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This is the first article in a series about interprocess communication (IPC) in Linux. The series uses code examples in C to clarify the following IPC mechanisms: read more

GNOME Files (or Nautilus) has a batch file rename feature (introduced in version 3.22) which allows finding and replacing text in multiple filenames, as well as adding automatic numbers, or renaming files based on metadata. Batch file renaming based on image and music metadata doesn't work by default in Ubuntu though, inserting only the metadata name instead of the actual metadata.

2DayGeek: Learn how to bring down and bring up the network interface port (NIC) in Linux.

Mercurial is a distributed version control system written in Python. Because it's written in a high-level language, you can write a Mercurial extension with a few Python functions. There are several ways to install Mercurial, which are explained in the official documentation. My favorite one is not there: using pip. This is the most amenable way to develop local extensions! read more

Opera is one of the most popular cross-platform web browsers in the world. It is fast, easy to use and secure browser built for the modern web.

QMPlay2 can play most video formats and audio formats. It plays all codecs supported by FFmpeg, and supports YouTube videos too. With internet radio, Audio CD, and a lot more besides, there’s lots of functionality on offer.

I'm no stranger to diagnosing hardware problems on Linux systems. Even though most of my professional work over the past few years has involved virtualization, I still enjoy crouching under desks and fumbling around with devices and memory modules. Well, except for the "crouching under desks" part. But none of that means that persistent and mysterious bugs aren't frustrating. read more

mycli is a command line tool for MySQL, MariaDB as well as Percona & supports the following features, – Auto-completion, & Case sensitive completion, as soon we start typing commands this will come into...

Learn about 5 interesting Linux tools that will help break your dependence on the GUI and keep you productive on the command line.

MICROSOFT WAS NOTIFIED BUT DECLINED TO PATCH. Page said he notified Microsoft about this new IE vulnerability on March 27, but the vendor declined to consider the bug for an urgent security fix in a message sent to the researcher...

In 2000 IBM said it would support Linux on the mainframe, and, by 2009, 70 of IBM’s top 100 mainframe customers were estimated to be running Linux.

2DayGeek: This tutorial helps you to disable the root user access and permit it via su user in Linux for security reason.

In this tutorial, we will be going over how to install and set up Dotclear on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04. Dotclear is a free and open-source web publishing application, designed to provide a user-friendly interface that allows anyone to publish their ideas on the web. Dotclear is written in PHP install Dotclear on Ubuntu 18.04 and includes many built-in features, such as handling blogs, using XHTML syntax for entries, adding pages, and so on. It also supports several database types, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dotclear on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

RPM is a packaging system used by Red Hat and its derivatives such as CentOS and Fedora.

A little-appreciated feature of the command-line program ImageMagick is that IM can display data bytes as image bytes.

The Flatpak development team released today a new stable version of their Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework that implements a new major feature around the system-wide installation method.

Developed by Robotality (Halfway) and published by Chucklefish (Starbound, Wargroove), Pathway has released today with same-day Linux support.

VLC is one of the most popular open source multimedia players. It is cross-platform and can play virtually all multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, and different streaming protocols.

The latest version of OpenStack is more container and telecom friendly than ever.

For those who are itching to play an MMO on Linux but don't want to pay a subscription, Albion Online just opened up the flood gates.