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Linux and open source has a friend in the "Great White North," and we don't mean one of the McKenzie brothers. As an MP, this friend works to bring awareness of open source to Ottawa as he serves the interests of the people of his district in Quebec.

In my previous article, Learn Perl with this temperature conversion script, I walked readers through a Perl script. When I first began using Scribus—a desktop publishing (DTP) application used to create PDFs for publishing in print or online—Perl was the scripting language I was most familiar with, and I even tried using it with Scribus. read more

There are many differences between open source operating system and closed source operating system. Here we have written few of them.

In our previous two Inkscape articles, we have covered the basics of using Inkscape, creating objects, and doing some basic manipulations and color changes. In this next installment, we are going to put all these new skills together, and create... Continue Reading →

aria2 is a Free, open source, lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

If you enabled the location tracking feature on your Android device, you don’t even need a dedicated app to generate GPX files for geocorrelating photos.

Containers and microservices have revolutionized application development and infrastructure management. They have also introduced new security challenges without solving the old ones. What are some of the new security challenges, and what can you do about them? read more

CentOS is a Gnu/Linux distribution and derived from RHEL a Red hat distro which is for enterprise. RHEL is a enterprise based while CentOS is totally a community based distribution. Its focus is to provide a free enterprise and community supported computing platform to the users. So how to install CentOS Linux. This tutorial will explain the installation of CentOS.

In 1937, Ronald Coase gave economics something new: a theory for why companies should exist. Oddly, this hadn't come up before.

On May 12, 1996, like a benevolent mad scientist, Brewster Kahle brought the Internet Archive to life. The World Wide Web was in its infancy and the Archive was there to capture its growing pains. Inspired by and emulating the Library at Alexandria, the Internet Archive began its mission to preserve and provide universal access to all knowledge. read more

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 includes new features and enhancements built around performance, security, and reliability. The release also introduces new capabilities around Linux containers and the Internet of Things.

Where do your witty Tweets end up? What about the rest of the content you create inside walled platforms like Facebook, Swarm, and Instagram*? Those posts and images are part of your identity yet they are "lost" in a sense when posted to platforms that aren't open. That's where the IndieWeb comes in; it's based around the idea that you have a personal domain and web space where you post everything first, then you can copy it to third party services, like Twitter. read more

Barr notes that the Linux config is designed for security: there's no remote root access; SSH only runs using key pairs, not passwords; and it's built with a very small number of "non-critical packages.

I sure have been kept busy this year! Here’s my take on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided now that it’s out for Linux.

In our amazing Linux world, we have not one, not two, but three, count 'em, three major-league enterprise Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, and SUSE Enterprise Linux. In this series, we will contrast and compare all three.

Install and Configure MRTG on Ubuntu 16.04 Server

Softpedia was informed today, November 3, 2016, by John Terrill from Red Hat about the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 operating system for existing and new customers.

The 48 x 46mm Orange Pi Zero runs Linux or Android on a quad-core Allwinner H2, and offers WiFi, 10/100, microSD, USB host and OTG, and a 26-pin RPi header. Shenzhen Xunlong has added a Raspberry Pi Zero competitor to its Orange Pi lineup of open source hacker boards.

Open source software is increasingly becoming available on the mainframe.  MongoDB is among the most popular of several programs supporting Linux for mainframe. Yes, the mainframe. Surprisingly to some, mainframe computing is still in heavy use in large organizations. Indeed, 92 of the top 100 banks still run critical data on the mainframe, as do many top retailers, airlines and government organizations.

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