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It's fairly easy to extract a zip archive in Linux. Even so, there are more advanced ways you can open zip files and deal with their contents.

This detailed article tells you about various repositories like universe, multiverse in Ubuntu and how to enable or disable them.

NTP or Network Time Protocol is a protocol that is used to synchronize all system clocks in a network to use the same time. In this article, we will describe a step-by-step procedure on how to install and configure NTP server and client on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

After taking a look at how curly braces ({}) work on the command line, now it’s time to tackle brackets ([]) and see how they are used in different contexts.

News briefs for March 26, 2019.

As the world's largest and one of the most influential open source foundations, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is home to more than 350 community-led projects and initiatives. The ASF's 731 individual members and more than 7,000 committers are global, diverse, and community-driven. read more

Just because you are using XFCE doesn't mean it has to be ugly. Looking to spice up the look of your XFCE desktop? There're plenty of XFCE themes around.

UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced that it plans to release a port of the acclaimed DiRT 4 rally-themed racing video game to Linux and macOS platforms.

We've already discussed some of the basic loops used in the C programming language, including for, while, and do...while. In this part of our Linux C Programming tutorial series, we will show you how to use switch, break and continue statements in C.

Do you have an old Raspberry Pi lying around gathering dust, maybe after a recent Pi upgrade? Are you curious about BSD Unix? If you answered "yes" to both of these questions, you'll be pleased to know that the first is the solution to the second, because you can run NetBSD, as far back as the very first release, on a Raspberry Pi. read more

Part of an ongoing series of articles we do about the Linux Foundation

Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL database with no single point of failure, providing linear scalability and high availability. In Cassandra, records are structured in a similar way as in the relational database with tables, rows, and columns. Apache Cassandra is used by a number of organizations including Apple, NetFlix, eBay, and Easou.

Kubernetes Basic PHP Application with Nginx on Google Cloud. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system. It allows you to create, update, and scale containers without any downtime.

Kubernetes is a platform for reducing toil cunningly disguised as a platform for running containers. The element that allows for both running containers and reducing toil is the Kubernetes concept of a Controller.

Oracle released Java 12 last week, and the new release can now be installed in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian from the Linux Uprising Java PPA. The new version will receive a minimum of 2 updates, and it will followed by Oracle JDK 13 in September 2019.

News briefs for March 25, 2019.

When it comes to backing up a Fedora Silverblue system, some of the traditional tools may not function as expected. BorgBackup (Borg) is an alternative available that can provide backup capability for your Silverblue based systems. This how-to explains the steps for using BorgBackup 1.1.8 as a layered package to back up Fedora Silverblue 29 […]

There's an old saying, "anything worth doing, is worth automating"—or something like that. Downloading and reading Linux Journal always has been worth doing, and now you can automate it with our autolj script.

Axiomtek’s rugged, Linux-friendly “eBOX625-312-FL” is an Apollo Lake embedded PC with 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.0, 2x mini-PCIe, 3x serial, lockable HDMI, and a SATA bay. The eBOX625-312-FL is the typical, rugged industrial computer of our current era. There’s nothing particularly exciting about it, but assuming that it indeed offers “effective pricing,” this could be […]

In anticipation of the upcoming Open Networking Summit, we talked with Thomas Nadeau, Technical Director NFV at Red Hat, who gave a keynote address at last year’s event, to hear his thoughts regarding the role of open source in innovation for telecommunications service providers.