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The web browser market is an active war zone. You never know what can happen next. I am a guy who has always used Chrome. I’d never even bother using anything else. The first thing that I’d ever do on a new system is install Google Chrome. I would say I actively avoided even having to use anything else. I do install Firefox and opera but they are always used for separating my personal and work environment.

2DayGeek: Multiple methods to check hostname in Linux.

VMware Workstation Player allows you to create and run your own virtual machines and evaluate software distributed as a virtual appliance from many software vendors available from VMware’s Solution Exchange. VMware Workstation Player is not open source and it is free only for personal non-commercial use.

The Debian Project announced today the general availability of the eighth point release to the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system series.

Data insertion is very important in understanding MySQL databases. If the right data is not inserted in the right columns, we may get a lot of errors. Let us quickly create a small employee table by running the following command.

In this tutorial we will show you how to make three versions of a countdown timer in bash. We start with a simple countdown timer, then progress to a more colorful version, and finally a fancy version which uses tput for screen coloring and cursor positioning. This is an excellent way to display time left on script with a long wait period.

If you are roaming the open source world, chances are you encounter .tar.gz file on a regular basis. Open source packages are generally available to download in .tar.gz and .zip formats. The tar command is used to create tar archives by converting a group of files into an archive. It supports a vast range of compression programs such as gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, lzop, xz and compress. Tar was originally designed for creating archives to store files on magnetic tape which is why it has its name “Tape ARchive”.

2DayGeek: Are you forgot your root password? if so, try one of the following method to reset it.

The android x86 project finished porting the android 8.1 Oreo system to the x86 architecture few weeks ago. In this post, we’ll explain how to install it on your Linux system so that you can use your android apps and games any time you want.

With the "nl" and "uuidgen" commands and AWK, you can number a list of records any way you like on the command line.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 14 excellent plotting tools. Many of the applications are very mature. For example, gnuplot has been in development since the mid-1980s.

Linux and Unix are often compared to each other. If the similarity in their names wasn't enough, Linux is technically a descendant of Unix, and they share a number of similarities in tool kits and overall structure. They aren't exactly the same, though, and the approaches and philosophies behind them are radically different.

Android Things will now focus solely on OEM-built smart speakers and displays. Google is discontinuing public access to i.MX8M, Snapdragon, and MediaTek based production modules for the OS. Google announced it is scaling back Android Things as a general-purpose IoT platform. The Arm-based production boards from Innocomm, Intrinsyc, and MediaTek that that Google was reselling […]

The Ubuntu-based BackBox Linux operating system designed for penetration testing, ethical hacking, and other security evaluations is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The following guide shows you how to Flush the DNS Cache in Ubuntu 18.04, alongside with it we will also educate you regarding why you should consider Flushing your DNS Cache once in a while.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick from the Linux terminal. You can use this USB stick to boot and test out or install Ubuntu on any computer that supports booting from USB.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the first physical Raspberry Pi store, NVIDIA's hyper-realistic face generator, Microsoft joining the OpenChain project, and more.

A introductory tutorial on Linux IO, Standard Streams, their file descriptors and redirection. This covers the three basic input output stream (stdin, stdout, and stderr) and well as explains their file descriptors. It also examines practical use cases for each including redirection.

If your ISP doesn't provide you with a dedicated IP address, you can make use of a VPS and reverse SSH tunnel to allow external connections. Here's how.

Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds If the web seems slow, blame third-party advertising and analytics scripts.…