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Most people probably don't remember where they, the computing industry, or the everyday world were in 1996. But I remember that year very clearly. I was a sophomore in high school in the middle of Kansas, and it was the start of my journey into free and open source software (FOSS).

open source database platform is making some big gains

Agedu is a simple command line utility that tracks down the wasted disk space in your Linux system.

AMD announced today the third-generation line up of its latest AMD Ryzen 9 "Threadripper" processor family, the Ryzen 3950X, Ryzen 3960X, and Ryzen 3970X.

Starting, stopping, and restarting/reloading are the most common tasks when working with an Apache webserver.

The Cockpit series continues to focus on some of the tools users and administrators can use to perform everyday tasks within the web user-interface. So far we’ve covered introducing the user-interface, storage and network management, and user accounts. Hence, this article will highlight how Cockpit handles software and services. The menu options for Applications and […]

SSH, for Secure Shell, is a network protocol that is used in order to operate remote logins to distant machines within a local network or over Internet. In SSH architectures, you will typically find a SSH server that is used by SSH clients in order to perform remote commands or to manage distant machines. In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can install and enable SSH on CentOS 8 distributions.

Canonical announced today a partnership with Nvidia to certify its Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system on the NVIDIA DGX-2 AI systems in an atempt to accelerate the adoption of AI and ML in multi-cloud environments and at the edge.

I've been ripping CDs to my computer for a long time now. Over that time, I've used several different tools for ripping, and I have observed that each tool seems to have a different take on tagging, specifically, what metadata to save with the music data. By "observed," I mean that music players seem to sort albums in a funny order, they split tracks in one physical directory into two albums, or they create other sorts of frustrating irritations.

If you need to find out how to install FreeOffice in Linux, we have you covered. Here's how to download it as well as FreeOffice's features and drawbacks.

Version 1.39.0 of the Rust language is available.

Two popular tools for testing network services on a basic level are telnet and Netcat. Here's how to use them.

Nano is a text editor for the Linux terminal. It is simple to use and comes with powerful keyboard shortcuts. Here's how to use it.

I received my new Darter Pro (darp6) yesterday as my new 'work' laptop. My only complaint was the time from order to ship - which was ~15 days.

Overall I love this thing - no complaints. Please check out the video below to watch!

This article shows you how to set up some powerful tools in your command line interpreter (CLI) shell on Fedora. If you use bash (the default) or zsh, Fedora lets you easily setup these tools. Requirements Some installed packages are required. On Workstation, run the following command: sudo dnf install git wget curl ruby ruby-devel […]

CentOS 8 has been released on Sep 23rd, 2019 ISO's are available on the official website. This tutorial I will show you how to upgrade from Centos 7 to Centos 8.

Previously, I explained the importance of forking repositories. Once I finished the actual "writing the code" part of making my first open source pull request, I felt excellent. It seemed like the hard part was finally over. What’s more, I felt great about the code that I wrote.

Adding a user is one of the first things you do on a new computer system. And you often have to manage users throughout the computer's lifespan. My article on the useradd command provides a deeper understanding of user management on Linux. Useradd is a command-line tool, but you can also manage users graphically on Linux. That's the topic of this article.

Advantech’s “ROM-5620” SMARC 2.0 module runs Linux or Android on a dual- or quad-core i.MX8X and offers 2GB LPDDR4, 16GB eMMC, and optional industrial temperature support. While covering Advantech’s newly announced, i.MX8M based ROM-5720 SMARC 2.0 module and i.MX8 QuadMax based ROM-7720 Qseven module, we noticed a product page for an i.MX8X-based ROM-5620 SMARC 2.0 […]

Like a particular module? You're one command away from being able to donate some dosh for it. NPM Inc, maintainer of the widely used JavaScript package manager npm, has taken a step toward fulfilling a promise made in August to help open-source developers seek compensation for their labor.