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Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu and RedHat-based systems such as CentOS are mostly similar in their design. However, there are a few differences here and there. For example, RedHat-based systems use .rpm files for representing software packages, while Debian-based systems use .deb files. These file types differ from one another in their design, and cannot be installed outside of their respective type of operating systems (e.g. installing a .deb file on CentOS, or installing a .rpm file on Ubuntu). However, there are ways to port these packages to other types of systems.

Setting up and configuring a mail server is a challenging process, mostly because there are so many different components involved and each component has to be configured to work with the other. In this series, we will show you how to set up a complete virtual user mail system on a Ubuntu server using the following packages: Postfix, Dovecot, Postfixadmin and Rspamd

o you’ve made the switch to Linux. Or you’re thinking of making the switch. But you have questions that might be stopping you from fully diving in. One of the biggest concerns most new users have is, “What software is available and how do I install it?”

Configuration management is a very important aspect of both server administration and DevOps. The "infrastructure as code" methodology makes it easy to deploy servers in various configurations and dynamically scale an organization's resources to keep up with user demands. But less attention is paid to individual administrators who want to automate the setup of their own laptops and desktops (workstations). read more

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2018 issue.

While it seems unlikely that renewed antitrust action will be invoked against Microsoft, there's ample evidence that Microsoft continues to feed patent trolls while offering 'protection' from them (e.g. in the form of "Azure IP Advantage," which echoes the Microsoft/Novell strategy for collecting what they called "patent royalties" one decade ago)

sudo stands for superuser do. It allows authorized users to execute command as an another user. Another user can be regular user or superuser. However, most of the time we use it to execute command with elevated privileges

While most Android smartphones out there haven't yet received the Android 8 Oreo software update, Google is reportedly already working on the next major release, Android 9, whose codename will start with the letter P.

Netrunner Rolling 2018.01 is the latest release of Netrunner Linux Distributions, it first snapshot in 2018 with the latest update and some new features. As KDE-Focused Linux Distribution this relase ships with the KDE Plasma 5.11.5 as default desktop environment, including KDE Frameworks 5.41 software suites, KDE Applications 17.12, and Qt 5.10.

By default, Android Phone support is not enabled on Arch Linux. In this article, I will show you how to enable Android Phone support on Arch Linux and connect your Android Phone for File Transfer on Arch Linux. Let’s get started.

This week's category is domain registrars—see who the favorite is, and if you didn't get a chance to vote, add your choice in the comments. Strangely only three companies were submitted in the nomination round for this category (so most of the votes went to "other". Here's the breakdown:

Intel debuted a Stratix 10 TX FPGA with 58Gbps transceivers while the industry kicked the tires of major new SoCs like the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 and anticipated Arm’s Project Trillium AI chips and Intel’s 10nm Cannon Lake and Ice Lake.

If you've ever wanted to run the free and open-source LineageOS operating system for smartphones and tablet computers on your tiny Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer (SBC), there's now an unofficial build available for public testing.

Tripwire is a powerful IDS that protects your system against unwanted changes. You can use it to monitor your system files, including website files, so when there is an unwanted file change, Tripwire will check your system and if set up correctly, can alert you on email.

Opera Software has recently promoted the Opera 53 web browser to the developer channel, giving users a first look at the new features and improvements that will be implemented in this upcoming release.

The VIA Smart Recognition Platform is a facial and object recognition board that runs Android 7.1.1 or Linux on a Snapdragon 820 by way of VIA’s SOM-9X20 module. VIA Technologies has re-spun its Snapdragon 820 based SOM-9X20 module and SOM-DB2 evaluation board as a VIA Smart Recognition Platform.

The key challenge for developing speech recognition software, whether it’s used in a computer or another device, is that human speech is extremely complex. The software has to cope with varied speech patterns, and individuals’ accents. And speech is a dynamic process without clearly distinguished parts. Fortunately, technical advancements have meant it’s easier to create speech recognition tools.

Microsoft announced that it has partnered with Canonical, the maker of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, on delivering enhanced virtual machine experiences on the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) release.

The popular enterprise apps dev framework Now has a new name - and a new direction. In the world of enterprise applications, few (if any) frameworks have ever been as widely adopted and deployed as Java and specifically enterprise flavors of Java.

This week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Embedded World in Nuremberg are primarily designed to showcase smartphones and embedded systems, respectively. Yet, increasingly the shows are focused on the processors that drive them.