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2DayGeek: apt-clone is allow us to backup the installed packages and restore them on fresh Ubuntu system on demand.

In this article, I will show you how to install VMware tools in Ubuntu 18.04 TLS. You can also apply these methods on the older versions of Ubuntu.

Recently, David Humphrey posed a seemingly straightforward question on Twitter. When was the MIT License created? I can't find any source that gives a year. read more

Docker and Arm have announced a partnership that will allow containerized applications for Arm to the developed on x86 hardware.

Open Source Graylog server allows you to gather logs from different sources and visualize the logs in a web interface. Learn how to configure Graylog server.

In this guide, I'll show you how to manage files using ansible modules. You will learn how to copy, edit, insert, download and replace files using Ansible.

Video: Making fast hash tables in programming, which don't cause collision trouble, is one of computing's holy grails. Facebook thinks it's created a good one.

Phorum is a PHP and MySQL based Open Source forum software. In this guide, we will guide you step-by-step through the Phorum installation process on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system using Nginx as the web server, MySQL as the database, and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

I love containers. You love containers. We all love containers. But is our love for them blinding to us the fact that we often don't really know what's running within them? Containers are only as secure as their contents.

Gogs is a self-hosted open source git server written in Go. It includes a repository file editor, project issue tracking, and a built-in wiki. This tutorial covers the steps to install and configure Gogs on Ubuntu 18.04. The same instructions apply for Ubuntu 16.04 and any other Ubuntu-based distribution.

Sapphire has launched an “AMD FS-FP5R 5?5” SBC with an AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 SoC plus 2x GbE, 3x DP++, USB 3.1, SATA III, and M.2 expansion. Sapphire also sells two Ryzen V1000 based SBCs. Hong Kong based Sapphire Embedded Solutions is primarily known for its gaming and graphics cards, but it also has an […]

Harvey, a color conformance app for keeping accessibility in mind when designing websites, has been released as flatpak app recently. I've tried the app and found it to be simple but effective.

Building on the success of Firefox Quantum, we have a renewed focus on better enabling people to take control of their internet-connected lives as their trusted personal agent — through continued evolution of the browser and web platform — and with new products and services that provide enhanced security, privacy and user agency across connected life.

Before I begin this test of Linux graphic design tools, I should admit two things up front. First, I am a designer, not a software developer. Second, although I try to incorporate open source methodologies and principles wherever I can, my field pretty much demands that I use Adobe software on a sticker-emblazoned MacBook Pro. (I know, hate me if you must.) For the purposes of this research project, however, I am running Fedora 29 on a repurposed Mac Mini. read more

HTTP is the protocol used by the World Wide Web, that's why being able to interact with it programmatically is essential: scraping a web page, communicating with a service APIs, or even simply downloading a file, are all tasks based on this interaction. Python makes such operations very easy: some useful functions are already provided in the standard library, and for more complex tasks it's possible (and even recommended) to use the external requests module.

This is a step by step guide on how to change your username on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint (and other Linux distributions based on Debian/Ubuntu), and Fedora.

In the first article in this series, I explained how to use your GPG key to authenticate your SSH connections. If you're like me, you already have one or more existing SSH keys. And, if you're like me, you also don't want to have to log into every server you use to update the authorized_keys file. A way around this is to import your existing SSH keys into your GPG key. This will eliminate the need for private key files. read more

Today I decided to look at the situation from a certain angle, and present you ten reasons to change Windows to Linux in 2019.

2DayGeek: These commands allows you to check your current run level details.

Timely backups are important. So much so that backing up software is a common topic of discussion, even here on the Fedora Magazine. This article demonstrates how to automate backups with restic using only systemd unit files. For an introduction to restic, be sure to check out our article Use restic on Fedora for encrypted […]