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Neptune Linux developer Leszek Lesner announced today the release and general availability of Neptune 5.5, an incremental update to the Neptune Linux 5 operating system series that brings the latest technologies and software updates.

News briefs for August 28, 2018.

KVM or Kernel-Based Virtual Machine provides a virtual environment used for running one or more additional operating systems besides the primary system without interfering with its functions. In this tutorial, we will describe how to install and use a virtual machine using the open-source virtualization platform-KVM.

In Linux, if you want to print a file's content on stdout, the first command that comes to mind is cat. However, there may be times when the requirement is to remove certain part of the file and print only the rest of the content. You'll be glad to know there exists a tool - dubbed cut - that lets you do this.

Only thing left now is a Supreme Court bid Over eight years of feuding between Oracle and Google over the use of Java code in Android may be nearing its end following a Tuesday court ruling.…

Nexcom’s compact, IP67 protected “VTC 1911-IPK Telematics IoT Gateway” runs on a Bay Trail Atom and offers CAN 2.0B, dual mini-PCIe and SIM slots, GPS, 2x GbE, SATA, and more. It’s resistant to shock, vibration, humidity, and -40 to 70°C temperatures. With flooding and sea-level rise on the rise due to climate change, there will […]

As a revamp of Everyday Linux User begins this article answers the questions "why would I switch from Windows to Linux?"

What's the practical risk with 3D-printed firearms today? In this opinion piece, Kyle explores the current state of the art.

In a complex IT environment, even the smallest tasks can seem to take forever. Sprawling systems are hard to develop, deploy, and maintain. Business demands only increase complexity, and IT teams struggle with management, availability, and cost. How do you address this complexity and while meeting today's business demands? There is no doubt that Ansible can improve your current processes, migrate applications for better optimization, and provide a single language for DevOps practices across your organization. read more

Teach Mutt yet another trick: how to filter messages in your Inbox with a simple macro.

Wave the the CPU trust flag if you're feeling safe enough Linux v4.19-rc1, release candidate code published on Sunday, allows those building their own kernel or Linux distribution to choose whether or not to trust the CPU hardware random number generator, a decision that has become complicated in the wake of the revelations about government surveillance over the past five years.…

Linux command-line aliases are great for helping you work more efficiently. Better still, some are included by default in your installed Linux distro. This is an example of a command-line alias in Fedora 27: read more

ModSecurity WAF (Web Application Firewall ) is an open source software firewall that is used to safeguard applications from attacks & unauthorised access. ModSecurity WAF can be used as a module with already installed...

VIDEO: A new open-source license addendum, Commons Clause, has lawyers, developers, businesses, and open-source supporters fighting with each other.

In this new series, we'll focus on DevOps monitoring and observability tools. Over the next few weeks, we’ll explore metrics aggregation and monitoring, log aggregation, alerting and visualizations, and distributed tracing. Alternatively, you can download the entire open source guide to DevOps monitoring tools now. Let’s get started. read more

SELinux or Security Enhanced Linux is advanced access control mechanism which was developed by US security agency NSA to prevent malicious intrusions & tempering. It implements MAC (Mandatory Access control) over already present DAC (Discretionary Access Control ) i.e. read, write , execute permissions.

The latest example of patent trolls that receive their patents from Microsoft's troll, Intellectual Ventures, and the urgent need for a permanent solution which isn't just Microsoft's 'protection' racket

Ibase launched an “SI-324” signage PC that runs Ubuntu or Windows on a Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoC with up to 32GB DDR4, 4x 4K HDMI 2.0, 2x GbE, 2x USB 3.0, mini-PC and M.2 expansion, and remote EDID management. Ibase’s rugged SI-324 was announced in brief back in February as one of the first products […]

One of the core feature of any Linux system is that they are built for automation. If a task may need to be executed more than one time - even with some part of it changing on next run - a sysadmin is provided with countless tools to automate it, from simple shell scripts run by hand on demand (thus eliminating typo errors, or only save some keyboard hits) to complex scripted systems where tasks run from cron at a specified time, interacting with each other, working with the result of another script, maybe controlled by a central management system etc.

This tutorial will outline the steps to install and manage Nginx on a Debian machine.