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Linus Torvalds: Another week, another -rc.

Here are some current figures on system administrator salaries to help you toward your next steps

2DayGeek: Easy way to reset/change the Nagios Admin password in Linux

There's a new music player on the block. It's called Violin

Tecmint: SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular and widely used tool for remote login and file transfers over insecure networks, that uses encryption to secure the connection between a client and a server.

Brandon Edwards, Chief Scientist at Capsule8, talks about about a compendium of container escapes, and the RunC vulnerability in particular.

2DayGeek: Unattended Upgrades utility allows you to install security updates automatically.

Phoronix: Oracle now says they are working towards upstreaming more work as well as getting an eBPF-based implementation for the kernel.

At its annual user conference, CloudBees previews a new Software Delivery Management platform as the DevOps vendor celebrates 15 years of Jenkins.

Getting an idea how often your users are logging in and how much time they spend on a Linux server is pretty easy

DevOps plays an essential role in digital transformation - from identifying patterns to uncovering new revenue streams.

What is a Kubernetes secret?

This article shows how to install and use Mackup using two different methods on Ubuntu.

Pico is an open-source simple and fast flat-file CMS written in PHP.

5 Different Ways To Hide Files Inside Images In Linux

Tecmint: Redis is an advanced persistent key-value database with a network interface and key features such as built-in replication

The new Apollo update is intended to enable organizations to federate multiple enterprise data sets more easily and use APIs to tap into disparate data sources.

gHacks: Installation of MX Linux was an absolute breeze, with one of the easiest graphical installation tools I have used thus far in my Linux history.

opensource.com: Let's look closely at the Apache Hive and Apache HBase to understand which one can cope better with query performance.

ZDnet: And, as it happens, they're also the best Chromebook laptops for home or work, too.

The Apache Software Foundation's 2019 report values their code-base at more than $20 billion USD using the COCOMO 2 model for estimating.

EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux and is a subcommunity of the Fedora and CentOS projects

Learn how to find out which services are listening on which ports using the netstat, ss and lsof commands.

Learn two ways to convert all files and folder names in a given path to lowercase, simply through the command line.

As a security guy, I approve of defense-in-depth, which is why I like Silverblue.

ostechnix: SSLH, a SSL/SSH multiplexer, allows us to share a same port for https, ssh on Linux.

 itFOSS: If you are tired of fixing your system, reinstalling would be the quick and dirty way to get out of it.

 Techrights: Roy isn't exactly a fan of the Linux Foundation...

LinuxUprising: The latest NVIDIA 435.17 Linux beta driver has added Vulkan and OpenGL+GLX support for PRIME render offload.

sudo is a command-line utility designed to allow trusted users to run commands as another user, by default the root user.

In this article, we will explain how you can install Cantata to your Ubuntu through the official Ubuntu repositories, and also through the PPA (for the latest version).

Mozilla plans to make changes to the information that the organization's Firefox browser displays in its address bar when it connects to sites.

It’s been in development for over 4 years, but this weekend finally saw the long-awaited release of Xfce 4.14.

opensource.com: Here are some things that are not central to what open source is and where it’s going.

Linoxide: Learn different ways to append text to the end of a file in Linux.

Phoronix: Bringing Reiser4 to the Linux 5.1 kernel required various changes to the block layer's interface.

Cast to TV is a GNOME Shell extension to cast videos, music and pictures to Chromecast or other devices over a local network.

Ubuntu livepatch can avoid server reboot without compromising security.

Installing and setting up rTorrent and ruTorrent on an Ubuntu or Debian server can be a complicated, tedious task, specially for inexperienced users.

Confused about zombie processes, what they are, what they cause, and how to get rid of them?