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Linux offers versatile user/group structures. In this article, we will explore how to create and add users to a group. Users In Linux, every process has an associated user, which tells you who initiated the process. Every file/directory is owned by a user and a group. Users who are associated with a file/directory can tell which user has access to that file and what they can do with it. A user who is associated with a process determines what that process can access. read more

RHEL's latest helps Red Hat support its cloud aspirations while keeping its feet firmly planted in Linux and open source.

If you have done Hard Disk partitions then you must have come through GPT vs MBR.

We all want our passwords to be safe and secure. To do that, many people turn to password management applications like KeePassX or Bitwarden. If you spend a lot of time in a terminal window and are looking for a simpler solution, you'll want to check out one of the many password managers for the Linux command line. They're quick, easy to use, and secure. Let's take a look at three of them. read more

Timeshift is excellent for creating and scheduling regular backups of your Linux desktop system. Learn how to use Timeshift on Linux Mint.

Raspberry Digital Signage is an operating system designed for digital signage installations on the Raspberry Pi: it displays a full-screen browser view restricted to a specified (web) resource.

Raspberry Digital Signage 11 has been released today, which comes with the latest raspberrypi-bootloader, so that it is compatible with the new Raspberry Pi 3 b+ board line.

Purism, the company that offers high-quality security, privacy, and freedom-focused computers and software, is releasing the initial documentation for its upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone platform.

Markdown is an easy to read and easy to learn markup language. Unlike HTML, XML or other markup languages, where the insane number of obscure tags make it look unapproachable, markdown is highly readable even as a raw text file.

CI or Continuous integration is being adopted at very high pace to streamline the buid time & testing. To implement the CI, there are many tools available but the jenkins lead the pack. We have already learned to install Jenkins on CentOS server.

Everything can be possible in Linux. I have realized many times this, even today also we are going to discuss about such kind of topics. Say for example, you want to allow a developer’s to run chown or chmod command in particular directory (Not only this commands), how to do that?

Mozilla developers have decided to block requests for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) subresources inside web pages. A bug report and Intent to implement notice suggest the change will land in Firefox 61. The browser’s currently at version 59, with 61 due in May 2018.

Extensions add immense flexibility to the GNOME 3 desktop environment. They give users the advantage of customizing their desktop while adding ease and efficiency to their workflow. The Fedora Magazine has already covered some great desktop extensions such as EasyScreenCast, gTile, and OpenWeather. This article continues that coverage by focusing on extensions tailored for developers.

It would be difficult for anyone who follows Linux and open source to have missed the 20th birthday of open source in early February. This was a dual celebration, actually, noting the passing of 20 years since the term "open source" was first coined and since the formation of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the organization that decides whether software licenses qualify to wear that label.

Currently, there are more than 300 different Linux operating system distributions available. Each distro serves a slightly different purpose with slightly different bundles of programs for different communities of users. Even though there are hundreds of different versions of Linux, it hasn't been very easy for individual customizers to share them with the community. DistroTweaks, a process that allows users to customize and share Linux, is a better option than what's come before. read more

Video: Ubuntu 18.04 Beta has been released ahead of the final release on 26th April. Here's a video showcasing the new features of Ubuntu 18.04.

Hyperledger Fabric is an open source blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. It is a platform for distributed ledger solutions. This article aims to simplify Fabric operations by use of Kubernetes. This tool is ideal for the following reasons: read more

Rocket.Chat is a complete team communication platform, a self-hosted Slack alternative. It is built with Meteor and provides various features including helpdesk chat, video conferencing, file sharing, voice messages, API, and more. In this tutorial, we will show you how to deploy Rocket.Chat on a CentOS 7 server and configure Nginx as a SSL reverse proxy.

A new PPA repository that allows easily installing and updating Oracle Java 10 (JDK) in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Oracle provides Java (JDK) 10 for 64bit only. As a result, using the Oracle Java 10 package in our PPA will only work on 64bit, so don't try to install it on 32bit or ARM because it won't work!

It's a common misconception that contributing to open source is difficult. You might think, "Sometimes I can't even understand my own code; how am I supposed to understand someone else's?" Relax. Until last year, I thought the same thing. Reading and understanding someone else's code and writing your own on top of that can be a daunting task, but with the right resources, it isn't as hard as you might think. The first step is to choose a project. This decision can be instrumental in turning a newbie programmer into a seasoned open sourcer. read more

Learn how to create a LEMP stack, where LEMP is synonym for combination of Linux, Nginx, Mariadb/mysql & php (php-fpm) is known as LEMP.