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We covered many high quality file managers in our Qt File Managers Roundup and GTK File Managers Roundups. But there are graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. Here’s our favorites.

In Why should you use Rust in WebAssembly?, I looked at why you might want to write WebAssembly (Wasm), and why you might choose Rust as the language to do it in. Now I'll share what that looks like by exploring ways to embed Rust inside JavaScript. read more

Microsoft is still preying on GNU/Linux using patents, notably software patents; it wants billions of dollars served on a silver platter in spite of claims that it reached a “truce” by joining the Open Invention Network and joining the LOT Network

The Solus Project announced today the general and immediate availability for download of the long-anticipated Solus 4 Linux-based operating system.

The term LEMP is an acronym of the names of its four open-source components: Linux operating system, Nginx [engine x] an HTTP and reverse proxy server, MySQL or MariaDB relational database management system, and PHP programming language.

The Linux tee command is a very simple yet useful utility. This article will teach you the basics of the tee command along with a few advanced use cases. Learn how to pipe output from a command into multiple other commands. Also tailing a file while saving it's output, a handy trick all SysAdmins should know. This article covers the basic usage, but also some more interesting and advanced use cases for tee.

Linus Torvalds kicked off today the development cycle of the forthcoming Linux 5.1 kernel series with the release of the first RC (Release Candidate) milestone for public testing.

F[he]S is prepping an “efus MX8X” module that runs Linux on a dual- or quad-core -A35 i.MX8X SoC with up to 2GB RAM and 64GB eMMC plus dual GbE, WiFi/BT, 4K video, and optional industrial temp support. F&S Elektronik Systeme, which recently unveiled an i.MX8M Mini based PicoCore MX8MM module, has now posted preliminary specs […[/he]]

The first Open Networking Summit was held in October 2011 at Stanford University and described as a premier event about OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)". Here we are seven and half years later and I'm constantly amazed at both how far we've come since then, and at how quickly a traditionally slow-moving industry like telecommunications is embracing change and innovation powered by open source.

PyTorch is a Python based scientific package which provides a replacement of NumPy ndarrays as Tensors which takes utmost advantage of the GPUs. Another positive point about PyTorch framework is the speed and flexibility it provides during computing. PyTorch is an efficient alternative of working with Tensors. PyTorch is mainly embraced by the Data Science community due to its capability to conveniently define neural networks. Let’s see this computational package in action in this lesson.

Seth Godin recently argued that more marketing data is not always better: In fact, it may hinder people from doing their best work. Let's examine how that applies to IT

Google's upcoming Android version, currently referred to only as Android Q, will arrive later this summer with a trove of privacy enhancements.

VXL’s compact “Itona IQL2-64” thin client runs Linux on a dual-core Celeron N3350 with 2GB RAM, and offers 4K-ready HDMI and mini-DP, 2x GbE, 3x USB 3.1, and support for Citrix, RDP, VMWare, and more. We don’t cover the thin client market exhaustively, but we find ourselves intrigued by low-cost, mini-PC-like thin clients that run […]

HTTP Basic Authentication in Nginx. You can restrict access to your website or some parts of it by implementing a username/password authentication. HTTP Basic authentication can also be combined with other access restriction methods, for example restricting access by geographical location. This can be implemented with the below steps 1. Install Apache Tools, 2. Set Up Authentication Credentials, 3. Configure Nginx. This guide demonstrates how to set up HTTP Basic Authentication using Nginx.

phpMyAdmin is one of the most popular and widely-used web-based database management tools on the market. It is a free and open-source PHP application that allows users to manage single or multiple SQL database servers, both locally or on a remote server using a web browser with easy to use graphical user interface. Today, we are going to show you how to install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04.

By default, SSH listens on port 22. Changing the default SSH port adds an extra layer of security to your server by reducing the risk of automated attacks.

Kontron’s “KBox B-201-CFL” is a compact, embedded box PC that runs Linux or Windows on 8th Gen Core CPUs with 2x GbE, SATA and M.2 SSDs, shock, vibration, and EMC tolerance, and a low noise level of under 34 dBA. Kontron is introducing a storage-oriented, Coffee Lake based mini-PC built around an unnamed Mini-ITX board. […]

Windows line endings are in a pain in the ... terminal. They muck up the operations of AWK, comm, diff, echo, grep, join, paste, read, rev, sed and tr.

WildFly, formerly known as JBoss is a cross-platform open source application runtime written in Java that helps you build amazing applications. WildFly is flexible, lightweight, and it is based on pluggable subsystems that can be added or removed as needed.

We all want to get the best performance out of our Linux games and Feral Interactive's open source GameMode tool continues to help towards this.