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Several commands for adding and modifying users in a mysql database.

Did you ever try to configure a printer on a GNU/Linux desktop distribution at the end of the '90s? Or even before? To make a long story short: That was fine if you worked at a large organization with an IT team to handle it and dedicated hardware or a printing server. There were many different standards and protocols to handle printers. And only a few big vendors (usually Unix vendors) provided specific support and drivers for their entire range of products. read more

2DayGeeK: UUID stands for Universally Unique Identifier is used to identify a hard drives partition in Linux.

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding, and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods.

In 2018, I surpassed a few personal milestones. In February, I celebrated 15 years of working at Red Hat. Then, in May, I turned the big 40—so you can imagine why I might be feeling more reflective of life in general these days. read more

Teamviewer is a popular way for remote teams to collaborate, share screens and provide tech support. Learn how to install and use Teamviewer on Linux!

This tutorial explains how to install Samba on Ubuntu 18.04 and configure it as a standalone server to provide file sharing across different operating systems over a network.

News briefs for January 28, 2019.

As part of its new LF Edge initiative for open source edge computing, the Linux Foundation announced a new Project EVE based on Zededa’s cloud-native based virtualization engine for embedded containers. The LF Edge umbrella organization for open source edge computing that was announced by the Linux Foundation last week includes two new projects: Samsung […]

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Elizabeth Renieris about digital identity, ethics, boiled frogs, and horses with lasers.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released today a new version of his DebEX Linux Debian-based computer operating system that updates various components, including the Linux kernel.

Docker is a utility which allows a special type of virtualization. Docker allows for a program to be run “virtually” on a system by using a Docker image. An image can be downloaded or created which can then be run. Once the image is loaded and executed it is now a container. A container has allocated resources set aside for the program within the container.

Last week articles from our linux.conf.au speaker series and Kevin Sonney's open source tools series were big hits with readers. 

The Firefox 65 web browser is now available for download ahead of tomorrow's launch, January 29, 2019, when Mozilla will officially unveil the latest version in the "Quantum" series and the new features and improvements they worked on since Firefox 64.

E-Con has launched a Linux-driven “e-CAM130_CUXVR” robotics vision kit with up to 4x 13MP, MIPI CSI-2 cameras with synchronized 4K support, designed to work Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Xavier kit. E-Con Systems’ e-CAM130_CUXVR is its first camera kit based on Nvidia’s latest, Linux-powered Jetson AGX Xavier module. The kit includes a V4L2 Linux driver, Gstreamer 1.0, […]

The Nginx Application Platform is expanding, with new API management capabilities and a future direction to enable service mesh.

Webmin is a web-based opensource control panel for Linux systems. Webmin enables you to manage your server operations for system administration through a web-based interface.

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the 16th of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

This article will teach you a few techniques to attempt to rescue or reboot an unresponsive Linux system.

In this tutorial, we will go through the Vanilla Forum installation and setup on CentOS 7 system by using Nginx as a web server, MySQL as a database server, and optionally you can secure transport layer by using acme.sh client and Let's Encrypt certificate authority to add SSL support.