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I’m excited to announce that Chris Lin is joining us today as our new Vice President of IT. Chris will work closely with me to scale our impact and optimize...

your service is still not much better than running the server directly. Let's jazz it up a bit by having it send out emails to the players, alerting them when the server becomes available and warning them when it is about to be turned off...

If you are new to Linux system administration, you should be aware of tools that help you in user management. One such utility is w, which shows info about users that are currently logged in to a system, including what they are doing. In this article, we will discuss this tool using some easy to understand examples.

Lanner’s Linux-friendly V3 Series of Apollo Lake based in-vehicle computers includes V3G and V3S models with -40 to 70°C and MIL-STD-810G ruggedization. The V3S adds a third mini-PCIe slot and 4x PoE-ready GbE ports for IP cameras. Lanner has launched the first two models in a rugged new V3 Series of “vehicle gateway controllers.” The […]

Several years ago, Pat David, an engineer, a photographer, and a member of the GIMP team, realized there was no central place for people interested in photography to learn about free and open source creative software and methods. He was also unhappy to see that most of the open source photography tutorials didn't measure up to his quality standards.

I recently asked our writer community to share with us what they're reading. These folks come from all different walks of life and roles in tech. What they have in common is that they are living and breathing Linux and open source every day. Drink in this fantastic list. Many of them are free and available to download.

As I mentioned in my original article on Firefox extensions, the web browser has become a critical component of the computing experience for many users. Modern browsers have evolved into powerful and extensible platforms, and extensions can add or modify their functionality. Extensions for Firefox are built using the WebExtensions API, a cross-browser development system.

Crowdfunding is a big discussion topic in the world of people who create things. In particular, subscription-based patronage models have been growing in popularity over the last few years. And it's not just for artists and other creatives. Open source development has started adopting this model with growing success.

The objective of this tutorial is to install Java on Ubuntu. We will be installing the latest version of Oracle Java SE Development Kit (JDK) on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux. This will be performed in three ways: Installing Java using the Ubuntu Open JDK binaries, installing Java via PPA and installing Java using the official Oracle Java binaries.

What is Modularity? A classic conundrum that all open-source distributions have faced is the “too fast/too slow” problem. Users install an operating system in order to enable the use of their applications. A comprehensive distribution like Fedora has an advantage and a disadvantage to the large amount of available software.

Windows operating system uses NTFS for partitioning large Hard disk drives, whether they are local hdd or an external one. They can be easily used among systems but when these NTFS partitioned drives...

What do you get when you combine a global financial services, media, and data company that employs 5,000 software developers headed by a founder who is heavily into philanthropy? If you're Bloomberg, you get a series of company-sponsored hackathons where employees, community members, students, and others come together over a weekend to hack on open source tools, including Python, Perl, and Eclipse. read more

Multiple previously unconnected Chinese threat actors behind numerous cyber campaigns aimed at organizations in the United States, Japan, and other countries over the past several years are actually operating under the control of the country's state intelligence apparatus.

Less than a week away from Google I/O (where this will probably be officially announced), a new settings option for Linux apps has appeared on the Chrome OS Dev channel. It’s titled “Linux (Beta),” with the description, “Run Linux tools, editors, and IDEs on your Chromebook.” From there, you can fully enable the Linux container.

FocusWriter is a cross-platform tool available to be easily installed on multiple GNU/Linux distributions, as well as Windows and Mac OS.

Apache Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. It is one of the most widely adopted applications and web servers in the world today. Tomcat is simple to use and has a robust ecosystem of add-ons. This tutorial demonstrates how to install Tomcat 8.5 on Ubuntu 18.04.

Finjan's warpath of destruction shows no signs of stopping; it's now suing Check Point, a relatively large company that occasionally exposes issues in Microsoft's software

Welcome back to our Raspberry Series. This time we are going to touch on how to acquire a Raspberry, set up the raspberry with all the required peripherals and get the essential installations, especially a perfect Linux distro.

We will show you How to Fix the Leverage Browser Caching Warning in WordPress, on a Linux based virtual private server. Leverage Browser Caching is a warning which you may encounter if you run a speed or performance test for your website using some of the tools which are available online.

Bill's Microsoft and Nathan's Intellectual Ventures (with 95,000 'IP' 'assets') are still brewing a lot of legal trouble/Armageddon, distributing plenty of patents to various patent trolls which themselves file lawsuits through shells and proxies