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The widely used container application repository is the victim of a data breach, though Docker Inc. reports the impact is restricted to a small subset of users.

Designed for kiosk and “fat client” applications, Giada’s VESA mountable “BQ67” mini-tower runs Linux or Windows on 6th or 7th Gen Core CPUs with up to 3x HDMI and 12x USB ports. Giada, which manufactures a variety of signage, mini-PC, and thin client systems, such as the Giada i200 thin client, has launched a “fat […]

In August 2018, Opensource.com posted a poll with seven options asking readers: What was the most important moment in the history of Linux? I thought I would expand on the list and present 10 moments that I think have played an important part in shaping the history of Linux. 1. Linus releases Linux Linus Torvalds initially released Linux to the world in 1991 as a hobby. It didn't remain a hobby for long! read more

In this article, I will describe three ways to create an ISO file in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS trough command line and on the Desktop.

A couple of decades ago Gael Duval was a household name in Linux circles, even if he wasn’t quite as well known as Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, or Bruce Perens. Duval was the founder of what many consider to be the first user-friendly Linux distro, Mandrake, and as one of three co-founders of the French company MandrakeSoft, around the turn of the century brought the distro to something akin to rock star status among Linux users.

Recently, I wrote about how we solved the problem of Java 11 removing the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP), which was how an organization I work with distributed a critical business app. read more

Bludit is a simple, fast, secure, flat-file CMS that allows you to create your own website or blog in seconds. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bludit CMS installation and setup on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system by using NGINX as a web server.

The software featured in this article offer more than displaying PDF files; many are versatile document viewers.

Fedora provides awk as part of its default installation, including all its editions, including the immutable ones like Silverblue. But you may be asking, what is awk and why would you need it? Awk is a data driven programming language that acts when it matches a pattern. On Fedora, and most other distributions, GNU awk […]

2DayGeek: Lean how to install listed packages from a file in Linux.

TensorFlow is a free and open source platform for machine learning built by Google.

In a previous article we talked about the various type of JOIN we can use in a MariaDB/MySQL database. This time, instead, we take a look at the UNION statement: how it works, how we can use it to combine the result of queries run on different tables, and what are its peculiarities.

2DayGeek: jwhois command is the advanced technology of whois, which is very fast and highly configurable compared with whois command.

A retrospective is the act of dealing with past events and activities. The word comes from Latin, and it literally means "to look back." In the business world, a retrospective is a practice agile teams commonly use to reflect on how their work is done to improve how they do it so they continuously become better at it. read more

Elasticsearch is an open source distributed full-text search and analytics engine. It supports RESTful operations and allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data in real time.

How to safely create temporary files and directories to be used in Linux shell scripting. Learn some of the security concerns related to temporary files and how to implement best practices.

In this article, we will show you how to install ISPConfig 3 on a CentOS 7 VPS, as well as go through the initial configuration.

ISPConfig is an open-source hosting control panel for Linux which has a user-friendly web interface – with it, users can manage their websites, email addresses, FTP accounts, DNS records, databases, and shell accounts.

How to Install ISPConfig 3 on a CentOS 7 VPS. The ISPConfig has four different levels of user access, which are as follows: Administrator, Reseller, Client, and Email-user. Each of these has varying levels of access to ISPConfig’s menus.

On National Superhero Day, how would some of our favorite open source tools and mascots look if they were superheroes? Granted, open source tools are already kind of like superpowers in their own right. My take on this challenge is Open Force: Heroes of the Code! (with accompanying illustrations, of course). Download the original Krita art files and desktop wallpaper images for 4k, HD, and mobile devices from my GitLab repo. read more

The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.34 "Thessaloniki" desktop environment has officially kicked off as the GNOME Project announced today the release for public testing of the first development snapshot, GNOME 3.33.1.

Linux systems are designed in such a way that they can support multiple users. Because of this Linux systems should maintain the database for access permissions for different files and directories.