-level language, you can write a Mercurial extension with a few Python functions. There are several ways to install Mercurial, which are explained in the official documentation. My favorite one is not there: using pip. This is the most amenable way to develop local extensions! read more

Opera is one of the most popular cross-platform web browsers in the world. It is fast, easy to use and secure browser built for the modern web.

QMPlay2 can play most video formats and audio formats. It plays all codecs supported by FFmpeg, and supports YouTube videos too. With internet radio, Audio CD, and a lot more besides, there’s lots of functionality on offer.

I'm no stranger to diagnosing hardware problems on Linux systems. Even though most of my professional work over the past few years has involved virtualization, I still enjoy crouching under desks and fumbling around with devices and memory modules. Well, except for the "crouching under desks" part. But none of that means that persistent and mysterious bugs aren't frustrating. read more

mycli is a command line tool for MySQL, MariaDB as well as Percona & supports the following features, – Auto-completion, & Case sensitive completion, as soon we start typing commands this will come into...

Learn about 5 interesting Linux tools that will help break your dependence on the GUI and keep you productive on the command line.

MICROSOFT WAS NOTIFIED BUT DECLINED TO PATCH. Page said he notified Microsoft about this new IE vulnerability on March 27, but the vendor declined to consider the bug for an urgent security fix in a message sent to the researcher...

In 2000 IBM said it would support Linux on the mainframe, and, by 2009, 70 of IBM’s top 100 mainframe customers were estimated to be running Linux.

2DayGeek: This tutorial helps you to disable the root user access and permit it via su user in Linux for security reason.

In this tutorial, we will be going over how to install and set up Dotclear on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04. Dotclear is a free and open-source web publishing application, designed to provide a user-friendly interface that allows anyone to publish their ideas on the web. Dotclear is written in PHP install Dotclear on Ubuntu 18.04 and includes many built-in features, such as handling blogs, using XHTML syntax for entries, adding pages, and so on. It also supports several database types, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dotclear on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.