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Want to stream video torrent files with VLC media player without having to download the complete torrent and only then start playing it? There's a VLC plugin, called vlc-bittorrent, that's able to do just that, which was added to the Debian repositories about a month ago.

We don’t talk about our databases enough. In this age of instrumentation, we monitor our applications, our infrastructure, and even our users, but we sometimes forget that our database deserves monitoring, too. That’s largely because most databases do their job so well that we simply trust them to do it. Trust is great, but confirmation of our assumptions is even better.

While I haven't seen it noted in any of the recent changelogs for the Steam Client Beta, it seems it has an updated Steam Runtime in need of some testing.

The grep command which stands for “global regular expression print” is one of the most powerful and commonly used commands in Linux. Grep searches one or more input files for lines that match a given pattern and writes each matching line to standard output. If no files are specified, grep reads from the standard input which is usually the output of another command.

News briefs for October 24, 2018.

The EdgeX Foundry IoT middleware project announced nine new members including Intel, and launched an Ubuntu-driven development kit based on an octa-core Artik 710 module. The Linux Foundation’s EdgeX Foundry project for developing open source edge computing middleware has released its first developer kit.

Once again, users of the Linux Lite operating system are among the first to receive the most recent Linux kernel series, Linux 4.19, which is now available for installation from the official repositories.

The latest attack of a worldwide malware, the already famous WannCrypt, has not only made clear the security of hundreds of companies in the world but also how much we sometimes get involved in handling the terminology of these threats. Is a virus the same as a malware? And what is a ransomware and how is it different from other threats?

RaspEX developer Arne Exton released a new version of his RaspEX Linux operating system for Raspberry Pi devices based on the recently released Ubuntu 18.10 operating system.

After doing some searching, I couldn't find a command on my distribution that would simulate typing. I wasn't surprised; that's not a common thing people need to do. So instead, I rolled my own program to do it.

Sentrifugo is a powerful Human Resource Management System (HRM) written in PHP that uses MySQL/MariaDB as the database system. In this tutorial, we will be going to explain how to install Sentrifugo on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

piu-piu follows in the footsteps of well-traveled games. It’s a terminal based horizontal scroller game. There’s absolutely no fancy graphics, or immersive effects here. It’s ASCII graphics on the console.

At Firefox, we’re always looking to build features that are true to the Mozillia mission of giving people control over their data and privacy whenever they go online.

Ubuntu MATE lead developer and maintainer Martin Wimpress announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 18.10 as part of Canonical's Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) operating system series.

Your computer name, in technical terms, is also referred to as the hostname of your computer system. In this article, we will give a few simple ways to change your computer name through the graphical user interface and the command line.

In this article, we will explain in detail how to use the apt utility in order to manage packages on Ubuntu Linux command line.

Do you need complex, feature-packed graphical or web applications to get and stay organized? I don't think so. The right command line tool can do the job and do it well. Of course, uttering the words command and line together can strike fear into the hearts of some Linux users. The command line, to them, is terra incognita.

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in the standard Fedora repositories. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the standard set of Fedora Fedora packages.

VIDEO: In the aftermath of Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network Linux-friendly patent consortium, many questions remained, and at Open Source Summit Europe, some of them were answered.

One open source software project I work on is the FreeDOS Project. It's a complete, free, DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS. So I took notice when Microsoft recently released the source code to MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 via a GitHub repository. This is a huge step for Microsoft, and I’d like to briefly explain why it is significant.