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Suricata is an IDS / IPS capable of using Emerging Threats and VRT rule sets like Snort and Sagan. This tutorial shows the installation and configuration on an Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.

Automakers, insurers, and related partners see a big role for blockchain.

In this tutorial we’ll show you how to install the latest Eclipse IDE on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

In the previous article, ‘Raspberry PI: laying out the basics I’ we mentioned the Raspberry PI as a low-cost computing device that was initially created to help students improve their programming skills, as well as raise interest in computer science. Thus the need for a beginner friendly and widely used programming language arose. The Python programming language was the answer. This is because python is user-friendly, dynamic, portable and easy to learn.

Canonical and Debian Project released new Linux kernel security updates for their supported operating systems to address a critical vulnerability affecting the TCP implementation.

Ntopng is a free and open source software for monitoring network traffic that provides a web interface for real-time network monitoring. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Ntopng on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Robin Dreeke's The Code of Trust is a helpful guide to developing trustful relationships, and it's particularly useful to people working in open organizations (where trust is fundamental to any kind of work). As its title implies, Dreeke's book presents a "code" or set of principles people can follow when attempting to establish trust. I explained those in the first installment of this review. read more

Akademy 2018 is less than a week away. Apart from meeting up again with friends and colleagues, the KDE community has another reason to be joyful...

DocBook is a semantic markup language for writing structured documents using XML (or SGML). It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software but it can be used for any other sort of documentation. The language is fairly easy to learn; its strength derives from its flexibility.

Becoming a programmer from an underrepresented community like Cameroon is tough. Many Africans don't even know what computer programming is—and a lot who do think it's only for people from Western or Asian countries. read more

Within your Linux system, there’s a file called “sudoers” which permits or denies users from gaining super-user access and holds some special preferences for sudo.

Shrew'd thinking: Code Shrew helps peeps who want to, or need to, gobble a slice of Py To help aspiring programmers start writing code, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US have developed a free web-based platform called Code Shrew.…

One of the nicest things about Linux (and open source software in general) is the freedom to choose among different alternatives to address our needs. I've been using Linux for a long time, but I was never entirely happy with the desktop environment options available. Until last year, Xfce was the closest to what I consider a good compromise between features and performance. Then I found i3, an amazing piece of software that changed my life. read more

Based on the latest Qt 5.11 open-source application framework and the forthcoming KDE Frameworks 5.50 software suite, due for release on September 8, the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment promises yet another set of new feature and improvements.

This tutorial explains how to create MySQL or MariaDB databases through the command line.

After launching the Android 9.0 Pie operating system, Google released today the Android Security Patch for August 2018 to all supported devices, addressing numerous security vulnerabilities and other issues reported by users lately.

But through it all, what I want you to know is that these kids, getting their first computer will have a new world opened to them. A world without restrictions, A world you built for them.

In this systemd tutorial series, we have already talked about systemd timer units to some degree, but, before moving on to the sockets, let's look at three examples that illustrate how you can best leverage these units.

As of today, the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) operating system is now powered by the Linux 4.17 kernel, which provides users with better hardware support and some exciting new features.

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are extremely common terms used when talking about producing software. But what do they really mean? In this article, I'll explain the meaning and significance behind these and related terms, such as continuous testing and continuous deployment. read more