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Today we'll continue our MySQL series and learn how to create and modify tables. MySQL tables are the containers that actually hold data. A table with multiple columns and records can be seen as an excel sheet.

With LF Edge, the foundation wants to establish an open edge computing framework that's agnostic of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system.

High-level vulnerabilities in a pair of open-source tools reveals risks in package management infrastructure.

Learn How to Create Discord Bot on Arch Linux

News briefs for January 25, 2019.

From their website, "WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache."

Installing Wireguard is a straightforward procedure. Start by installing the Linux header files for your kernel using the following command..

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the 13th of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

In this article, we will give you a brief introduction about all the popular, yet simple, Ubuntu tools that you can use for cropping and resizing your images. We will also explain where you can easily find these tools for installation and how to use them for editing your images.

Are you looking for an easy way to write and publish technical documentation? Let me introduce Antora — an open source documentation site generator. Simple enough for a tiny project, but also complex enough to cover large documentation sites such as Fedora Docs. With sources stored in git, written in a simple yet powerful markup language […]

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a free and open source web analytics application developed by a team of international developers, that runs on a PHP/MySQL web server. This tutorial will show you how to install Matomo on a Debian 9 (stretch) system using Nginx as the web server and we will secure the website with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate

Learning about file permissions for the LFCS exam is important, but it is also very important to know in everyday use of Linux.

Keep in mind that all of the file permissions are used for every format except the FAT formats such as FAT32.

Python is a good beginner programming language. And games are a good beginner project: they are visual, self-motivating, and fun to show off to friends and family. However, the most common library to write games in Python, PyGame, can be frustrating for beginners because forgetting seemingly small details can easily lead to nothing rendering. read more

odio is a cross-platform, no-charge radio streaming software with more than 20,000 radio stations. Linux support arrived with version 1.1.0 a few months ago.

When you browse around old school computing forums, you will find the Linux vs. Windows debate raging in full force. People have been discussing this topic for years, arguing over which of the two systems is better for each kind of user, along which offers the best security. Unfortunately for most, Linux has long provided a better option for those who are more security conscious. How exactly does Linux manage to stay ahead of a company as large as Microsoft, though?

The shutdown command is used to bring the system down in a secure way. When the process is initialized, all the users are notified that the system is going down instantly or after some time.

Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) is the premier vendor-neutral technical conference where developers working on embedded Linux and industrial IoT products and deployments gather for education and collaboration, paving the way for innovation. Attend, and join 800+ technical experts paving the way for transformation in these key areas from across the globe for education, collaboration and deep dive learning opportunities.Event Title: Embedded Linux Conference North America24 JanLearn more

On Ubuntu, the system’s timezone is set during the install, but it can be easily changed at later time. This tutorial demonstrates how to set or change the timezone on Ubuntu 18.04 and previous versions from the command line, or through the GUI. The same instructions apply for any Ubuntu based distribution, including Kubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS.

The Debian Project and Canonical have released patched APT packages for all of their supported distributions to address a critical security vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install JDK on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and then set up the java home path.

Bash provides many important built-in commands, like ls, cd, and mv, as well as regular tools such as grep, awk, and sed. But, it is equally important to know the punctuation marks -- the glue in the shape of dots, commas, brackets. and quotes -- that allow you to transform and push data from one place to another. Take angle brackets (< >), for example.