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FreeIPA is mainly a directory service, where you can store information about your users, and their rights regarding login, become root, or just run a specific command as root on your systems that are joined your FreeIPA domain, and many more. Although this is the main feature of the service, there are optional components that can be very useful, like DNS and PKI - this makes FreeIPA an essential infrastructural part of a Linux-based system. It has a nice web-based GUI, and powerful command line interface.

Green Hu posted a patch to support the NDS32 architecture. He described the current status as, "It is able to boot to shell and passes most LTP-2017 testsuites in nds32 AE3XX platform."

After installing a new Operating System that we intend to use for long, we start noticing the things we would like to customize according to our needs, preferences, and personal choices. In this article, we will mention ways to change some of the basic settings that a user prefers to alter almost immediately after installing a new operating system.

If you primarily work on the Linux command line, text editing is likely one of the most frequent tasks that you may find yourself involved in. The colrm command in Linux lets you remove selected columns from a file.

Arm and Facebook have joined Intel and TI as Platinum members of the Yocto Project for embedded Linux development. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation announced 47 new Silver members. The Linux Foundation’s seven-year old Yocto Project was originally an Intel project, and the chipmaker has continued to nurture it over the years. Yet, the Yocto Project’s […]

A few weeks back I stumbled across this Reddit thread with a short Bash snippet telling me how to get a list of my most-used terminal commands. read more

VIDEO: Steam's dream of Linux-powered Steam gaming machines never came to fruition, but the company has returned to Linux by bringing Windows-based games to Linux with a software-only approach.

Nexcom’s 12.1-inch VMC 4020 and 10.4-inch VMC 3021 in-vehicle touch-panel PCs run on an Apollo Lake SoC and provide extensive ruggedization features including IP65 protection. You also get 4x mini-PCIe, 3x camera, 2x CAN, 9-60V power, and optional UPS and PoE. We recently covered a Nexcom telematics computer called the VTC 1911-IPK with an Intel […]

Dandified yum, better known as DNF, is a software package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions that installs, updates, and removes packages. It was first introduced in Fedora 18 in a testable state (i.e., tech preview), but it's been Fedora's default package manager since Fedora 22. Since it is the next-generation version of the traditional yum package manager, it has more advanced and robust features than you'll find in yum. Some of the features that distinguish DNF from yum are: read more

While working with files and folders as a Linux Administrator, we frequently need to access and edit files and folders that require root permissions. This tutorial shows you how to do that easily trough Nautilus file manager.

Many new users who come from Windows to Linux start with Ubuntu, Mint or Zorin. In this guide I highlight 5 reasons why Manjaro Linux should be your first port of call.

Perhaps you're one of the few people who didn't notice, but a few months back, Microsoft bought GitHub. Nothing against either company. Microsoft has become a vocal supporter of open source in recent years, and GitHub has been the de facto code repository for a heaping large number of open source projects almost since its inception. read more

In this tutorial we will show you how to use `kill` and `killall` utilities to terminate a process in Linux.

There is a good range of open source software available to write and compile BASIC programs. The table below shows our 11 recommended free BASIC software.

In my article 5 reasons the i3 window manager makes Linux better, I shared the top five reasons I use and recommend the i3 window manager as an alternative Linux desktop experience. In this post, I will walk through the installation and basic configuration of i3 on Fedora 28 Linux. 1. Installation Log into a Fedora workstation and open up a terminal. Use dnf to install the required package, like this: read more

Windows can stay on your computer, when you install Linux Mint 19! It's handy to turn your computer into a dual boot machine. That way you can choose each time you turn on your computer, what operating system you want to boot: Mint or Windows.

As is the case for many open source enthusiasts, I am the go-to person in my family for solving PC issues. I enjoy messing with computers and solving technical challenges. Over the last few weeks, I had a lot of Windows encounters. There are 3 reasons to write about this: 1) I found a great tool to retrieve the Windows license key from openSUSE and I like to write about this tool. 2) I encountered a lot of driver issues on Windows, I like to share the problem and the way to solve it. 3) The grass is not greener on the other side.

This tutorial covers the installation of Invoice Ninja onto Centos 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB. Invoice Ninja is free and self-hosted platform for invoicing, billing and payment management based on Laravel.

Netdata is a free, open source, simple and real-time performance and health monitoring tool with a beautiful web front-end. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to install Netdata performance Monitoring tool on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Exploring the nuances of writing a pair-matching memory game and one-dimensional arrays in Bash.