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News briefs for March 5, 2019.

In this article, we will explain how to set timers, alarms, and stopwatches on your Ubuntu system in the GUI and on the command line.

SELinux or Security Enhaced Linux, is a set of kernel modification & user-space tools, that implements access policies called MAC (Mandatory access controls). It reduces privileges for any server or service to minimum required...

As countless schools, libraries, and families have proven, the Raspberry Pi is a great way to expose kids to programming. In the first four articles in this series, you've learned about purchasing, installing, and configuring a Raspberry Pi. In this fifth article, I'll share some helpful resources to get kids started programming with the Raspberry Pi. read more

OctoberCMS is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) and web platform based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application. In this tutorial, we will be going to explain how to install OctoberCMS on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Today we'll continue our web server setup series. In this series, we've already installed and setup our web server, configured & secured cPanel and point domain name to the server. At any time if you've trouble setting something up something, let me know in the comment section below. In this article, we'll go about hosting a website on our server. Let's do it.

In 2012, after experiencing performance and scaling limitations with the CI/CD solution we were using, my team at Yahoo started searching for another platform. We didn’t find a solution that met our rapidly growing developer needs, so we built Screwdriver. It is the product of our CI/CD journey at scale, lessons gathered along the way, and enormous amounts of feedback from our internal developers. After seeing the value Screwdriver added, we decided to open source it in 2016 to share our solution with the global DevOps community. read more

Elasticsearch is an open source distributed full-text search and analytics engine. It supports RESTful operations and allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data in real time.

The Wireshark Foundation released a new major version of their widely-used network protocol analyzer software, Wireshark 3.0, for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

2DayGeek: Use one of the following commands to generate a random and strong password from Linux terminal.

Newark Element14 and Avnet announced a Raspberry Pi based “SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway” with 2x Ethernet, WiFi/BT, CAN, serial, and optional Zigbee, Z-Wave, or LoRa. Avnet, which last year launched the Zynq UltraScale+ based ‘Ultra96 96Boards CE SBC, announced plans for the Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway at the CES show in early January. At […]

The GNU Linux-Libre project released today the GNU Linux-libre 5.0-gnu kernel for GNU/Linux users who are seeking 100% freedom for their personal computers.

NodeBB is a Node.js based forum software built for the modern web. It's built on either a MongoDB or Redis database. In this guide, we will guide you step-by-step through the NodeBBB installation process on the Debian 9 operating system using Nginx as the reverse proxy, MongoDB as the database, and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

gallery-dl is a command line program that downloads image galleries and collections from a wide range of image hosting websites, which works on Windows, macOS and Linux. The tool can mass download images from popular websites like Behance, DeviantArt, Flickr, Gyfcat, Imgur, Instagram, Photobucket, Pinterest, Reddit, Thumblr, Twitter or Weibo.

Kontron’s has launched two rugged KBox IoT gateways that run Yocto Linux on the Raspberry Pi CM3 (KBox A-330-RPI) and dual-core i.MX6 (KBox A-330-MX6). The systems offer 10-year availability and industrial I/O including CAN. Designed for cost-sensitive industrial control and gateway applications, Kontron’s new KBox A-330-RPI and KBox A-330-MX6 gateways feature compact, 111 x 76 […]

The ReactOS team released today a new semi-major version of their free and open-source computer operating system that's binary-compatible with apps and device drivers designed for Microsoft Windows.

News briefs for March 4, 2019.

If you've gone too far with the customization of your Gnome desktop, something broke, etc., and you want to reset the Gnome desktop settings, here is how to do this.

Project Jupyter is a set of open-source software projects that form the building blocks for interactive and exploratory computing that is reproducible and multi-language. The main application offered by Jupyter is the Jupyter Notebook, a web-based interactive computing platform that allows users to author documents that combine live code, equations, narrative text, interactive dashboard and other rich media.

While using a Ubuntu system if you encounter difficulty in reading the text on your screen, there are many ways you can fix it according to your vision requirements. In this article, we will describe three ways for you to change the screen text size in Ubuntu.