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Episode 17: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bob Erdman, Security Product Manager for Helpsystems about Linux security threats.

Puppy Linux is one of the tiniest Linux distros. It loads into RAM and runs from it making it faster than most Linux distributions. Puppy Linux 8.0 "Bionicpup" came out yesterday with a couple of new features and latest software.

Intrinsyc’s 50 x 25mm, $225 “Open-Q 660 ?SOM” runs Android 9.0 on the high-end Snapdragon 660 and offers 802.11ac, BT 5.1, 4GB LPDDR4, and 32GB eMMC plus support for 4K DP, 2x MIPI-DSI, 3x MIPI-CSI, and high-end digital audio. Qualcomm’s octa-core Snapdragon 660 appeared on Intrinsyc’s Open-Q 660 HDK Mini-ITX dev kit back in 2017 […]

Modularity lets you keep the right version of an application, language runtime, or other software on your Fedora system even as the operating system is updated. You can read more about Modularity in general on the Fedora documentation site. The Modularity folks have been working on Modules for everyone. As a result, the Fedora Modularity […]

In this article, we will describe four ways using which a user can log out of his/her Ubuntu session using UI, the Keyboard shortcut, the application launcher search bar, and through the Ubuntu command line.

There's a lot more to printing from the Linux command line than the lp command. Check out some of the many available options.

Ansible is an automation tool centered around configuration and orchestration management. One important thing that many systems administrators and engineers need to be aware of when using Ansible is how to optimize it to improve its speed and performance. Here are some tips and tricks to keep in mind. read more

There are plenty of ways to tackle the word substitution from the command line, ranging from Perl to awk, but here I'm using the original UNIX command sed (stream editor) designed for exactly this purpose.

Wiki.js is an open source, modern and powerful wiki app based on Node.js, Git, and Markdown. Wiki.js runs on the blazingly fast Node.js engine and is optimized to conserve CPU resources.

I remember the very first time I encountered Vim. I was a university student, and the computers in the computer science department's lab were installed with Ubuntu Linux. While I had been exposed to different Linux variations (like RHEL) even before my college years (Red Hat sold its CDs at Best Buy!), this was the first time I needed to use the Linux operating system regularly, because my classes required me to do so. Once I started using Linux, like many others before and after me, I began to feel like a "real programmer." read more

A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is a Database Management System (DBMS) that is based on the relational model. Most database systems today are based on this type of system.

Learn how to use pwquality pam module to create a password policy in Linux. We also discuss the use of character credits and how they effect your policy.

PrestaShop is a free and open-source e-commerce platform. It is based on PHP and MySQL and can be extended with free and premium plugins and themes. With features like intuitive administrative interface, multiple payment gateways, multi-lingual, analytic and reporting PrestaShop is a platform of choice for many online merchants.

If you're the Linux Mint and KDE lover, then you know that starting from Linux Mint 19 "Tara", your beloved Linux distro has stopped shipping with KDE. So Linux Mint KDE has died a brutal death. But we can revive the combination of two best software, i.e. Linux Mint on KDE.

There's no euro symbol on my keyboard, but I can enter that character in any document or in my terminal with Ctrl + Shift + u +20ac. I can do the same with "umlaut a" (00e4) and "cedilla c" (00e7) and the degree symbol (00b0) and... Wait! Who am I kidding? There's no way I can remember all those Unicode code points. For this reason I wrote a script for quick and easy retrieval of my most-often-used special characters from a GUI.

We are saddened to see that the largest body associated with Linux (the kernel and more) is not really eager to see GNU/Linux success; it’s mostly concerned about its bottom line (about $100,000,000 per annum)

In this tutorial, we'll explain how to set up a static IP address on Ubuntu 18.04.

How to Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu. HTTPS ensures that no information is passed as plain text. It’s recommended to use SSL certificates on all websites.

In this first piece, I’ll be demonstrating the installation and configuration of OpenLDAP on Ubuntu Server 18.04. All you will need to make this work is a running instance of Ubuntu Server 18.04 and a user account with sudo privileges.

Mozilla released the first point release to its latest Firefox 66 web browser to address two critical security vulnerabilities exposed during the Pwn2Own hacking contest event.