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If you want to automatically mount USB drives on a server running Debian or Ubuntu (including Raspbian or Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi) you can use a simple, but very effective tool called USBmount.

There are old laptops in each house that can no longer function fully. Using standard operating systems, for example, Windows or Linux becomes almost impossible. However, you can still use the old laptop effectively.

There has long been a stigma associated with using record-and-playback tools for testing rather than scripted QA automation tools like Selenium Webdriver, Cypress, and WebdriverIO. read more

Back when I started college, in the fall of 1988, I was introduced to a text editor called Emacs... The GNU folks talked about software with extreme intensity, as if the fate of the entire world rested on the success of their software replacing its commercial competition.

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News briefs for April 4, 2019.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) indexes an amazing array of libraries and applications covering every use case imaginable. However, when it comes to installing and using these packages, newcomers often find themselves running into issues with missing permissions, incompatible library dependencies, and installations that break in surprising ways. read more

Although I haven't been with Linux Journal since the beginning, I was there during the heyday, the stroke, the decline, the death and the resurrection. This article is about that story and what it says about how the FOSS community has changed.

Video: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gets work done on many platforms -- including, believe it or not, the Raspberry Pi.

The du command displays the amount of file space used by the specified files or directories.

In this short tutorial we take a look at the SECONDS built in shell variable. We discuss what it is, how to use it and formatting it to cleanly display the time a shell script took to execute.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform that helps manage container applications such as Docker. It can speed up server deployment and save you time and money

2DayGeek: Four ways to check user login history in Linux.

Git is one of those rare applications that has managed to encapsulate so much of modern computing into one program that it ends up serving as the computational engine for many other applications. While it's best-known for tracking source code changes in software development, it has many other uses that can make your life easier and more organized. In this series leading up to Git's 14th anniversary on April 7, we'll share seven little-known ways to use Git. Today, we'll look at GIC, a Git-based chat application read more

Learn to assign multiple IP addresses to a single NIC (Network Interface Card). This process of assigning multiple addresses to a single network interface is called IP...

Monitoring network activity can be a tedious job, but there are good reasons to do it. For one, it allows you to find and investigate suspicious logins on workstations, devices connected to networks, and servers while identifying sources of administrator abuse. You can also trace software installations and data transfers to identify potential issues in real time rather than after the damage is done. read more

This tutorial will show how to backup the data on a server, denominated as the main server, to another host, here named backup server, with the free software backup program Borg.

eWEEK: The open-source Apache Web Server project has patched six flaws in the new 2.4.39 update, including a critical issue that could potentially put cloud and shared web hosting providers at risk.

With Spotify, you can play your favorite songs and albums free on Linux. In this article, we will describe two ways to install/uninstall Spotify on your Ubuntu. You can make a choice based on the source you want to install it from and also if you want to use the UI or the command line.

A fun a lighthearted look at the Linux yes command. A little something different to break the monotony, of all the hardcore Linux that has gotten to be, a little bit out of control it's cool to enhance. But what about a piece that soothes and moves jubilance.