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Learn how to use Git to track large multimedia files in your projects in the final article in our series on little-known uses of Git.

In the 14 years since Linus Torvalds developed Git, its influence on software development practices would be hard to match—in StackOverflow's 2018 developer survey, 87% of respondents said they use Git for version control. Clearly, no other tool is anywhere close to knocking Git off its throne as the king of source control management (SCM). In honor of Git's 14th anniversary on April 7, I asked some enthusiasts what they love most about it. Here's what they told me.

Did you ever want to know how to count the files based on the extension or pattern or group in the current directory ? If so, don’t worry, this tutorial is here to help you out on this.

Cut is a command line utility that allows you to cut parts of lines from specified files or piped data and print the result to standard output. It can be used to cut parts of a line by delimiter, byte position, and character. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the Linux cut command through practical examples and detailed explanations of the most common cut options.

BASH users know the difference between single and double quotes, but there are seven other quote characters to think about when processing text data.

Aaeon’s fanless, $1,067 “Boxer-8130AI” embedded computer runs Ubuntu on a Jetson TX2 module and features 6x MIPI-CSI2 camera lanes, -20 to 50°C support, and a wide-range power supply. Aaeon continues to spin different Boxer-branded, AI focused embedded computers based on Nvidia’s Jetson TX2 module. The latest Boxer-8130A focuses on vision processing applications such as machine […]

These IT certifications may open doors for newcomers, career-changers, or IT pros looking to build a new specialty

How to Find Directory Size in Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9. This tutorial explains how to find the size of a directory in operating systems like Ubuntu and Debian.

Collabora announced a new project that would allow Linux users to run Android apps on top of their Linux desktop environments under the Wayland display server.

When it comes to booting your Linux OS, there are the old and useful Grub and the newer and simpler systemd-boot. So which is better as a bootloader? Let's find out.

As I've tried to demonstrate in this series leading up to Git's 14th anniversary on April 7, Git can do a wide range of things beyond tracking source code. Believe it or not, Git can even manage your Git server, so you can, more or less, run a Git server with Git itself. read more

In this final part of our three-part series, we reach the conclusion everyone has been waiting for. The ultimate goal of using LDAP (in many cases) is enabling desktop authentication. With this setup, admins are better able to manage and control user accounts and logins. After all, Active Directory admins shouldn’t have all the fun, right?

2DayGeek: The inode stands for index node or index number is a data structure in a Linux file system.

Several KDE developers have been working on improving the lock, login, and logout screens of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, which will go live with the next major release, KDE Plasma 5.16.

Postman is a complete API development environment that helps you manage your APIs in every stage of development from designing and testing, to publishing API documentation and monitoring. Postman started as a Chrome browser extension and quickly become one of the most used API tools by developers all over the world.

Wave Computing has released its first open source MIPS ISA without license fees or royalties. The MIPS Open release includes the latest R6 version of the MIPS 32-and-64-bit ISA plus an IDE for embedded Linux and RTOSes and support for the free MIPSfpga core. As promised in December when Wave Computing made the surprising announcement […]

Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack OpenInfra Days UK 2019 Open-source software developers at Red Hat are working on a tool that would simplify deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal servers.…

When people refer to Linux, they are usually referring to a Linux distribution. Strictly speaking, Linux is a kernel, the core component of the operating system. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to check what Linux distribution and version is installed on your system using the command line.

Online news outlets have recently lamented the passing of Google's Chromecast Audio device. The device received favorable reviews in the audio press, so I had already been thinking about acquiring one. Given the news of Chromecast's demise, I decided to look for one at a reasonable price—before they were all snapped up or thrown in the dumpster. read more

Video: Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.