Showing all newswire headlines

Many great tools have come and gone over the years. But none of them have made an impact as large as the one that Ansible has made in the IT automation space. From servers to networks to public cloud providers to serverless to Kubernetes… Ansible has a lot of use cases. "The Ansible Automation for Sysadmins Guide" was created to help celebrate Ansible's 7th birthday this year! read more

In this article we explore using the kernel's random number generator and the systems entropy pool to generate random passwords on the command line. We list 5 different methods and include one utility that we found useful.

LinuxSecurity debunks some common myths and misconceptions regarding open source and Linux by answering a few Linux-related frequently asked questions.

How to Install cPanel v76 on Google Cloud with CentOS 7 and set up Email and Security using Web Host Manager (WHM).

CentOS, as well as all other Linux distributions, is a multi-user operating system. Each user can have different permission level and specific settings for various command line and GUI application. Knowing how to add and remove users is one of the most essential skills each Linux user should know.

DNS ( Domain Name System ) is the backbone of the internet and without dns, almost all the services will not work. If you are a system admin you should face the situation to troubleshoot dns issues in your daily work. There are different tools available nowadays and here I am discussing some of the common tools.

Today we will see how to install Dropbox to be able to use it without any type of problem in dual boot systems. There are many users who have a dual boot with windows and one of the many existing Linux distros. To be able to access Dropbox content in both Linux and windows without having to duplicate the content, we have to install Dropbox in the following way:

Go is a Google Developed modern open-source programming language. Go also known as Golang and offers a robust set of libraries. Popular applications like Docker, Graphana etc. are written in Golang

The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository provides additional software packages that are not included in the standard Red Hat and CentOS repositories.

On DL109 - Gaming with Liam @thenaughtysquid. We discuss @ubuntu, Plasma, @OBSproject, LinuxTracker woes. @AMD news on the @Radeon VII and our regular Tips, Tricks and Spotlight picks!

Renesas unveiled an “RZ-G2” family of up to octa-core Cortex-A53 and -A57 SoCs with an updated RZ/G Linux Platform with the 64-bit Arm CIP SLTS kernel for 10 year+ availability. There are also two 96Boards dev boards. Since Renesas Electronics Corp. announced its dual-core Cortex -A7 and -A15 based RZ/G family of SoCs back in […]

CS-Cart is an e-commerce platform that enables sellers to set up their virtual shopping center. It is currently maintained by the Simtech conglomerate. At the time of writing, CS-Cart does not offer a free version anymore – however, a free 30-day trial is available for their software. In this article, we will show you how to install CS-Cart on Ubuntu 18.04.

PostgreSQL or Postgres is a popular relational database management system. PostgreSQL is also an opensource and general-purpose database system which provides an implementation of SQL querying language.

Copying down is easy in a spreadsheet, but it's also possible on the command line. In this post, copying down is used to repair a messy table.

Android Studio is a full-featured cross-platform IDE that helps you build applications on every type of Android device. It is based on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA and includes everything you need for Android development.

Even when removing Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace from the equation, sales of OCP-certified hardware is expected to reach $10.7 billion by 2022.

Arrow unveiled a 96Boards CE Extended “Avenger96” SBC with a compute module that runs Linux on ST’s Cortex -A7/M4 hybrid STM32MP1 SoC. The SBC has 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, GbE, WiFi/BT, and 3x USB ports. Arrow and manufacturing partner DH Electronics are collaborating on a sandwich-style 96Boards CE Extended SBC with a computer-on-module based on […]

What makes the cloud really important to users, is when it’s employed as a backup. Why is that such a game changer? By backing up to the cloud, you have access to those files, from any computer you have associated with your cloud account. And because Linux powers the cloud, many services offer Linux tools. Let’s take a look at five such tools. I will focus on GUI tools, because they offer a much lower barrier to entry to many of the CLI tools.

New version of the open-source blogging and content management system improves performance and warns administrators about outdated versions of PHP.

z.lua is a new tool that helps navigate your filesystem faster from the command line, tracking your most used directories based on "frecency" (how recently and how frequently a directory was accessed).

While there are other similar tool out there, the developer claims z.lua is a lot faster. For example, z.lua is supposed to be 10 times faster than fasd and autojump, and 3 times faster than z.sh.