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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Alex Gounares of Polyverse Linux about Cybersecurity for everyone.

What I need to do is be able to process Apache log files and isolate specific problems and glitches that are being encountered—a perfect use for a shell script. In fact, I have a script of this nature that offers basic analytics in my book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts from O'Reilly, but this is a bit more specific.

When writing Python scripts, you may want to perform a certain action only if a file or directory exists or not. For example, you may want to read or write data to a configuration file or to create the file only if it already doesn't exist.

When it comes to media streaming, there's no better player than Kodi. Here's how you can install Kodi on some of the most popular Linux distros.

On this episode of Destination Linux we sit down with Richard Brown, of openSUSE, for an interview about his journey into Linux and becoming the Chairman of openSUSE.

For this review, I’ll run through PyRadio. Unlike the other radio players I’ve covered, PyRadio is curses based software.

With old sysvinit and Upstart, users could force a disk check on next reboot using a simple command (sudo touch /forcefsck), but that's no longer the case nowadays, with most Linux distributions using systemd. This article explains how to force fsck to run at boot time in two ways, which work with systemd. You'll also find a command that shows when a partition was last checked by fsck, at the end of the article.

Having a cluster built out of Raspberry Pi's is not only fun but also eases your work. As we discussed in our latest article in the series you can use the cluster to compile software or make it gather data from various sources on the Internet. There are many uses for such a thing. However, after compiling for an hour straight you might get curious as of how your nodes perform. How they work under load, if they're not under-powered or if the CPU temperature is not rising above desired levels.

The BlackArch Linux ethical hacking and penetration testing operating system has received a new installation media today that brings lots of updated and new tools, as well as many other improvements.

Recently, Microsoft announced an update for the implementation of a whole Linux kernel to the OS. What does this mean, and how does it affect you?

There are plenty of fantasic music players on Linux. DeaDBeeF, however, stands out among the rest. Learn how to install and customize this Linux favorite.

GNU Datamash is a command-line data wrangler with a lot of useful capabilities. In this post I test-drive three Datamash operations, in two cases comparing them with other command-line tools.

In this article, we will explain how you can install and use the famous Sox command line utility in order to listen to mp3s in your Terminal.

News briefs for May 24, 2019.

Minikube is a free and open source tool that enables you to set up single node Kubernetes cluster inside your Linux system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install a Kubernetes single-node Cluster Minikube on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Rather than doing a step-by-step how-to guide to configuring your system to dual boot, I’ll highlight the important points. As an example, I will refer to my new laptop that I purchased a few months ago. I first installed Ubuntu Linux onto the entire hard drive, which destroyed the pre-installed Windows 10 installation. read more

UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced today that the Total War: Three Kingdoms turn-based strategy real-time tactics video game is now available for Linux and macOS platforms.

ArangoDB is a free and open source, NoSQL and multi-model database that provides all the database features that are needed for a modern web application. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install ArangoDB3 on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Updating Ubuntu OS is an easy process just requiring a few commands or a few clicks of a mouse. In this article, I will tell you how you can keep your Ubuntu OS up to date.

Atos’ suitcase-sized “BullSequana Edge” server runs Linux on a 6th Gen Xeon-D and supports AI edge processing via optional Nvidia T4 GPUs and FPGAs. Other specs include SATA, USB 3.0, GbE, and optional 10GbE, WiFi, 3G/4G, and LoRa. Establishing our scope of coverage on the low end is pretty easy — aside from the occasional […]