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Container technology has, for many years, been transforming how workloads in data centers are managed and speeding the cycle of application development and deployment. read more

Docker is everything but pretty; let's try to fix that. Here's a rundown of some GUI options available for Docker.

Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), the next major release of the popular Linux-based operating system, is currently in development, promising new features and enhancements.

YouTube Search Provider is a new extension for Gnome Shell which can be used to search for YouTube videos directly from the Gnome Shell Activities and play them using a desktop video player, like VLC.

The job of a Linux SysAdmin is always complex and often fraught with various pitfalls and obstacles. Ranging from never having enough time to do everything, to having the Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB) staring over your shoulder while you try to work on the task that she or he just gave you, to having the most critical server in your care crash at the most inopportune time, problems and challenges abound. I have found that becoming the Lazy Sysadmin can help. read more

Cubic, or Custom Ubuntu ISO Creator, is a GUI that can be used to create a custom bootable Ubuntu Live CD (ISO). While the application is targeted at Ubuntu, it also works on Linux Mint / is able to create a custom Linux Mint ISO. This article includes step by step instructions for how to create your custom Ubuntu or Linux Mint ISO using Cubic.

Moodle is a flexible and powerful free open source course management system and e-learning platform written in PHP and often deployed in Linux under Apache/Nginx web servers with PHP and MySQL/MariaDB database management system, also known as LAMP or LEMP stack. This tutorial will explain how to install and configure the latest version of Moodle in Debian 9 release in order to create an e-learning platform at your premises.

Each trade has a tool that masters in that trade wield most often. For many sysadmins, that tool is their shell. On the majority of Linux and other Unix-like systems out there, the default shell is Bash.

Yum is the default package manager for RPM packages on RHEL & CentOS. And most of you working on these OS should be familiar with it (for those of you who are not, read our article Working with Yum Commands ). In this article, we are going to discuss some Yum tips & tricks that we normally don’t know or use but are pretty useful.

KDE Plasma truly is a beautifully-designed Linux desktop. With so many themes to choose from, these are some of the best KDE Plasma themes around.

As global economies move ever closer to a digital future, companies and organizations in every industry vertical are grappling with how to further integrate and deploy technology throughout their business and operations.

Traceroute command is well known networking utility using which we can determine the number of hops between source & destination of a network packet. Not only does it show the number of hops, we will also get the information regarding the path/servers it goes through.

I recently spent some time chatting with Craig McLuckie, CEO of the leading Kubernetes solutions provider Heptio. Centered around both developers and system administrators, Heptio's products and services simplify and scale the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer OnePlus announced today that the forthcoming Android P software update would be available in the coming months to the OnePlus 3 and 3T, OnePlus 5 and 5T, as well as OnePlus 6 devices.

News briefs for June 30, 2018.

Linus Torvalds announced over the weekend the seventh and last Release Candidate (RC) milestone in the development cycle of the forthcoming Linux 4.18 kernel, and teased us with the final release for next week.

VIDEO: You can now smoothly move up from Ubuntu Linux 16.04, or later versions, to Ubuntu 18.04. Here's how to do it.

Readability counts. — The Zen of Python, Tim Peters read more

glogg, gvim, Geany and csvpad, but not spreadsheets.

Find out how to reconnect to Slack over IRC using a Bitlbee libpurple plugin.