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Today NVIDIA released the 440.26 Beta driver for Linux with a number of new features, enhancements and a few interesting bug fixes.

PHP is one of the most used server-side programming languages. Many popular CMS and frameworks such as WordPress, Magento, and Laravel are built in PHP. In this guide, we will discuss how to install PHP 7.2, 7.3, or 7.4 on CentOS 8.

You may think everyone knows what big data is by now, but misconceptions remain. Get expert advice for discussing big data in plain terms with colleagues, customers, or any audience

It may never be as big as Windows, but Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth still sees a bright future for the Linux desktop.

This is the latest in a series of articles on Cockpit, the easy-to-use, integrated, glanceable, and open web-based interface for your servers. In the first article, we introduced the web user interface. The second and third articles focused on how to perform storage and network tasks respectively. This article demonstrates how to create and modify local accounts.

Kali Linux is a Linux distro for security testing. It includes software from Aircrack to John the Ripper. Here's how you can install Kali Linux on your PC.

Oracle released today VirtualBox 6.0.14, a new maintenance update in the latest VirtualBox 6.0 series of their open-source and cross-platform virtualization software.

Install Jira on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx and Let’sEncrypt SSL on Google Compute Engine. Jira is a software designed to help teams to plan, track, managing software developments easily. This setup is tested on Ubuntu 18.04 on Google Cloud Platform. These steps will work on other Linux distros and any VPS or Dedicated or AWS or Azure or any cloud hosting.

Fedora has released an Internet of Things edition called "Fedora IoT". Here is a review of Fedora IoT and its relevant installation instructions.

Distrotest is one site that provides a variety of Linux distributions that can be run directly on the browser. Or you can also run it on a remote desktop client application, for example using Remmina. So, you can try various linux distributions online without having to install it or make a live CD.

Open eShop is a free and open-source PHP-based web interface that allows its users to easily sell their digital goods such as MP3s, eBooks, Movies, Software, or any other downloadable item on offer. In this tutorial, we’ll go over the steps needed to install Open eShop on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS. The installation of Open eShop is pretty easy, and this tutorial will go into details on how to install and configure Open eShop on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS with Apache web server, MySQL database server and PHP.

Carl Sagan once said, "The universe is a pretty big place. If it[he]#039[/he]s just us, seems like an awful waste of space." In that vast desert of seeming nothingness hides some of the most mysterious and beautiful creations humankind ever has—or ever will—witness. Open source projects are helping to satisfy our curiosity about what lies far beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Notepad++ is a free and open-source code editor. This article shows how to install the powerful and handy notepad++ editor on Debian 10.

Forlinx’s sandwich-style OK1043A-C and OK1046A SBCs run Linux on NXP’s quad -A53 LS1043A and quad -A72 LS1046A SoCs, respectively, and offer a 10GbE port and up to 6x GbE ports with optional SFP. Forlinx has posted product pages for two similar COM Express modules and carrier boards that run Linux on NXP’s networking focused LS […]

Martin Wimpress announced today the release of the Ubuntu MATE 19.10 operating system as part of the Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) series.

The best way to test the Linux based distribution without out-right installing it on your hard drive as dual boot system is to install it in a virtual machine, be it Virtual Box (by Oracle) or VMware Workstation (either Pro version or a Player, by VMware).

Compression is best applied to data, not humans. Here are a few of my favorite ways to distance myself from the pressures of being a sysadmin.

DNF stands for Dandified YUM is a software package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions. It is used to install, update and remove packages in the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS operating system. In this tutorial, we will explain how to manage package with DNF on CentOS 8.

Avalue’s Linux-friendly “ESM-CFH” is a COM Express Basic Type 6 module with 8th and 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs, up to 96GB DDR4, and support for 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, 4x SATA, 8x PCIe, and triple displays. Avalue has announced a COM Express Basic Type 6 that represents the current pinnacle of Intel-based compute modules […]

This is the third in a series of conversations with developers who build and maintain open source music players. Craig Drummond is the developer and maintainer of Cantata, an open source music player that acts as a frontend (client) to the Music Player Daemon (MPD) music server. I have two small headless computers at home configured as music servers—one connected to our stereo in our living room, one in my upstairs office.read more