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A Neutron setup is composed of numerous interfaces,such as br-int,br-tun,br-ex, eth1/2/3. For beginners it's usually hard to understand what route packets will take through these devices and hosts. So let's take a closer look

The Ubuntu Touch RTM version of the new operating system from Canonical has been released, so now it's time to get a closer look and see what the fuss is all about.

The Debian developers decided a while ago that they were going to adopt Xfce instead of GNOME as the default desktop, but that doesn't mean that users won't be able to find all the GNOME packages in the repositories.

Keeping, maintaining and analyzing logs (i.e., accounts of events that have happened during a certain period of time or are currently happening) are among the most basic and essential tasks of a Linux system administrator. In case of user management, examining user logon and logout logs (both failed and successful) can alert us about any […]Continue reading... The post How to monitor user login history on CentOS with utmpdump appeared first on Xmodulo. No related FAQ.

There are some scenarios where unix admin wants to run unix commands and insert the output of unix command in vi editor without leaving it.

Netflix is looking to expand its business, and one of the ways to do that is to look at what other platforms it can support. Ubuntu is the most used Linux distribution, so it stands to reason that they might be interested to have their service working on it.

This article shows how to use PlayOnLinux to set up and play classic DOS games. Whilst dosbox works very well using PlayOnLinux makes it possible to have one interface to load all of your DOS and Windows games.

That Netflix is coming to desktop Linux soon is great news. Considering the OS only holds about 1.6 percent of overall desktop marketshare, it's an important moment for those who use Linux in their home lives that Netflix's engineers are even exploring the idea. It's not like they had to, right?

uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project to reduce systemd to a base initd, process supervisor and transactional dependency system, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism. Basically, it’s systemd with the superfluous stuff cut out, a (relatively) coherent idea of what it wants to be, support for non-glibc platforms and an approach that aims to minimize complicated design.

From its next release onwards, Debian users will be forced to use just one init system - systemd. This much is clear from resolutions of the project's Technical Committee.

LXer Feature: 21-Sept-2014

A few of the big stories to hit the newswire this week for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

Every week, we tally the numbers and listen to the buzz to bring you the best of last week's open source news and stories on Opensource.com. Here are last week's top five.

More driver improvements on the ever changing driver. Mesa 10.3 just came out and the results are in! Here's a look at how the open source driver for AMD GPU's is performing in games.

It has been a long time coming for Linux professionals and users to have an event in Florida. The last major event was in 2009 at the Florida Linux Show that promoted open and free software.

If you’re sitting in the itty-bitty overlapping sliver on the Venn diagram of “People who use Ubuntu” and “People who can’t figure out how to use user agent spoofing and other trickery to make Netflix work on Ubuntu” — good news! Netflix is likely (finally) coming to Ubuntu soon.

Mention the letters "DRM" and you're likely to immediately evoke two opposing and emotional reactions.

The popular construction and management simulation series “Tropico” continues with the part V on Steam.

Please take a few moments to cast your votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards.

Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are enumerated as eth[0123...], but these names do not necessarily correspond to actual hardware slots, PCI geography, USB port number, etc. This introduces a unpredictable naming problem (e.g., due to undeterministic device probing behavior) which can cause various network misconfigurations.

Mantis Vision and Flextronics unveiled an Android-based “Aquila” tablet based on Mantis’ MV4D 3D engine that uses a 3D sensing system to recreate 3D scenes.