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American computer manufacturer System76 announced today that it has launched two Linux laptops with the Coreboot open-source firmware pre-installed.

Global climate change affects us all. It is, at its heart, an energy issue—a problem too large and too complex for any single person, company, university, research institute, science laboratory, nuclear trade association, or government to address alone. It will require a truly global, cooperative effort, one aimed at continued innovation across a range of technologies: renewables, batteries, carbon capture, nuclear power development, and more. read more

Recovering deleted files isn't easy, but it isn't impossible. Foremost is designed to forensically search your drive to recover deleted files in Linux.

You probably copy and paste snippets of text on your computer multiple times a day without ever thinking about it. You may take it for granted, because it's older than Unix, with its earliest implementation through macros or manual repetition of line-editor commands. While the process has largely remained the same over the past 15 years, there's a side to copy and paste that many users never see: the clipboard manager. read more

CRON is a task scheduler (a daemon) which runs commands at predetermined times and intervals. You can choose the exact time at which the command will run by setting the minute, the hour, the day and the month. You can also define the periodicity, e.g. a command can be configured to run every ten minutes, every fourth hour, or at a particular time on Sunday night.

Git is a distributed version control system that’s being used by most software teams today.

2DayGeek: This tutorial shows you how to change user and group ownership in Linux.

You might not be aware that SSH is a magical tool with many different uses. Using it, you can copy files between systems without logging into them, as if by magic.

For a system administrator, monitoring the performance of Ubuntu or any other OS, is very important. Since many performance monitoring tools are available for Ubuntu, it is difficult to choose a good and reliable one. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the most common performance monitoring, network monitoring and server monitoring tools.

Personal Package Archives (PPAs) allow you to install software, but there are times when you need to remove it. Here's how to remove PPAs in Ubuntu distro.

Plus: New build brings Cortana resizing to all. Hurrah! Microsoft squeezed out a fresh build of Windows 10 last night, and finally released the much-anticipated Calls feature to eager Windows Insiders.…

Are Terraform and Ansible an unlikely pairing, two star-crossed lovers, or just the right technological marriage to simplify workflows for sysadmins, developers, and users? Find out here.

Richard M. Stallman resigned from leading the Free Software Foundation, but he appears to have kept his top role in the GNU Project. Some GNU programmers would like to see him leave.

This tutorial will teach you how to create persistent Live USB using Mkusb tool on Ubuntu and its variants like Linux mint.

The postfix mail server is an open-source MTA (mail transfer agent). Postfix routes e-mails to the desired mail server. It was originally released in 1998 and still active in 2019. It is also known as VMailer or IBM secure mail. If you don’t want to use mail servers like G-mail and want to convert your Ubuntu machine into a mail server then you are at the right place.

Novasom’s new M7+ version of its Pi-like, RK3328 based SBC-M7 board adds RS485, power over USB, an FPC connector for HDMI, and a library that lets Pi users recompile Raspbian apps for use with its industrial RASPMOOD stack. In February, Novasom Industries launched its Linux-powered, Rockchip RK3328 based SBC-M7 single board computer, which Novasom now […]

This small tutorial is going to teach you how to check which groups user account belongs to in Debian version 10 and how to add or remove users from groups.

In addition to Knative, which is for deploying serverless workloads, Google evidently plans to keep the Kubernetes service mesh, Istio, in-house.

Fork is easy to use open-source CMS built using the Symfony framework. In this tutorial, we will go through the Fork CMS installation and setup on the CentOS 8 system by using Nginx as a web server, MariaDB as the database engine, and optionally you can secure the transport layer by using Acme.sh client and Let's Encrypt certificate authority to add SSL support.

The UBports community announced today the availability for public testing of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 software update for all supported Ubuntu Phone devices.