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Having problems with services failing to start because other services are taking too long? Here's one person's solution.

Ansible has long been seen as more than configuration management—it's an orchestrator more than anything, a conductor of the orchestra rather than playing a singular instrument. Since realising this, various tech communities have used Ansible to automate some interesting technology arenas.

It was fun to work at a large web property in the late 1990s and early 2000s. My experience takes me back to American Greetings Interactive, where on Valentine's Day, we had one of the top 10 sites on the internet (measured by web traffic). We delivered e-cards for AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, and others, as well as providing e-cards for partners like MSN and AOL.

Fedora 31 Workstation comes with a Firefox backend moved from X11 to Wayland by default. That’s just another step in the outgoing effort of moving to Wayland. This affects Gnome on Wayland only. There is a firefox-wayland package available to activate the Wayland backend on other desktop environments (KDE, Sway) Wayland architecture is completely different […]

Vivaldi Technologies have released today the Vivaldi 2.9 web browser for desktop platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, a release that adds various improvements.

WordPress is a free, open-source and most widely used content management system in the world. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install WordPress with Nginx on CentOS 8 server and then we secure the server by using a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

A promising, potentially exciting, freedom-respecting set of products would be easier to talk about than actually deliver; we take a look at what goes on at Purism

Data-fetching scheme seems to be catching on. At the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, Matt DeBergalis, co-founder and CTO at data plumbing biz Apollo GraphQL, urged companies to appoint a data graph champion to help ease the implementation of GraphQL, a query language for fetching data.…

Port knocking is a method of dynamically opening network ports by "knocking" (i.e. connecting) on a predefined sequence of ports. This is especially useful for obscuring an open network port from port scanning since the port in question will be closed unless the port knocking sequence is executed.

Vecow launched two compact, rugged embedded PCs with Intel’s 8th Gen Whiskey Lake-UE. The Linux-ready SPC-5000 and -5100 offer 4x 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen2 ports and SUMIT expansion with optional 10GbE modules, and the RES-3000 features IP67-protected M12 ports. Vecow announced a fanless, rugged SPC-5000 computer and almost identical, but wider-temp SPC-5100, equipped with Intel’s […]

LXDE is one of the lightest graphical environments for the Linux desktop, and you can add an app launcher panel in LXDE so as not to consume many resources

Ever felt lost in the output of traceroute? Here we interpret the 'starscape'.

Awk is a powerful text-parsing tool for Unix and Unix-like systems, but because it has programmed functions that you can use to perform common parsing tasks, it's also considered a programming language. You probably won't be developing your next GUI application with awk, and it likely won't take the place of your default scripting language, but it's a powerful utility for specific tasks.

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2DayGeek: This tutorial allows you to get the process ID (PID and PPID) of a program running on Linux.

This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. For this week, we survey open source music players for the RPI4.

A new version of the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) 2.10 stable series was released recently - 2.10.14. This release includes a new "Show All" view mode that shows pixels outside the canvas boundary, new "Image" transform type, and more. Also, images opened with GIMP will now default to 72 PPI when no explicit resolution is stored in the imported file.

GitLab has swiftly backtracked on plans to add telemetry services to track usage of its products. VP of product Scott Williamson announced on 10 October that "to make GitLab better faster, we need more data on how users are using GitLab".

The new release of the popular programming language includes capabilities to help developers produce better code, but it might take a while for enterprise adoption.

Eurotech announced a “ReliaGate 10-14” DIN-rail gateway that runs Linux and its ESF IoT stack on an i.MX8M Mini with 2x GbE, DP, isolated serial and DIO, WiFi/BT, optional LTE, and security features including anti-tamper.

Linux inventor (and chief maintainer) Linus Torvalds says that the kernel is getting more reliable, and he is not anxious about it being used in safety-critical systems. Torvalds, being interviewed on stage at the Open Source Summit in Lyon yesterday, told onlookers: "I don't do speeches any more."