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Welcome to part 5 of HowToForge's shell scripting tutorial series. In this part, you will learn how to efficiently structure your scripts by creating functions. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to know how to create functions in the Linux Bash Shell, pass parameters to your functions and return some values from a function to your main code.

Having briefly discussed eight Linux file managers in my previous article, this article concentrates on my favorite GUI-based file manager. Konqueror is an amazingly versatile and powerful file management program that is also a very good web browser and FTP client. It is provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, and many other Linux distributions as a part of the KDE Desktop Environment. I find Konqueror an indispensable tool because it can do so many things very well. read more

The Meizu MX4 UbunMeizu MX4 Ubuntu is the first phone with the operating system from Canonical from Meizu. It's also the first high-end device to ship with this OS, so naturally there was a lot of interest in the community. The problem is that it's no longer available in the store. The phone has disappeared from the official store, and there is no information as of yet why that has happened.

A controversial program allowing the U.S. National Security Agency to collect millions of domestic telephone records expired Sunday night after the Senate failed to vote on a bill to extend the authority for the surveillance.

In a recent analysis of more than 30,000 websites, most had at least one serious vulnerability for 150 or more days last year. "These are the vulnerabilities that can get you into trouble," said Jeremiah Grossman, founder at WhiteHat Security, the company behind the report. "They can compromise some or all of your systems, get user data, or take over accounts."

How to upgrade your VPS cPanel/WHM version from command line.

You’ve heard that “when Wall Street sneezes, the world catches cold"*, and there are dozens of variations. But perhaps the line needs to be brought up to date. When a large technology platform company dozes off, companies that rely on it for innovation feel the chill – and the chill can be fatal.

KDE Applications 15.04.1 are now available in Kubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) via a handy PPA repository that is available right now.

Whenever I watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica, it breaks my heart when they avoid Cylon hacking by disconnecting all networks....... Anyone who has had their Wi-Fi go down knows just how much we depend on computer networks in our every day lives.

NagiosQL is a web based administration tool designed for Nagios, but might also work with forks. It helps you to easily build a complex configuration with all options, manage and use them.

LinuxGizmos.com and Linux.com would like your help in choosing the top 10 community backed single board computers (SBCs) that run Linux or Android. Read our detailed post describing this year’s survey, and then fill out our short 2-minute survey.

How to set-up Tomcat 8 with Nginx reverse proxy on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

Microsoft would love to get some of Android's mobile market share, and here's one way they're trying to do it in China.

It's June 1st, so it is time to get your hands on a new ISO build of the world's most customizable, lightweight and acclaimed GNU/Linux operating system, Arch Linux.

You may not have noticed, but people often become attached to their favorite technology. This could be a mobile phone, a programming language, or a text editor. When you work on someone else's project, you generally have to go with whatever the prevailing tools and languages are, but when it's your own project, you get to choose the toys. Documentation requires technology, too, but most people have less of a pre-set opinion about documentation tooling than they do about web frameworks and version control systems. So how is a project to choose? read more

Immediately after unveiling the Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series Ubuntu Edition laptop, the renown hardware manufacturer also published details about their smaller, 14" Dell Inspiron 14 3000 Series laptop powered by Ubuntu Linux.

Peppermint is excited to announce the launch of our latest operating system Peppermint Six. Lightweight and designed for speed, Peppermint Six delivers on that promise whether using software on your desktop, online, or using cloud based apps.

It’s important to note that neither of these are high dollar top-of-the-line laptops requiring deep pockets to buy, but affordable Inspiron 14 3000 Series laptops priced for the rest of us. The laptop announced two weeks ago comes with a 15? screen and sells for somewhere between $250 and $350, depending on the configuration. The laptop announced today, which defaults to slightly lower specs and comes with a smaller 14? screen, is priced at $219 and up.

A short while ago I was reviewing one of my Twitter lists and I happened upon a tweet that led me to NethServer, an open source project that featured a product the likes of which I had been looking for in recent months. read more