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Github is a web based implementation of Git. Similar to Git, it is a distributed version control system & also offers the source code management functionality offer by Git. Github has all the features...

More than one year after the release of the Mageia 6 Linux-based operating system series, the first point release is now available to download as Mageia 6.1 hit the download channels over the weekend.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t take notes. Most of the people I know use an online note-taking application like Evernote, Simplenote, or Google Keep. All of those are good tools, but they’re proprietary. And you have to wonder about the privacy of your information—especially in light of Evernote’s great privacy flip-flop of 2016. If you want more control over your notes and your data, you need to turn to an open source tool—preferably one that you can host yourself. read more

The shell is the most powerful tool your computer provides. Despite having it at their fingertips, many users are unaware of how much the shell can accomplish. Starting with the basics of the shell, you will learn simple commands and how to apply them to real-world issues. From there, you'll learn text processing, web interactions, network and system monitoring, and system tuning.

This is the second in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

Listing contents of a directory is one of the most basic tasks that users (both pro and noobs) find themselves involved in. The ls command is hands down the most popular tool used for this purpose. There are some alternatives. For example, there's a utility called vdir, basics of which we'll be discussing here.

I recently began driving a car that had traditionally used premium gas (93 octane). According to the maker, though, it requires only 91 octane. The thing is, in the US, you can buy only 87, 89, or 93 octane. Where I live, gas prices jump 30 cents per gallon jump from one grade to the next, so premium costs 60 cents more than regular. So why not try to save some money? read more

The SSH configuration file contains all the settings for your SSH. Learn how you can customize the SSH configuration file to improve the security of your server.

This tutorial will show you how to disable the FirewallD service and install iptables

Linux developer Simon Peter who has spent years working on application standards like AppImage and Klik recently presented on what he believes are the 2018 Desktop Linux Platform Issues and the unfortunate continually moving target of "the year of the Linux desktop" that never materializes.

There comes a time where you need to find information about a certain process, often to find out what its ID is to parse to the 'kill' command. However, it need not necessarily be for that, of course. Two commands will be explained in this guide: 'ps' and 'top'. Both of these should be in a standard Linux installation.

In this article, we will talk about the Android Model particularly the Linux Kernel layer, over which Android is built. We will also talk about Android’s security features and offerings and how Linux plays a role to secure Android OS.

MySQL is an open source relational database management systems. It is a multi-user, multi-threaded database management system. MySQL is especially popular on the web, being one element of the popular LAMP development platform (Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP programming language).

The Pixel family is about to welcome a new member on October 9: The Pixel Slate (also known under the code name “Nocturne”), a new Pixel tablet that uses Chrome OS and may provide a viable alternative to Chromebooks for many Google fans... Chrome OS now has Linux app supporter, Android Pie,

One ... quality Linux distro that isn't super popular is Mageia. It is a fork of the once wildly popular Mandriva operating system. Today, Mageia 6.1 becomes available for download. It features LTS Linux kernel 4.14 and updated Nvidia drivers.

CubieTech has posted specs for a “CubieBoard9” SBC with a quad -A53 Actions S900 SoC with 3GB LPDDR3, 16GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and dual independent displays with HDMI, MIPI-DSI, LVDS, and eDP. A product page has appeared on the CubieTech website for an unpriced CubieBoard9 SBC that appears to be a replacement for the Cubieboard4.

Kuryr-Kubernetes is an OpenStack project, written in Python, that serves as a container network interface (CNI) plugin that provides networking for Kubernetes pods by using OpenStack Neutron and Octavia. read more

Nginx Server Blocks allows you to run more than one website on a single machine. With Server Blocks, you can specify the site document root (the directory which contains the website files), create a separate security policy for each site, use different SSL certificates for each site and much more.

Red Hat is adding Ansible DevOps capabilities to its Red Hat Satellite system management program.

Heard of Jenny Everywhere? Me neither, until I was looking for media to use for an open source character drawing contest I was involved in. As I Googled my way around the internet, I happened upon Jenny Everywhere. read more