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There are multiple ways of finding out to which package a particular file belongs to, on Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint. This article presents two ways of achieving this, both from the command line (apt-file and dpkg).

Applications that used Android's SlidingDrawer library enabled users to hide content offscreen, then drag it onscreen using a "handle" when they wanted to use it. Unfortunately, the library was deprecated in Android 4.2, JellyBean (API 17), but independent developers have stepped in to create alternative versions for those who miss the cool animation and better UI experience it offered. read more

Gitea is a fork of Gogs, the easy to use self-hosted Git service. It is similar to GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install and configure the lightweight Git service using Gitea using Docker on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

In this article, you will learn how you can use the nmap command in order to view which devices are connected to your network. This way you can verify that no unauthorized device is connected.

With the recent release of Fedora 29, Fedora 27 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status on November 30, 2018. This impacts any systems still on Fedora 27. If you’re not sure what that means to you, read more below. At this point, packages in the Fedora 27 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. […]

Zabbix is one of the most popular open source monitoring software tools. Zabbix collects metrics from your networks devices, systems and applications and ensures they are up and running. In case of any issues Zabbix will send notification alerts via various methods.

Zabbix can be deployed for agent-based and agent-less monitoring. The Zabbix agent has a small footprint and can run on various platforms, including Linux, UNIX, macOS and Windows.

Screencasts have a wide variety of uses. This type of software is also often used to demonstrate operating systems, software actions, website features, troubleshooting, and evaluating technical skills.

Over the last two decades, open source has been expanding into all aspects of technology—from software to hardware; from small, disruptive startups to large, boring enterprises; from open standards to open patents. read more

A reverse proxy is a server that takes the requests (http/https) & then transfers or distributes them to backend server. Backend server can be an application server like Tomcat, wildfly or Jenkins etc or...

With Linux playing key roles in the IoT, cloud technology, supercomputing and AI, and with a plethora of conferences and new releases on the horizon, Linux is poised to have a very exciting 2019.

I do most of my writing in a text editor and format it with Markdown—articles, essays, blog posts, and much more. I'm not the only one, either. Not only do countless people write with Markdown, but there are also more than a few publishing tools built around it. Who'd have thought that a simple way to format web documents created by John Gruber and the late Aaron Schwartz would become so popular? read more

Gumstix’s Linux-driven Overo IronStorm-Y module and Caspa VL camera traveled to Mars on a pair of “MarCO” CubeSat satellites, helping to confirm the successful landing of NASA’s Mars Insight lander. When the Mars Insight lander set down on the Martian surface on Nov. 26, the landing signal that followed the “seven minutes of terror” descent […]

Pantheon is a popular Linux desktop environment, but it's not available for Ubuntu. Learn how to install Pantheon on you Ubuntu PC.

In 1990, I was a 9th grader living in Vietnam. I had never had access to a computer. One day my mother returned from a trip and gave me a book titled "How to program with Turbo Pascal." I was delighted—everything I read in that book made sense, and I started to write code on paper. When the local university opened a computer lab that offered rentals, I spent all of my allowances for weeks, trying to write the classic Pong game in Pascal. read more

Understanding what is going on in your network environment is crucial to health of your system. Using a syslog server enables you to send event messages and multiple logs from your network devices to...

Necuno Solutions and KDE are collaborating to offer Plasma Mobile on the Necuno Mobile, a device Necuno describes as "a truly open source hardware platform". With a focus on openness, security and privacy, the Necuno Mobile is built around an ARM® Cortex®-A9 NXP i.MX6 Quad and a Vivante GPU.

If you are a new Ubuntu admin user, you might want to know how to change the password in Ubuntu Linux server through bash shell or the command line. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you might want to display the contents of a file in columnar format. You'll be glad to know there's a command line utility in Linux that lets you do this. The tool's name is column.

Clock's ticking on Ellison's smack talk. re:Invent AWS boss Andy Jassy has doubled down on claims Amazon will "be done" with Oracle databases by 2019, and used his Re:Invent keynote to throw shade at Big Red.…

As we sit here, in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen (better known as "the future, where the robots live"), our beloved Linux is the undisputed king of supercomputing. Of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, approximately zero of them don't run Linux (give or take...zero).