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If your work involves doing stuff through the command line in Linux, more likely than not, you'll be using the Bash shell. Did you know there's an environment associated with the processes that are executed through the shell? And, if you want, you can tweak this environment specifically for the task you're doing? Well, in this article we will discuss a command line tool - env - that not only lets you access the shell environment, but also allows you to make changes to it as an when required.

If you ever wondered how people share ascii form of Linux distribution logo in the terminal, now you know how they do it.

lshw (stands for Hardware Lister) is a small nifty tool that generates detailed reports about various hardware components on the machine.

In July the Atomic Working Group put out the first and second releases of Fedora 26 Atomic Host. This article shows you how to prepare an existing Fedora 25 Atomic Host system for Fedora 26 and do the upgrade. If... Continue Reading →

The three major open-source version control systems were all at risk from a flaw that could enable arbitrary code execution.

Axiomtek’s “MANO310” Mini-ITX SBC features the dual-core Celeron N3350 with triple display support and PCIe, mini-PCIe, SATA, and M.2 expansion. Like Axiomtek’s Intel Bay Trail based MANO500, but unlike most Intel Apollo Lake based mini-ITX boards we’ve covered, including DFI’s recent Ali17x, the new MANO310 is not a thin board. However, it targets embedded applications […]

In this week's top 5, we take a look at maps, robots, and more! This week's top articles 5. 6 hardware projects for upgrading your home When you make your house a little smarter, you’re going to want to use open hardware. Editor Alex Sanchez shares some projects that you can do yourself on your old house. read more

Ask a developer to name their most important tools and very often the reply will include Git. There’s a good reason for that: Git is one of the most widely used distributed version control systems. Git can be set up as a local repository, used on a LAN, or used via the official, global service. With Git you can do things like add access control to your code, display the contents of a Git repository (via the web), and manage multiple repositories.

PolyVection’s “VoltaStream Zero” is an audio streaming SBC that runs Linux on a 996MHz i.MX6 ULL, and offers a TI PCM5121 DAC, TOSLINK, USB, and WiFi. In 2013, Berlin based software developer Philip Voigt decided to build his own music streaming system. As detailed in this blog entry, Voight started with a Raspberry Pi, but […]

As seen earlier this week, the Fedora community holds elections in several groups. One group that elects seats this month is the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee (FAMSCo). The FAMSCo election started along with others this week. However, due to a technical... Continue Reading →

You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we should stop trying to make it possible for women to be engineers, it’s just not worth it.

Now that the last major public cloud provider has joined CNCF, expect Kubernetes to become the de facto container orchestration standard.

NextCloud is a free, open source and an alternative to another open source file hosting solution OwnCloud. NextCloud eliminates your need of using third party cloud hosting software like Dropbox for storing your documents. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and configure NextCloud on Debian 9.

Open Broadcaster Software project has announced a new release (OBS Studio 20.0) Capturing and Streaming Software for Linux. It Brought new connection features to lower the latency for Twitch and Mixer streaming services, a new modular User interface for customizing various elements on OBS Studio, and many more features.

I work daily with content management tools and support documentation writers whose preferred markup language is AsciiDoc. It has a simple syntax, but enough features to keep even a hardcore documentation nerd happy. AsciiDoc allows you to write documentation in a more natural way and mark it up cleanly for presentation on the web or as a PDF. This got me thinking, "Wouldn't it be handy to be able to maintain a website purely with AsciiDoc?" read more

Red Hat released the latest incremental update of its OpenShift container platform on August 9, providing users with new capabilities taken from the upstream open-source Kubernetes 1.6 release.

Vivaldi Technologies are releasing today the Vivaldi 1.11 web browser with several advanced accessibility features, a brand-new application icon, an advanced Reader Mode, and adjustable mouse gesture sensitivity.

When I started my first company, money was tight. We had a small office and a couple of computers, but not much else. I'd done all my cost planning without even thinking about business licenses and software costs. I know it was a mistake, but it can be easy to treat these sorts of things as an afterthought. read more

AWS is now a member of the open-source effort that is building Kubernetes, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Amazon will launch its own Kubernetes service.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton on Thursday announced the release and general availability of a new stable build of his Ubuntu-based RaspEX Linux operating system for Raspberry Pi 3 and 2 single-board computers.