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If you want to have some fun this coming weekend pranking your colleagues or friends, there's now an Electron app with Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system that you can run on Linux, Mac, or even Windows computers.

Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers in the world. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of installing Apache on a Debian 9 server.

People use Linux every day. Today almost all electronic products are built on Linux and the most popular ones are Android devices. Every day almost 850,000 Android devices are activated which is the largest compared to any other mobile devices manufacturer such as Windows phone, iPhone etc. It's not just smartphones that Linux runs but every other gadget from your TV to a refrigerator is running on Linux. So how is this all possible and what is Linux all about? Let's talk about this.

The ubiquitous topic of edge computing has so far primarily focused on IoT and machine learning. A new Linux Foundation project called Akraino Edge Stack intends to standardize similar concepts for use on edge telecom and networking systems in addition to IoT gateways. The goal to build an “open source software stack that supports high-availability cloud services optimized for edge computing systems and applications,” says the project.

Whenever you are asked to type a password in Ubuntu terminal, you insert your password without getting any visual display or a feedback from the screen. In such a situation, there are the chances that you may mess up with your password by entering it wrongly.

In Linux, the pipe command lets you sends the output of one command to another. Piping, as the term suggests, can redirect the standard output, input, or error of one process to another for further processing. The syntax for the pipe or unnamed pipe command is the | character between any two commands: Command-1 | Command-2 | …| Command-N read more

ONLYOFFICE is an open source solution that comprises comprehensive online document editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, CRM and project management, mail, calendar, chat, and more. This tutorial shows how to Integrate Twilio VoIP with ONLYOFFICE.

A Linaro spinoff called Foundries.io unveiled a continuously updated “microPlatforms” IoT service with managed Linux and Zephyr distros. The Linux platform is based on OE/Yocto and Docker container code. A Cambridge, UK based startup called Foundries.io, which is funded by Linaro and led by former Linaro exec George Grey, has launched a microPlatforms service with […]

A long time ago, I set up a WordPress blog for a family member. There are lots of options these days, but back then there were few decent choices if you needed a web-based CMS with a WYSIWYG editor. An unfortunate side effect of things working well is that the blog has generated a lot of content over time. That means I was also regularly updating WordPress to protect against the exploits that are constantly popping up. read more

Processes form the core of a running Linux system. When a program converts into a process (which is when it's executed), a lot of attributes are set. Sometimes, you may want to change these attributes at runtime. There exists a command line tool chrt that lets you do this.

Redmond created executable installers with vulnerable tools Security researcher Stefan Kanthak claims that the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 executable installers (x86 and x64) were built with insecure tools from several years ago, creating a vulnerability that could allow privilege escalation.…

If you want to run or update a task when certain files are updated, the make utility can come in handy. The make utility requires a file, Makefile (or makefile), which defines set of tasks to be executed. You may have used make to compile a program from source code. Most open source projects use make to compile a final executable binary, which can then be installed using make install. read more

Google has laid down the plans for its upcoming Chrome web browser and Chrome OS operating system for Chromebooks, version 69, which will introduce lots of exciting new features and improvements.

Prometheus is a free and open source software ecosystem that allows us to collect metrics from our applications and stores them in a database, especially a time-series based DB. It is a very powerful monitoring system suitable for dynamic environments.

Ex-Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell announced today that his KDE neon Linux-based operating system is now available for the Pinebook 64-bit ARM laptop.

Kubernetes Operators simplify the entire lifecycle of stateful resources from packaging the application and deploying it to a Kubernetes cluster all the way up to managing and scaling the app.

Government to cut Microsoft off at the end of 2018 Microsoft’s desire to move users into the exciting world of Office 365 subscriptions has been dealt a blow as the Israeli government took a look and said “no thanks.”…

News briefs for August 22, 2018.

IEI’s rugged, “TANK-860-QGW” IPC computer for M2M and IoT runs a Qnap-derived QTS Gateway Linux distro on a 4th Gen Core CPU with dual SATA bays and up to 6x PCIe slots. IEI Technology has spun a rather singular embedded PC that aims to replace barebones IPC (interprocess communications) systems with something a bit more […]

I've said it before. I'll say it again: Red Hat, not content with being a Linux power, wants to be a cloud powerhouse. Need proof? Look no further than the newest beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6. The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes a big step forward into the cloud.