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The latest attack of a worldwide malware, the already famous WannCrypt, has not only made clear the security of hundreds of companies in the world but also how much we sometimes get involved in handling the terminology of these threats. Is a virus the same as a malware? And what is a ransomware and how is it different from other threats?

RaspEX developer Arne Exton released a new version of his RaspEX Linux operating system for Raspberry Pi devices based on the recently released Ubuntu 18.10 operating system.

After doing some searching, I couldn't find a command on my distribution that would simulate typing. I wasn't surprised; that's not a common thing people need to do. So instead, I rolled my own program to do it.

Sentrifugo is a powerful Human Resource Management System (HRM) written in PHP that uses MySQL/MariaDB as the database system. In this tutorial, we will be going to explain how to install Sentrifugo on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

piu-piu follows in the footsteps of well-traveled games. It’s a terminal based horizontal scroller game. There’s absolutely no fancy graphics, or immersive effects here. It’s ASCII graphics on the console.

At Firefox, we’re always looking to build features that are true to the Mozillia mission of giving people control over their data and privacy whenever they go online.

Ubuntu MATE lead developer and maintainer Martin Wimpress announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 18.10 as part of Canonical's Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) operating system series.

Your computer name, in technical terms, is also referred to as the hostname of your computer system. In this article, we will give a few simple ways to change your computer name through the graphical user interface and the command line.

In this article, we will explain in detail how to use the apt utility in order to manage packages on Ubuntu Linux command line.

Do you need complex, feature-packed graphical or web applications to get and stay organized? I don't think so. The right command line tool can do the job and do it well. Of course, uttering the words command and line together can strike fear into the hearts of some Linux users. The command line, to them, is terra incognita.

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in the standard Fedora repositories. 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 standard set of Fedora Fedora packages.

VIDEO: In the aftermath of Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network Linux-friendly patent consortium, many questions remained, and at Open Source Summit Europe, some of them were answered.

One open source software project I work on is the FreeDOS Project. It's a complete, free, DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS. So I took notice when Microsoft recently released the source code to MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 via a GitHub repository. This is a huge step for Microsoft, and I’d like to briefly explain why it is significant.

Renowned kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release and general availability for download of the Linux 4.19 kernel, a major update that adds new features and performance improvements.

Both du & df commands are important utilities of Linux system & shows disk usage of Linux filesystem. Here we will share usage of...

In the second of a two-part series, we continue to explore how we can import ideas from functional programming methodology into Python to have the best of both worlds. In the previous post, we covered immutable data structures. Those allow us to write "pure" functions, or functions that have no side effects, merely accepting some arguments and returning a result while maintaining decent performance. read more

NodeBB is a Node.js based forum software built for the modern web. In this guide, we will walk you through the step-by-step NodeBB installation process on the CentOS 7 operating system.

In this tutorial we will describe how to generate SSH keys on Debian 9 systems. We will also show you how to setup a SSH key-based authentication and connect to your remote Linux servers without entering a password.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Linux Journal's own Kyle Rankin about basic security hardening.

Monero is an up-and-coming cryptocurrency with a focus on privacy and security. Learn to mine and use Monero on your Linux PC.