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This beginner’s tutorial explains various ways to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions.

We have covered a total of 5 C programming tutorials so far. Each tutorial focused on something specific. In process of remaining close to the topic, some generic concepts remained untouched. Some of those concepts we'll be discussing here in this tutorial.

Would it surprise you to learn that most of the world's scholarly research is not owned by the people who funded it or who created it? Rather it's owned by private corporations and locked up in proprietary systems, leading to problems around sharing, reuse, and reproducibility. read more

Here's our take on 15 Qt-based file managers examining their features, usability, searching, extensibility, and protocol support.

News briefs for January 25, 2019.

Canonical is preparing to release new, emergency point releases of its long-term supported Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system series due to the recently discovered APT security vulnerability.

Many great tools have come and gone over the years. But none of them have made an impact as large as the one that Ansible has made in the IT automation space. From servers to networks to public cloud providers to serverless to Kubernetes… Ansible has a lot of use cases. "The Ansible Automation for Sysadmins Guide" was created to help celebrate Ansible's 7th birthday this year! read more

In this article we explore using the kernel's random number generator and the systems entropy pool to generate random passwords on the command line. We list 5 different methods and include one utility that we found useful.

LinuxSecurity debunks some common myths and misconceptions regarding open source and Linux by answering a few Linux-related frequently asked questions.

How to Install cPanel v76 on Google Cloud with CentOS 7 and set up Email and Security using Web Host Manager (WHM).

CentOS, as well as all other Linux distributions, is a multi-user operating system. Each user can have different permission level and specific settings for various command line and GUI application. Knowing how to add and remove users is one of the most essential skills each Linux user should know.

DNS ( Domain Name System ) is the backbone of the internet and without dns, almost all the services will not work. If you are a system admin you should face the situation to troubleshoot dns issues in your daily work. There are different tools available nowadays and here I am discussing some of the common tools.

Today we will see how to install Dropbox to be able to use it without any type of problem in dual boot systems. There are many users who have a dual boot with windows and one of the many existing Linux distros. To be able to access Dropbox content in both Linux and windows without having to duplicate the content, we have to install Dropbox in the following way:

Go is a Google Developed modern open-source programming language. Go also known as Golang and offers a robust set of libraries. Popular applications like Docker, Graphana etc. are written in Golang

The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository provides additional software packages that are not included in the standard Red Hat and CentOS repositories.

On DL109 - Gaming with Liam @thenaughtysquid. We discuss @ubuntu, Plasma, @OBSproject, LinuxTracker woes. @AMD news on the @Radeon VII and our regular Tips, Tricks and Spotlight picks!

Renesas unveiled an “RZ-G2” family of up to octa-core Cortex-A53 and -A57 SoCs with an updated RZ/G Linux Platform with the 64-bit Arm CIP SLTS kernel for 10 year+ availability. There are also two 96Boards dev boards. Since Renesas Electronics Corp. announced its dual-core Cortex -A7 and -A15 based RZ/G family of SoCs back in […]

CS-Cart is an e-commerce platform that enables sellers to set up their virtual shopping center. It is currently maintained by the Simtech conglomerate. At the time of writing, CS-Cart does not offer a free version anymore – however, a free 30-day trial is available for their software. In this article, we will show you how to install CS-Cart on Ubuntu 18.04.

PostgreSQL or Postgres is a popular relational database management system. PostgreSQL is also an opensource and general-purpose database system which provides an implementation of SQL querying language.

Copying down is easy in a spreadsheet, but it's also possible on the command line. In this post, copying down is used to repair a messy table.