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Corruption, poverty, war, hunger, healthcare, education, safety. These are only a few of the problems faced by people in developing countries. Many of these problems are caused by exclusion, fear, intimidation, broken infrastructure, and lack of money, resources, access to information, and tools. These are hard problems to solve but, as Theodore Roosevelt said: "Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." read more

It's the year of GNU/Linux in your pocket! That's the motto developer Ashish Gulhati put for its new Noodle Pi project, which now has a Kickstarter page and promises to let you create your own, integrated Raspberry Pi pocket computer.

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What is and how does the exchange space work? The swap space or swap is what is known as virtual memory. The difference between real and virtual memory is that the latter uses space in the storage unit instead of a memory module. When the actual memory is exhausted, the system copies part of the content directly into this swap memory space in order to perform other tasks.

It's easy to get into the habit of googling anything you want to know about a command or operation in Linux, but I'd argue there's something even better: a living and breathing, complete reference, the man pages, which is short for manual pages. read more

?D-Link is a USB wireless card or commonly called dongle, used to connect a computer to the Internet through cellular networks. This tutorial will focus on one model DWP-157 and may be applied to other models of D-Link.

KeePass is a free open source password manager which helps you to manage your passwords securely using one master password.

When I first started making websites, I had files scattered all over my /var/www directory. As I matured and learned from professional designers, I figured out that it was smarter to build in some subdirectories, like css and fonts and images. Eventually I came to understand that standardizing my file structure made it easier for me to smoothly switch between projects without having to orient myself with a new layout. read more

It hasn't changed too much since the last time I tried it, meaning that apart from a few minor usability issues, it's still quite suitable for newbies on the whole.

The basic idea behind intent based networking is rather than having a pre-defined, rigid set of policies that define network operations, the network is more agile and is able to react to the 'intent' of the user or operation.

The Fedora Labs are a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. Some of the current Labs are the Design Suite, the Security Lab, and the Robotics Suite.... Continue Reading →

Arbor’s “EmETXe-i90M0” COM Express Basic Type 6 features 7th Gen Core EQ SoCs, -40 to 85°C support, triple displays, and an optional carrier. While most of the embedded boards we’ve covered with Intel’s 7th Generation “Kaby Lake” Core processors use the lower-power, dual-core U series, Arbor Technology’s EmETXe-i90M0 module instead taps the faster EQ series. […]

At any point in time while working on the command line, you are always inside a directory. There may be times when you'd want to list information about all files and subdirectories within a directory. This is where the dir command helps. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command as well as the features it provides.

Mozilla is participating in the Day of Action with a new podcast, video interviews with U.S. Senators, a special Firefox bulletin, and more ? As always, Mozilla is standing up...

Playing a Blu-ray on Linux isn’t straightforward. This method allows you to play your Blu-rays on your favorite operating system as simply as possible.

As cloud computing continues to evolve, it’s clear that the OpenStack platform is guaranteeing a strong open source foundation for the cloud ecosystem. At the recent OpenStack Days conference in Melbourne, OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce noted that although the early stages of cloud technology emphasized public platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google, the latest stage is much more focused on private clouds.

Fedora Project announced today the final release of the Fedora 26 Linux operating system for desktop, server, and cloud, and, if you're running Fedora 25, you might want to upgrade.

Red Hat relies on Amazon Web Services to enable developers to build cloud-native applications on its latest version of OpenShift Online.

TeX is a system for typesetting documents. It’s a powerful low-level markup and programming language that creates professional quality typeset text. The system was developed by Donald Knuth at Stanford University with the purpose of enabling anyone to generate high-quality books, and to develop a system that yields the same results whatever computer is used.

Canonical is announcing today, through software engineer Dimitri John Ledkov, the availability of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system as an "App" in the Windows 10 Store.