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Hello again for another installment in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that helps you have fun at the terminal. Some of you will have seen various selections from our calendar before, but we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone. Today's toy if figlet, a utility for printing text in banner form across your Linux terminal.

In this article, I describe how Docker containers flow through the DevOps pipeline. I also cover some advanced DevOps concepts (borrowed from object-oriented programming) on how to use dependency injection and encapsulation to improve the DevOps process. And finally, I show how containerization can be useful for the development and testing process itself, rather than just as a place to serve up an application after it's written.

After promoting the Chrome 71 web browser to the stable channel earlier this month, Google has updated the Chrome OS operating system for Chromebook devices to version 71.

News briefs for December 18, 2018.

The launch of the game-changing System76 Thelio only solidifies this open source dream. CEO Carl Richell oozes the open source ethos, and that ideology comes through, to perfection, in their latest offering, the Thelio desktop, a machine as beautiful in design as it is in execution.

Wave Computing will follow in RISC-V’s path by offering its MIPS ISA as “open source” code without royalties or proprietary licensing. The MIPS Open initiative will focus on the development of SoCs for emerging IoT edge applications. The RISC-V Foundation, which promotes the development of processors built on a standardized, open source instruction set architecture […]

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of the fourth incremental update to the latest LibreOffice 6.1 series of the widely used open-source office suite.

This article shows how to create a Raspberry Pi Pandora music player with a Node.js powered web frontend—just in time for the holidays!

The “Adafruit Crickit HAT” is a Python-oriented RPi HAT add-on for robotics that includes servos, motor control, drive outputs, touch inputs, NeoPixel driver, 3W amp, and more. Adafruit has released a $35 robotics HAT add-on for any 40-pin Raspberry Pi board. The Adafruit Crickit (Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit) HAT is designed for controlling […]

The host of the Command Line Heroes podcast, Saron Yitbarek, kicks off each episode with a sound-studded description of an event that sets the stage for the topic of the episode. Sometimes it's a speech from Al Gore, and sometimes its the Mars Curiosity Rover landing. You should go have a listen. In the final episode recap, Yitbarek walks us through "how open source fuels some of humankind's grandest projects." read more

If you are a true command line-savvy person like me, you might notice that the Terminal application is almost always open on your Ubuntu. If that’s the case, we would recommend you a drop-down console called Tilda.

Programming is about languages, of course, but also much more. Along with good languages, programmers need toolsets to support coding: software development kits (SDKs), command-line utilities for source-code inspection and even editing, package managers, repositories targeted at developers, and so on. The ten articles listed below cover programming in this broad sense. read more

Riak is a distributed NoSQL database that offers high-availability, fault tolerance, operational simplicity, and scalability. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure the NoSQL database Riak KV on CentOS 7 server.

Cron is a scheduling daemon that executes tasks at specified intervals. These tasks are called cron jobs and are mostly used to automate system maintenance or administration.

Back in 2016, I took down the shingle for my technology coaching business. Permanently. Or so I thought. Over the last 10 months, a handful of friends and acquaintances have pulled me back into that realm. How? With their desire to dump That Other Operating System™ and move to Linux. read more

Most Linux distros have migrated to systemd, which comes with a different log daemon, journald. You will need to use the journalctl utility to read system logs.

The Open Source community has done quite an excellent job with producing professional-grade photography applications. Here is the list of what I regularly use.

Tarballs provide a versatile way to back up and manage groups of files on Linux systems. Follow these tips to learn how to create them, as well as extract and remove individual files from them.

Slax 9.6 was released last November. So we downloaded the latest release and tried it, our experience with it was great so far, see our review below for a detailed tour in Slax.

News briefs for December 17, 2018.