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In the LFCS exam you may be asked to create or modify files. One simple way is to use the program ‘Nano’. Other programs can be used, but it is up to you which program you use. Remember that the point of the exam is not to use any specific tool, but to get the task completed that you are given.

From the desk of Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 27 Beta, the next big step towards our exciting Fedora 27 release in November. Visit Get Fedora to download the... Continue Reading →

Do you have five, 10, or even 15-year-old consumer electronic devices that still work but are not connected to the internet and don't get software updates from the manufacturer? Should you just swap those tired, old devices for new Internet of Things-enabled versions—even though they still work? Of course not! The rise of the open source hardware movement and the availability of free and open source software allows us to bring new life into our retro electronic devices. read more

Google wants Android devices to survive four OS upgrades, even if LTS releases make Linus a bit grumpy Long-term-support (LTS) editions of the Linux Kernel will henceforth be supported for six years, up from the current two.…

The Open Organization Ambassadors recently released the Open Organization Maturity Model, a framework for organizations can use to "level up" on five characteristics: transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration, and community. Inspired by the effort that my fellow ambassadors and I invested to produce that valuable tool, I recently applied the maturity model concept to README development. read more

Zorin OS 12.2 has been released and announced by The ZorinOS team, it the second maintenance update to the Zorin OS 12 series, and also the most advances Zorin OS version ever released. This release featuring the latest Zorin Desktop environment, based on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and powered by the Linux Kernel 4.10 series

Microsoft has used two different starting points on the calendar for calculating dates in different versions of their Excel spreadsheet program. Really. One version used 1 January 1900 for serial day numbering, the other used 1 January 1904. Of course, up to date versions of Microsoft Excel can handle this difference in older files easily, just like up to date versions of Microsoft Windows are completely problem-free and totally, absolutely secure.

A multi-year effort to update the internet's overall security has been put on hold just days before it was due to be introduced, over fears that as many as 60 million people could be forced offline.

If you ask a group of people about the qualities of good documentation, you'll probably get many different answers, but accuracy and ease of reading should be high on everyone's list. Chances are your docs are 100% accurate and super-easy to read the day you publish them, but they inevitably get less so as the product they describe evolves. That's right, even the docs get old. If that's happening with your content, it's time to do a documentation audit. What is a documentation audit? Auditing your docs typically involves: read more

What with all the furor around containers and orchestrators, it can be easy to lose sight of some of their highly useful features. The portability and extensible nature of containers is a modern convenience to be cherished, but from my professional perspective it's sometimes all too easy to get carried away and pay less attention to security.

Axiomtek’s rugged “ICO300-83B” is a fanless DIN-rail PC with a Celeron N3350 SoC, 2x mini-PCIe, 4x USB 3.0, and up to 4x isolated RS-232/422/485 ports. Axiomtek’s Intel Apollo Lake based ICO300-83B computer can be considered a more advanced version of its entry-level, Bay Trail Atom based ICO-300-MI, but it has more in common with the more advanced, Braswell based ICO310 design.

Long-delayed update adds support for modern web tech OpenWorld Java EE 8 arrived last month rather later than expected – but it landed in time for Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne, which are taking place this week in San Francisco, California.

CNCF, the Linux Foundation project behind Kubernetes and other container-related open source applications, has been busy signing up platinum members lately. In the last few months they've taken on a spate of new top-tier members, including the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon Web Services, and now SAP.

LTS Linux will now have a six-year life, rather than a two-year life, which is just what Android developers want and what Android users need.

TimeShift is a system restore tool for Linux. It provides functionality that is quite similar to the System Restore feature in Windows or the Time Machine tool in MacOS. TimeShift protects your system by making incremental snapshots of the file system manually or at regular automated intervals.

This is an unexpected boon for developers. Unexpected because although Yahoo has a history of releasing some of its code as open source, most famously the big data project Hadoop, it wasn't known if the practice would continue under Verizon's ownership. A boon, because Vespa is loaded with potential that reaches far beyond search.

Linux server administrators will want to patch their systems as soon as possible.

Sometimes when I'm traveling, I have trouble sending email from my devices that typically connect to my ISP at home via hardwire or WiFi. This is because some ISPs do not like outbound email to leave their network unless it is routed through their own email servers. But you need to have an account with the ISP in order to send outbound email through their servers. read more

Android 8 or also known as “Oreo” or Android O was released on 21st August. There are several tweaks in the new release that you would love to enjoy in your Oneplus 2. Below is the video that shows what’s new in Android O.