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

A spell checker is an important tool if your work involves writing or editing text files or documents. While most GUI based editors come with spell checking feature inbuilt, the same cannot be said for command line editors. However, there are separate command line tools that can help you with spell check.

security personnel seek to mitigate the risk of kernel-level attacks, they're going to need a better way to prioritize vulnerabilities for remediation. A group of researchers set to present at Black Hat USA in a couple of weeks are preparing to offer them a new exploit framework that they say can help...

Jenkins is an automation server with support for many SCM (Source Control Management) systems including Git, SVN, and Mercurial. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to automate your project. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up Jenkins master-slave architecture using the latest Ubuntu version Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. We will learn to set up the Jenkins master server, and then add other Ubuntu nodes as Jenkins slaves.

What on earth is RISC OS? Well, it's not a new kind of Linux. And it's not someone's take on Windows. In fact, released in 1987, it's older than either of these. But you wouldn't necessarily realize it by looking at it. The point-and-click graphic user interface features a pinboard and an icon bar across the bottom for your active applications. So, it looks eerily like Windows 95, eight years before it happened. read more

Michael Tremer announced today the release and general availability of a new major update of the professional and hardened Linux firewall distribution known as IPFire.

If you need to extract data from files, or simply display data in a new way, you need a script. AWK is a scripting language that does exactly that in a straightforward way. AWK (usually written as just "awk") originates from the 1970s and has become a standard feature on any Unix system. Named after its inventors—Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan—awk can tackle most jobs that you throw at it. read more

Linux Mint is popular with many users as a Windows alternative because the distribution is so down to earth. The creators calmly present meaningful novelties of Linux Mint 19 "Tara", which help in everyday life, such as a timeshift function and auto-updates.

MariaDB is an open source, multi-threaded relational database management system, backward compatible replacement for MySQL. In this tutorial we will show you two different methods on how to install MariaDB on your Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

Visual Studio Code, or VS Code, is an open source code editor that also includes tools for building and debugging an application. With the Python extension enabled, vscode becomes a great working environment for any Python developer. This article shows you which extensions are useful, and how to configure VS Code to get the most out of […]

Can you build a business around open source software? You don't have to look much further than RedHat or Cloudera to know that the answer is yes. If the company is run right, it can take customers from established players and grow to the point where it's poised to go public.

Want a top-flight laptop with a high-end Linux pre-installed? Then you'll want to check out Dell's latest XPS 13.

For those wanting to have a super clean Ubuntu desktop at all times, we are going to teach you guys how to delete the Rubbish Bin or Trash icon from the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 operating systems.

The free time of summer vacations or continuous hours is for many an ideal time to start more complex or long projects associated with some of their passions. If Arduino is among your interests and you want to reinforce your maker spirit, we propose 7 Arduino projects to do in summer.

Canonical announced today the first point release of the long-term supported Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series, which will be supported for five years with security and software updates.

In a previous article, Deploying new releases: Feature flags or rings?, I introduced feature flags and ring-based deployments, both enablers for the DevOps practice of progressive exposure. read more

Learn how to use the paste utility on practical examples to merge text files, and discover a couple of tricks and pitfalls of that command at the same time.

When I reached out to the developer of UniverCity, just to confirm Linux support was in I didn't get a reply I expected.

The Raspberry Pi has been very popular among hobbyists and educators ever since its launch in 2011. It’s a credit-card-sized single-board computer with a Broadcom BCM 2835 SoC, 256MB to 512MB of RAM, USB ports, GPIO pins, Ethernet, HDMI out, camera header and an SD card slot. The most attractive aspects of the Raspberry Pi are its low cost of $35 and large user community following.