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Monitoring is one of the main task that anyone SystemAdmin or even a normal user should know about to get the best out of their systems/servers & avoid any issues. In this tutorial, we...

In this tutorial, we will describe how to change the Ubuntu Desktop theme in order to customize the desktop by using the GNOME Tweaks utility.

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. It aims to be the best language for a variety of programming projects, ranging from systems programming to desktop applications and scaling up to cloud services. Read more about it and how to try it out in […]

Network Inventory Management collates all network infrastructure data and keeps it up to date, helping to streamline processes that improve operational performance. Network inventory management solutions offer reporting functions, and process modeling to automate work-intensive, back-office processes. With this software the system or network administrator will know what is on their network, how it is configured, and when it changes.

As Linux adoption expands, it’s increasingly important for the kernel community to improve the security of the world’s most widely used technology. Security is vital not only for enterprise customers, it’s also important for consumers, as 80 percent of mobile devices are powered by Linux. In this article, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman provides a glimpse into how the kernel community deals with vulnerabilities.

If your Linux server is accessible to the public, you need to know how to protect it. Here are 3 resources you should use to harden your Linux server.

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform developed by Apache Software Foundation and written in Java and Scala. Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn, and was open sourced in 2011. In this tutorial, we will show you how to step-by-step install and configure Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 18.04.

UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced today that it plans to release the Linux and macOS ports of the XCOM 2: War of the Chosen - Tactical Legacy Pack DLC later this year.

News briefs for October 2, 2018.

Security researcher Enrico Weigelt uncovered a critical security issue in the way Skype installs itself on Debian Linux machines, adding its Microsoft's APT repository in the system's sources.list file.

Recently, Facebook has open-sourced its machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) framework: PyTorch. Now, it's matured to the point that a beta of PyTorch 1.0 has been released. Facebook is pushing forward with its own open-source machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) framework.

When it comes to accessing socket related information through the command line in Linux, the first tool that comes to mind is netstat. However, there's another utility that can do this work for you. It's called ss.

Advantech-Innocore announced a Linux-ready “DPX-E265” gaming and lottery board based on AMD’s Ryzen V1000 that features 4x DP++ ports, 2x SATA, plus M.2, PCIe x16, and PCIe x4 expansion. Advantech-Innocore announced the DPC-E140 casino gaming platform board in February in conjunction with AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 announcement and followed up with an Intel 7th Gen […]

No matter what your reasons for starting a small business, the key to keeping that business going is getting paid. Getting paid usually means sending a client an invoice. It's easy enough to whip up an invoice using LibreOffice Writer or LibreOffice Calc, but sometimes you need a bit more. A more professional look. A way of keeping track of your invoices. Reminders about when to follow up on the invoices you've sent. read more

Nornir is a Python library for automating network connected devices. You can compare it to Ansible, which is mainly used to automate configuration and management of Linux servers.

Moodle is a popular open-source learning management system (LMS) written in PHP. It was built to help educators easily create quality online courses. In this article, we will show you how to install Moodle on a CentOS 7.

Years ago, I decided to set up an extra computer (I always have extra computers) so that I could access it from work to transfer files I might need. To do this, the basic first step is to have your ISP assign a fixed IP address. read more

XAMPP stands for cross-platform(X), Apache(A) server, MariaDB(M), PHP(P) and Perl(P). It is built by Apache Friends and basically serves as a local host or a local server. In this article, we will describe a step-by-step method for installing this application stack on your system.

KDE Neon 5.13.5 is the latest stable release of KDE neon 5 based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver and Linux Kernel 4.15 series. Features KDE Plasma 5.13.5 desktop environment, which brings numerous enhancements and new features.

You may have already seen the article here in the Magazine about upscaling bitmap images with better quality. That article covered a few utilities to achieve good results, but there’s always room for enhancement. Meet Waifu2x, a sophisticated tool that uses deep convolutional neural networks, or machine learning for short. Therefore it benefits from trained […]