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Grive2, a command line Google Drive client for Linux which supports partial sync, is quite popular among Linux users, but many probably don't know that the tool includes a built-in solution for automatic synchronization of Google Drive files with a local folder.

What Satoshi Nakamoto started as Bitcoin a decade ago has found a lot of followers and turned into a movement for decentralization. For some, blockchain technology is a religion that will have the same impact on humanity as the Internet has had. For others, it is hype and technology suitable only for Ponzi schemes. While blockchain is still evolving and trying to find its place, one thing is for sure: It is a disruptive technology that will fundamentally transform certain industries. read more

Security is a major concern when designing web apps. And I am not talking about DDOS protection, using a strong password or 2 step verification. I am talking about the biggest threat to a web app. It is known as CSRF short for Cross Site Resource Forgery.

There was a time when Windows and Linux were fierce enemies, and fans of the open-source world simply hated Microsoft’s operating system mostly as a result of the company’s attitude towards OSS.

Mu is a Python editor for beginning programmers, designed to make the learning experience more pleasant. It gives students the ability to experience success early on, which is important anytime you're learning something new. If you have ever tried to teach young people how to program, you will immediately grasp the importance of Mu. Most programming tools are written by developers for developers and aren't well-suited for beginning programmers, regardless of their age. Mu, however, was written by a teacher for students. read more

There are plenty of games released for the Linux platform this year. From indie hits to glorious RPGs, here are our choices of the best Linux games so far.

The OpenWrt project released version 18.06 of its router-oriented Linux distro, representing the first stable release since the reunification with the forked LEDE project. OpenWrt 18.06 moves to Linux 4.9.111 for some targets and adds Spectre and Meltdown fixes. The OpenWrt project released a stable version 18.06 of the venerable OpenWrt Linux distribution for networking […]

Docker CE Stable is moving to a twice a year release cadence, staring with the Docker 18.09 release which is set to debut in September. Docker CE was first announced by Docker in March 2017 as part of a new nomenclature and product approach. Docker had been releasing the CE version of its Dockerproduct on a quarterly basis.

The recent rise in popularity of container technology within the data center is a direct result of its portability and ability to isolate working environments, thus limiting its impact and overall footprint to the underlying computing system. To understand the technology completely, you first need to understand the many pieces that make it all possible. With that, may we introduce Linux Journal's Container issue.

Feral Interactive announced today in their newsletter that the Linux port Total War: WARHAMMER II will be available in 'early Autumn'.

Open source is now so pervasive at organizations of all sizes that there is outsized demand for workers skilled with open platforms and tools. This has created profound changes in the job market, and across industries the skills gap is widening, making it ever more difficult to hire people with much needed job skills.

News briefs for August 1, 2018.

In this tutorial we'll walk you through the steps necessary to download and install Go on a Debian 9 system.

If you have a lot of images on your site, you might be vulnerable to other sites stealing your bandwidth and basically using your site as a CDN! Hotlinking is when another site uses an <img> tag and places your site in the “src” tag, thereby pulling the image directly from your server. There’s no attribution unless the hotlinking site deliberately chooses to do so. In this article, I’ll show you how to use the hotlink protection tool in cPanel.

Learn how to "Deploying Machine Learning workloads in Kubernetes clusters that support GPUs" from the folks at Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu.

Commands for reliably encrypting files on Linux systems are easy to come by and quite versatile. One of the most popular is gpg. Here's how to use it.

ImpressPages is a free, open source and user-friendly, MVC-based, Content Management System with a built-in content editor that can be used to create a personal or business website. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install ImpressPages on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Earlier this month, Opera 56 entered development, and while until now there were only bugfix updates released for the upcoming web browser, Opera Software today published a more in-depth look at some of its new features and enhancements.

Standard Notes is a simple, encrypted notes app that aims to make dealing with your notes the easiest thing you'll do all day. When you sign up for a free sync account, your notes are automatically encrypted and seamlessly synced with all your devices.

Pagespeed or mod_pagespeed is an open source module used in apache & is used to speed up the websites. It applies various layers of filters to all the associated assets like pages, stylesheets, images etc, which than helps in optimizing the assets & this leads to boost in speed of the website.