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In a forum, I often read the debate between the use of several types of package formats on Linux. In Ubuntu we know a variety of applications that are packaged in various packages. Examples are Flatpak, Appimage, Snap, Apt and others.

This article shows how to list tables in a MySQL or MariaDB database via the command line.

There are many flash players available, but for today’s article, we will use Pepper Flash that is maintained by Google and it is newer than the Adobe Flash player. In this article, we will see how to install pepper flash for chromium and Firefox browsers. We will use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS for describing the procedure mentioned in this article.

Icinga 2 is a free, open-source and most widely used monitoring system that can be used to monitor the health of networked hosts and services. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configured Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2 on Debian 10.

Radxa has opened $9.90 pre-orders for its tiny “Rock Pi S” SBC, which runs Linux on a quad -A35 RK3308. Meanwhile, FriendlyElec will soon ship a “NanoPi Neo2 Black” spin of the 40 x 40mm, Allwinner H5-based NanoPi Neo2 that adds eMMC, but reduces GPIO. Over the last year, the focus of the community-backed Linux […]

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the second point release of the latest KDE Applications 19.08 open-source software suite for Linux-based operating systems.

VisiData lets you quickly open, explore, filter and analyse tables of data, without leaving the terminal. It's fast, easy on memory and format-agnostic, but be prepared to learn a lot of VisiData keyboard commands.

One of the organizations keeping this technology with the times is IBM, with its IBM Z family of mainframe computers. Some of these mainframes—like the 31-bit s390 and, later, the 64-bit s390x architecture—were originally designed and built in the 1960s, and they have continued to evolve and modernize. With Linux, mainframes can run modern languages, toolings and CI/CD pipelines. If it runs on Linux, it can run on Z.

Prometheus is an increasingly popular—for good reason—open source tool that provides monitoring and alerting for applications and servers. Prometheus' great strength is in monitoring server-side metrics, which it stores as time-series data. read more

Currently, if you are a frequent computer user with an Internet connection, it is likely you have a lot of data stored. This is not only a bunch of personal documents or multimedia files but also data related to programs such as cache or temporary files. Over time, operating systems would slowly accumulate unnecessary files that could saturate them

American computer manufacturer System76 announced today that it has launched two Linux laptops with the Coreboot open-source firmware pre-installed.

Global climate change affects us all. It is, at its heart, an energy issue—a problem too large and too complex for any single person, company, university, research institute, science laboratory, nuclear trade association, or government to address alone. It will require a truly global, cooperative effort, one aimed at continued innovation across a range of technologies: renewables, batteries, carbon capture, nuclear power development, and more. read more

Recovering deleted files isn't easy, but it isn't impossible. Foremost is designed to forensically search your drive to recover deleted files in Linux.

You probably copy and paste snippets of text on your computer multiple times a day without ever thinking about it. You may take it for granted, because it's older than Unix, with its earliest implementation through macros or manual repetition of line-editor commands. While the process has largely remained the same over the past 15 years, there's a side to copy and paste that many users never see: the clipboard manager. read more

CRON is a task scheduler (a daemon) which runs commands at predetermined times and intervals. You can choose the exact time at which the command will run by setting the minute, the hour, the day and the month. You can also define the periodicity, e.g. a command can be configured to run every ten minutes, every fourth hour, or at a particular time on Sunday night.

Git is a distributed version control system that’s being used by most software teams today.

2DayGeek: This tutorial shows you how to change user and group ownership in Linux.

You might not be aware that SSH is a magical tool with many different uses. Using it, you can copy files between systems without logging into them, as if by magic.

For a system administrator, monitoring the performance of Ubuntu or any other OS, is very important. Since many performance monitoring tools are available for Ubuntu, it is difficult to choose a good and reliable one. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the most common performance monitoring, network monitoring and server monitoring tools.

Personal Package Archives (PPAs) allow you to install software, but there are times when you need to remove it. Here's how to remove PPAs in Ubuntu distro.