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Besides the cloud, Canonical is staking its Linux future on the Internet of Things with its new Ubuntu Core release.

Ping is one of the most commonly used networking commands in Linux and other operating systems. Ping is mainly used to check if a remote host is reachable or not. The remote host could be a web server, your router or a system on your local network.Here are some of the most common usages of ping command in Linux along with their explanation.

Look, the platform is dead. Will you just move on already? Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to honour the memory of yet another Windows mobile technology. The rabidly unpopular Microsoft Wallet for the much beloved Windows Phone is for the chop.…

Since 2015, the Mozilla Foundation has incubated The Coral Project to support journalism and improve online dialog around the world through privacy-centered, open source software.

News briefs for January 22, 2019.

Parrot Security have released a new version of their ethical hacking and penetration testing GNU/Linux distribution that brings updated components and a major change for the project.

Vamrs has launched an under $299 “Toybrick RK3399Pro” SBC that runs Linux or Android on the AI-enhanced RK3399Pro. Vamrs also released a cheaper, $69 Model C version of its RK3399 based Rock960 SBC. Shenzhen based Vamrs has opened pre-orders for a Toybrick RK3399Pro (TB-RK3399Pro) development board, a collaborative project with Rockchip to showcase its AI-enabled […]

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 tenth of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

Webmin is a web-based opensource control panel for Linux systems. Webmin enables you to manage your server operations for system administration through the web-based interface.

Don't need full-fat GUI? WSL doesn't cut it? Canonical has just the ticket Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass.…

Almost every new technology developed in recent years has been complex, distributed, and built for scale: Kubernetes, Ceph, and OpenStack are a few examples. These systems are quite different from the ones we saw just a few years ago. Practically any non-trivial software solution today comes with loose coupling, asynchronicity, and elasticity—properties usually absent from systems of the past. read more

Ubuntu is testing a new Chromium snap package that enables VAAPI support, allowing the web browser to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding.

Learn a few techniques for avoiding the pipe and making your command-line commands more efficient.

If you're anything like many open source enthusiasts, you may have grown up watching science fiction shows like Knight Rider, or Star Trek, or (my personal favorite) Time Trax. What do they have in common? In each, voice is the key medium through which the protagonists interact with a computer. Knight Rider had Kitt, Star Trek had the ubiquitous computer, and even the indefatigable Darrian Lambert in Time Trax had dependable Selma, the holographic assistant. read more

Sometimes you need to pack multiple files and/or directories into a single file. These are some tar commands you can use to archive and compress your files.

It’s always a good idea to update your password on a regular basis and use a unique password for each account. As a regular user in Ubuntu you can only change your own password. The root user and users with sudo privileges can change another user’s passwords and define how the password can be used or changed.

2DayGeek: Dcp (Stands for Dat Copy) copies files between hosts on a network using the peer-to-peer Dat network.

Yarn is an advanced package management tool for Javascript applications mostly used for Node.js applications. Yarn is compatible with npm used for installing, configuring, updating and removing npm packages.

In Linux systems, you can create new directories either from the command line or with your desktop file manager. The command that allows you to create directories (also known as folders) is mkdir.

we will go deep into the functionalities and understand all the different features of Jenkins. Let’s get started. Developers make commits in the source code. Jenkins polls and detects code at every interval. If there are any commits, Jenkins will start the build using any of the build tools integrated into the code...