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Tuesday 27th of March 2018 09:08:13 AM
The final specs of the soon-to-be-unveiled Huawei P20 line-up appear to have been leaked online ahead of tomorrow's official launch, giving us a glimpse of what to expect from the Android-powered smartphones.
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 07:53:53 AM
Managing an infrastructure of servers is a non-trivial task. When one cluster is misbehaving, logging in to multiple servers, checking each log, and using multiple filters until you find the culprit is not an efficient use of resources.read more
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 06:39:33 AM
News briefs for March 26, 2018.
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 05:25:12 AM
Sometimes, while working on the command line, you'll see outputs produced by commands in certain cases are so large that they don't fit into the screen area, and hence, you get to see only the last part of the output (as the initial part scrolls past the screen). Thankfully, there are utilities that are specifically designed to help you in such cases, and one of them is more.
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 04:10:52 AM
A decade after the last SSL/TLS web encryption standard was released, the IETF has finally settled on the 28th draft of the TLS 1.3 standard to be the next major protocol for internet security. The new standard aims to provide improved security and cryptographic assurances for the internet.
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 02:56:32 AM
Think it's complex to connect your Python program to the UNIX shell? Thinkagain!
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 01:42:12 AM
Last week our most popular articles covered a spectrum of fun and practical uses for technology at home and in the workplace. Here[he]#039[/he]s the list of reader favorites from March 19-25.
Tuesday 27th of March 2018 12:27:52 AM
The Linux Foundation brings technology vendors together to form new effort that aims to make it easier for different industry vertical to benefit from Artificial Intelligence.
Monday 26th of March 2018 11:13:32 PM
The Linux Mint project unveiled a “MintBox Mini 2” mini-PC with Linux Mint 19 preloaded on a Compulab Fitlet2 with a quad-core Celeron J3455, up to 8GB RAM and 120GB SSD, dual GbE, wireless, and mini-DP. For years, Compulab’s mini-PCs have offered pre-loaded Linux Mint, in addition to Windows and barebones options...
Monday 26th of March 2018 09:59:12 PM
Mozilla released on Monday the second point release of its latest Firefox 59 "Quantum" web browser for all supported platforms, fixing quite a bunch of issues and adding various improvements.
Monday 26th of March 2018 06:37:38 PM
Canonical's Snapcraft team announced over the weekend the release of Snapcraft 2.40, an incremental update to the open-source tool used for packaging Linux apps as Snaps for Ubuntu other Snap-enabled GNU/Linux distros.
Monday 26th of March 2018 05:11:51 PM
Bloated rc7 may or not be a sign of delaysLinus Torvalds is pretty sure he’ll release version 4.16 of the Linux kernel next week.…
Monday 26th of March 2018 03:46:05 PM
This article describes the changes to the IBM Power Architecture that can be used to provide enhanced protection of virtual machines from other software running on the same system. A new higher privilege mode called Ultravisor mode is being introduced, along with the concept of secure virtual machines (SVMs). This mode is supported by the Protected Execution Ultravisor which will be open sourced. An SVM is protected at rest, when transmitted over a network as a file, and while executing. In this article, we discuss the impact of this new architecture for SVMs. There is near-zero impact on VMs.
Monday 26th of March 2018 02:20:18 PM
When you need to save a code snippet or a URL, an idea or a quote, you probably fire up a text editor or turn to a desktop or web-based note-taking tool. But those aren't your only options. If you spend time working in terminal windows, you can use one of the many note-taking tools available for the Linux command line.Let's take a look at of those four apps.tnoteread more
Monday 26th of March 2018 12:54:32 PM
Pydio is a powerful open source web file sync and file share solution software for online collaboration, similar to Gdrive or other online file-sharing services. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the installation and configuration process of the Pydio Community Edition from source on Debian 9 release, on top of LAMP stack.
Monday 26th of March 2018 10:31:35 AM
One of the biggest success stories in open source is its support for users from all around the world. The hunspell spell checker project is a great example.Hunspell accesses dictionaries in dozens of languages to allow users to check the spelling...
Monday 26th of March 2018 08:08:38 AM
So, I’ve taken a look at a number if distributions so far, like Linux Mint, Manjaro and KDE Neon, but I figured I should show another distribution that I’d highly recommend for users who are new to GNU/Linux systems; Elementary OS.
Monday 26th of March 2018 05:45:41 AM
Kali Linux is undoubtedly one of the best operating systems ever built for ethical hackers. It is the most advanced penetration testing operating system based on Linux.... Here is the list of Top 10 among all popular Kali Linux tools.
Monday 26th of March 2018 03:22:43 AM
Charts can be rendered onto webpages with PHP by importing the correct modules and calling the provided functions. This tutorial will showcase how to generate charts with PHP on the server side. Let's get started.
Monday 26th of March 2018 12:59:46 AM
VIDEO: Senior developers know that one of the biggest problems with programming today isn[he]#039[/he]t the coding itself, but keeping on the right side of all the base code's open-source licenses. FOSSA has an answer.
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