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Using the correct timezone is important for many systems related tasks and processes. For example, the cron daemon uses the system’s timezone for executing cron jobs and the timestamps in the log files are based on the same system’s timezone.

Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system would be delayed for a week, until February 14th, due to a boot error that cannot be fixed in time.

The open source Kubernetes startup Rancher makes public its easy way to deploy containerized applications to multiple clusters.

The top command in Linux lets you monitor currently running processes and the system resources they are using. This article describes various ways in which you can use the top command to keep a check on your system activities as an administrator, much more efficiently.

Shoshana Zuboff's new book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism goes into gory details of how companies collect, use, buy and sell your data for profit, often without consent or even the consumer knowing it was happening, until disasters reveal some of the dark underbelly—like the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But, I’m a marketer, so I will focus on the subset of “surveillance marketing”—also known as “digital marketing”—where companies profit off of you, because they are set up to do so.

In 2018, we saw a clear demonstration of the free and open source software (FOSS) business model's importance when IBM moved to purchase Red Hat for $34 billion. The FOSS ecosystem also celebrated its durability last year, as the Open Source Initiative (OSI) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the open source movement. read more

The Linux-only video editor Flowblade has released its new version with workflow overhaul, new tools and refreshed UI. Check it out.

This select set of Linux commands can help you master the command line and speed up your use of the operating system.

We round up the most popular articles from the past week.

Steam is a cross-platform entertainment platform developed by Valve Corporation for purchasing and playing video games. It gives you access to thousands of games and allows you to meet new people.

Cachet is a beautiful and powerful open source status page system written in PHP that allows you to better communicate downtime and system outages to your customers, teams, and shareholders. In this tutorial, we will install Cachet status page system by utilizing PHP, Nginx, MySQL, and Composer on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Ansible playbook files are text files in a YAML format. People who work regularly with them have their favorite editors and plugin extensions to make the formatting easier. When I teach Ansible with the default editor available in most Linux distributions, I use Vim's visual mode a lot. It allows me to highlight my actions on the screen—what I am about to edit and the text manipulation task I'm doing—to make it easier for my students to learn.

Knowing when a file was used, accessed or changed can help to detect unauthorized access. Here is how you can find out when a file was accessed or modified in Linux.

You may have heard of Cloud-Player which was released under the GNU General Public License. It’s recently been relaunched/rebranded as aux.app. In this article, I’ll look at the native Linux player for aux.app. This streaming player plays music from YouTube, SoundCloud, and Deezer.

NetLogo is an open source, cross-platform tool that enables users to model a wide variety of natural and social phenomena (including biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, physics, psychology, art, and much more). It's a great way to learn how to develop small, agent-based model simulations and explore how large and small changes can affect an environment.

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages.

Everyone goes to FOSDEM in Brussels to learn from its massive collection of talk tracks, colloquially known as developer rooms, that run the gauntlet of curiosities, covering programming languages like Rust, Go, and Python, to special topics ranging from community, to legal, to privacy. After two days of nonstop activity, many FOSDEM attendees move on to Ghent, Belgium, to join hundreds for Configuration Management Camp (CfgMgmtCamp). read more

As a sysadmin, you’ll often need to list all the users on your Linux system. This tutorial shows you how to list all users in the Linux command line.

Most stable Linux distributions don't come with newer software in their repository. Here is how you can run bleeding edge software on Debian and Ubuntu.

Friday was Mike Fey's first day on the job as the new CEO of Mesosphere. The six-year-old San Francisco-based startup announced his selection in December to fill the shoes of previous CEO, co-founder Florian Leibert, who announced in September plans to find a replacement to lead the company going forward.