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Two weeks after reaching general availability, WordPress 4.9 gets its first update fixing bugs and boosting security. The open-source WordPress blogging and content management system (CMS) 4.9.1 update was released on Nov. 29, providing users with security and bug fix improvements.

Linux is known for its high standards of security & there are very low amount of viruses that has been known to infect a Linux system. But in the recent times as technology is...

2DayGeek:Translate Shell (formerly known as Google Translate CLI) is allows user to access Google Translate right from terminal.

We’ll show you How to kill a process in Linux . One of the major advantages of Linux is the ability terminate a process without having to reboot your server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to kill a process in Linux using the kill, pkill and killall commands.

A thief can’t go and cross borders to steal some very sensitive information but a bad hacker can. The United States has indicted three Chinese hackers for hacking three corporations’ very sensitive information.

Even though Nagios Exchange has thousands of available plugins to freely download, sometimes the status needed to be checked is very specific for your scenario.

Danese Cooper is one of open source's strongest advocates, credited with advancing the open sourcing of technology at major companies including Sun Microsystems, Intel, and now PayPal, where she has served as head of open source since 2014. read more

Ubuntu recently made the jump to GNOME, but the default still looks a lot like Unity. If you’d like the vanilla GNOME experience, follow this guide.

Lots of entrepreneurs worry they won't have access to some of the essential software packages if they make a move to Linux. However, as you will discover throughout this post, there are plenty of similar tools that will cover all the bases.

OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of LDAP or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol . OpenLDAP allows to store store and organize user related data centrally. OpenLDAP functions like a relational database & can store...

There are great tools on the Linux desktop for taking screen captures, such as KSnapshot and Shutter. Even the simple utility that comes with the GNOME desktop does a pretty good job of capturing screens. But what if you rarely need to take screen captures? Or you use a Linux distribution without a built-in capture tool, or an older computer with limited resources? read more

The following article provides some useful tips on how to find all files within any specific directory or entire file-system containing any specific word or string.

Although you hear a lot about containers and Kubernetes these days, there's a lot of mystery around them. In her Lightning Talk at All Things Open 2017, "From 0 to Kubernetes," Amy Chen clears up the confusion. read more

This post details process for changing default runlevel in CentosRHEL 6 & 7 . But before we do that, we must discuss following… What is a runlevel ? Runlevel...

Canonical's sudden decision of killing its Unity user interface affected many Ubuntu users, and it looks like someone now tries to bring it back from the dead as an unofficial spin.

Vivaldi Technologies have just kicked off the development of their upcoming Vivaldi 1.14 web browser a nd were more than happy to inform Softpedia today on the availability of the first snapshot, which ships with the long-anticipated Sync functionality.

Every gaming fan out there knows what STEAM is , for those of you who don’t know what STEAM is. Steam is an online store for games , it just like amazon for games. It contains hundreds & thousands of games.

Malware and viruses on a Linux system? It happens. Don't operate under the illusion that using Linux means you don't have to worry about those things.

Eurotech’s “CPU-162-23” COM Express Type 7 module runs Linux on Xeon and Pentium D-1500 CPUs with 2x 10GbE, up to x32 PCIe, and up to 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM. The CPU-162-23 follows other Eurotech COM Express boards such as the Intel Skylake based CPU-162-22 Type 6 board, and is directly descended from last December’s CPU-161-18, a COM Express Type 6 Compact module that similarly ran on Intel’s 5th Gen Broadwell based Xeon and Pentium D-1500.

Technical advancements have fueled the growth of speech interfaces through the availability of machine learning tools, resulting in more Internet-connected products that can listen and respond to us than ever before. At Mozilla we’re excited about the potential of speech recognition. We believe this technology can and will enable a wave of innovative products and services, and that it should be available to everyone.