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Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a versatile disk management system that can easily be used in Linux or similar operating systems. traditional partitions are created in fixed sizes, and resizing them is a tedious process. On the other hand, LVM creates and manages "logical" volumes off of physical hard disks, and provides administrators the flexibility […]Continue reading... The post How to use LVM in Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to create a Linux LVM partition How to build a network attached storage (NAS) server with Openfiler How to run fdisk in non-interactive batch mode How to create an encrypted disk partition on Linux How to change a XenServer’s local storage repository from LVM to EXT

DRM and the laws that back it up actively undermine our computer security. On this Day Against DRM, the first one since we learned about the US government’s efforts to sabotage the integrity of our cryptography and security technology, it's more important than ever to consider how the unintended consequences of copyright enforcement make us all less safe.

I do a lot of work on open source, but my most valuable contributions haven't been code. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. Here's some things I've learned along the way.

Evolve OS, a Linux distribution that is in the works and aims to marry both modern and traditional trends, has been announced.

The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 14.04 (nginx, BIND, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).

Code-sharing site GitHub has announced that Atom, its highly customizable code editor, has left beta and its full source code is now available to world+dog under the MIT open source license. Why another text editor? In an interview, GitHub developer Nathan Sobo told The Reg that he and the other developers wanted a powerful editor that was fully customizable using JavaScript, which Sobo argued is now the most popular scripting language in the world.

That reality became painfully clear to more than 40 million Target customers, whose credit card numbers got hijacked over the Christmas holidays. In an attempt to salvage the department-store chain’s reputation, the board yesterday removed CEO Gregg Steinhafel. Don’t be fooled, though. That was only a PR maneuver and, having come five months late, a bad one too.

Having gone through the pain of dual booting Ubuntu 14.04 with Windows 8.1, I thought it worthwhile to document the steps that I performed to get it all working. I hope this helps some other people who are struggling to get it to work.

In today's open source roundup: The oRouter provides a secure Internet connection via Tor. Plus: Does Android stink? And SuperTuxKart gets a graphics overhaul.

I know what you're thinking when you see the word "retro", but don't worry Another Star actually looks the part. It does a similar thing to You Have To Win The Game and gives you a slightly bendy screen to make it all more authentic and I love it.

A roundup of events in Fedora.

It is far more stable than its predecessors, and it continues to do basically everything I want it to do, so it's pretty good!

A project's choice of a license will have significant effects on its ability to sustain itself. Despite the rivers of ink that have flowed regarding the recent Heartbleed vulnerability, I believe the developer community has not addressed the right problem. Developers have fixated on a debate about one of open-source's most touted advantages: With many eyes looking at the code, is open source able to correct bugs faster than closed-source projects?

When AMD revealed an “ambidextrous” processor roadmap based on both x86 and ARM cores last Fall, it saved one surprise for today: they’ll be pin compatible!

I’ve found a few articles about using the Clojure programming language on the BeagleBone Black. However, all of them I’ve seen gloss over the installation steps. I got Clojure 1.6.0 running on my rev B BeagleBone Black (aka BBB from here on) and I’ve outlined the steps to do it in this post. If you haven’t done anything with your BBB yet, plug it in to a free USB port and open START.htm when it mounts as a drive.

You might be wondering why you might want to attach an Arduino to your Raspberry Pi. While there are lots of reasons, probably the most poignant is the extra six PWM-capable pins and another six analogue pins that a standard Arduino Uno offers.

Pinguy 14.04 RC is now available for testing. Pinguy OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution targeted at beginning Linux users. It features numerous user-friendly enhancements, out-of-the-box support for multimedia codecs and browser plugins, a heavily tweaked GNOME user interface with enhanced menus, panels and dockbars, and a careful selection of popular desktop applications for many common computing tasks.

Earlier this month Raytheon entered into a $15.8 million contract with the U.S. Navy to upgrade Raytheon’s control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), according to a May 2 Avionics Intelligence report. The overhaul, which involves a switch from Solaris to Linux, is designed to implement more modern controls to help ground-based personnel control UAVs.

One of Linux's advantages has always been that you rarely need to reboot it. Now, a new program, CloudLinux's KernelCare, tries to make rebooting totally unnecessary.

Today is the Day Against DRM, organized by the Free Software Foundation through their Defective by Design campaign against digital rights management (DRM), which they refer to instead with the more accurate moniker "digital restrictions management."