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Your Linux system may be bloated with lots of services that run in the background. Here's how to make Linux boot faster by disabling unnecessary services.

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News briefs for December 24, 2018.

By using Let’s Encrypt you can get a free valid SSL certificate. Let’s Encrypt is the Certificate Authority (CA) which provides free SSL certificate. To get SSL certificate Certbot client is used which fetches and deploys SSL certificate on your server.

GNOME Extensions are simply extra functionality that you can add to your interface, they can be panel extensions, performance extensions, quick access extensions, productivity extensions or for any other type of usage. They are all free and open source of course; you can install them with a single click from your web browser actually.

Linus Torvalds unleashed kernel 4.20, dubbed Shy Crocodile, on the world this past Sunday. There was speculation whether Torvalds would make the jump from 4.19 to 5.0, as he did when he skipped 3.20 and went with 4.0 instead. In the end, he stuck with 4.20, and 5.0 will probably be the number of the next kernel after this one.

GNOME Pomodoro is a time and focus management app which improves productivity and quality of work by balancing between work and rest time. If you want to learn more about this app, click here to read the article about it in detail.

2018 saw six new major Linux kernel releases and a substantial amount of innovation to boost the open source server operating system.

Giving Linux fans a little Christmas present, Linus Torvalds has announced that version 4.20 of the Linux kernel is now available.

Zabbix is very popular, easy to use, fast monitoring tool. It support monitoring Linux, Unix, windows environments with agents, SNMP v1,v2c,c3, agentless remote monitoring. It can also monitor remote environment with a proxy without opening port for remote environments. How to install and setup Zabbix on Debian is shown in this article.

2018 featured some fantastic content for agile aficionados, from techniques and tricks to run more focused and outcome-driven retrospectives to how Coding Dojos gave agilists a new perspective. Here’s our list of the top five most-read agile articles in 2018 (plus a few you might have missed).

Many times we need to clone/transfer database from one server to another. Whenever we are moving projects to new server from old server we need to copy files between to servers.

Continuing our round-up of the year’s best reads on Fedora Magazine, this stellar collection covers articles of particular interests to system administrators. Fedora supports and includes some superb tools for System Administrators, and these picks really highlight what’s on offer.

KDE 18.0.1 stable release is out and ready for you, not big improvement, only a refreshed ISO; the only change is the switch into matcha-sea theme. Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability.

The Virtualization Technology enables your processor to act as a number of independent computer systems. The article explains 4 methods to check if Virtual Technology is supported by your processor on a Ubuntu system.

If you've ever labored over how to pronounce unpronounceable IT terms, H. "Waldo" Grunenwald has your back. In his humorous Lightning Talk at All Things Open 2018, "'kubectl': The definitive pronunciation guide," Waldo offers over a dozen ways to pronounce "kubectl" before landing on the right answer. Want to know how to say it? Watch Waldo's talk. read more

Whenever possible, we should automate the tasks we perform. Automate tasks will make it easy to perform them, allowing us to do all the deployments of an application that we want with fewer possibilities of committing manual errors or it will allow us to have a new machine provisioned exactly as the production machine can be in much less time. In the field of machine provisioning and IT infrastructure management, there are several options, including Chef, Puppet and Ansible.

WordPress is by far the most popular open source blogging and CMS platform that powers over a quarter of world’s websites. It is based on PHP and MySQL and packs a ton of features that can be extended with free and premium plugins and themes.

Today is the final day of our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. Hopefully, you've been following along, but if not, start back at the beginning and work your way through. You'll find plenty of games, diversions, and oddities for your Linux terminal. And while you may have seen some toys from our calendar before, we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone. Today's toy was suggested by Opensource.com moderator Joshua Allen Holm: read more

It’s common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to all people, and above all a time for lists. So there’s no better time to compile a list for the year.