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The first rule of cryptography club is: never invent a cryptography system yourself. The second rule of cryptography club is: never implement a cryptography system yourself: many real-world holes are found in the implementation phase of a cryptosystem as well as in the design. read more

Anchor is a super-simple, lightweight blog system written in PHP. Anchor's source code is hosted on GitHub. In this tutorial, we will go through the Anchor CMS installation process on a Debian 9 (stretch) operating system by using NGINX as a web server and MariaDB as a database server.

VirtualBox is a free open source virtualization software allows you to run multiple operating systems. VirtualBox is also a cross-platform software which is available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS etc. operating systems. Ubuntu global repository also supports VirtualBox installation through it, but it always does not provides the latest version of VirtualBox.

DevOps has become the default answer to fixing software development processes that are slow, siloed, or otherwise dysfunctional. But that doesn't mean very much when you're new to DevOps and aren't sure where to begin. This article explores what a DevOps pipeline is and offers a five-step process to create one. While this tutorial is not comprehensive, it should give you a foundation to start on and expand later. But first, a story. read more

A new GIMP version is out after 5 months of development. Unlike previous major versions of GIMP, the 2.10 branch allows some new features and enhancements to be added to the stable releases, and the latest GIMP 2.10.10 includes quite a few, including some notable Bucket Fill tool improvements, parametric brushes now support 32-bit floats, and more.

Apache Maven is a free open source project management software that can be used to manage the build, reporting and documentation of a project from one central location. It is based on the conception of a project object model and is used in particular for the deployment of Java-based projects.

Bash and Python are most automation engineers' favorite programming languages. Both have pros and cons, and sometimes it can be hard to choose which one you should use. The honest answer is: It depends on the task, the scope, the context, and the complexity of the task. Let's compare these two languages to get a better understanding of where each one shines. read more

Poddr is a graphical podcast player that shares similarities with CPod. For example both are web-technologies based using the Electron framework.

Google’s failed social network is now just another empty storefront on the Boulevard of Abandoned Tech.

The Linux startup process goes through several stages before reaching the final graphical or multi-user target. The initramfs stage occurs just before the root file system is mounted. Dracut is a tool that is used to manage the initramfs. The dracut emergency shell is an interactive mode that can be initiated while the initramfs is […]

This article refers to some of the Linux commands you should never run on your system as they might prove to be DEADLY for your Linux systems. So before I proceed, I would like...

Learn how to create systemd timer units to schedule jobs. We also discuss the benefits of using timer units over cron jobs.

By default, users that can log in to the system via SSH, SFTP and SCP can browse the entire filesystem including other user’s directories. This may not be a problem if these users are trusted, but if you don’t want the logged in users to navigate around the system you will need to restrict user access to their home directory. This adds an extra layer of security especially on systems with multiple users.

"I absolutely detest modern media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram," Torvalds told Linux Journall in a new interview. "It's a disease. It seems to encourage bad behavior." In particular, Torvalds said he takes issue with how social media is geared to generate as much engagement as possible.

Open source is all over the media, IBM announced its acquisition of Red Hat, one of the largest in tech history, for $34 billion. Microsoft announced its agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. It seems the world’s largest companies are either releasing or acquiring their own open-source software — but opinions on this trend are divided.

?Have you stumbled over here looking across the Internet, for the 2019 list of best GNOME desktops? Lucky you then, I'm glad you are at the right place and hopeful that you'll find this article helpful in case you are considering trying out a new Linux distro. Or just reading this article for fun. Alright, below are the list of Linux distros that I think are the best of 2019's GNOME desktops.

In this article, I am going to show you how to install and configure the vsftpd FTP server on Ubuntu. vsftpd is an open source FTP server. It is very secure and extremely fast. vsftpd is also stable. It is easy to configure as well.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2019 issue.

Learn how to use Git to track large multimedia files in your projects in the final article in our series on little-known uses of Git.

In the 14 years since Linus Torvalds developed Git, its influence on software development practices would be hard to match—in StackOverflow's 2018 developer survey, 87% of respondents said they use Git for version control. Clearly, no other tool is anywhere close to knocking Git off its throne as the king of source control management (SCM). In honor of Git's 14th anniversary on April 7, I asked some enthusiasts what they love most about it. Here's what they told me.