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A server block is an Nginx directive that defines settings for a specific domain

Today, using serverless means choosing a cloud platform to lock yourself into.

The iptables command is a powerful interface for your local Linux firewall.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has many new essential features and software tweaks.

The Battle for Wesnoth is an open-source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.

Learn how to use when conditionals statements in Ansible Playbook.

HowToForge: Polr is a free and open-source URL shortener

Depending on Distrowatch to know the distros popularity is totally wrong.

Virtual Date Optimizer is a block virtualization technology that provides inline deduplication and compression of data at a block device level.

Learn how to use the DEBIAN_FRONTEND shell variable for IT automation in shell script

Learn to use chown with some practical examples.

How systemd path units work together with service units to monitor files and directories and trigger actions on changes.

Kubenvaders is a Gamified Chaos Engineering tool for Kubernetes and Openshift and helps test how resilient your Kubernetes cluster is, in a fun way.

Phoronix:  Following the Linux 5.5 kernel release one of the first pull requests sent in is for the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates.

This release delivers a brand new desktop experience, updated software stacks, and hardware enablement.

The Register: 'Its life doesn't have to end!'

Git commit messages are crucial : they are used in order to describe and share with others what you did.

HowToForge: Sitecopy is a tool for copying locally stored websites to a remote web server (via FTP or WebDAV).

Linuxize: pidof is a command-line utility that allows you to find the process ID of a running program.

Sometimes we want to see the sizes of files as returned by the ls command to be displayed in some reasonable format or in other words in human readable presentation.

ostechnix: Resume partially transferred files over SSH using Rsync On Linux.

Thinking of taking a certification exam? Here are some tips to help you prepare.

Linus Torvalds: Despite the slight worry that the holidays might have affected the schedule, 5.5 ended up with the regular rc cadence and is out now.

2DayGeek: This tutorial shows the difference between RHEL8 vs RHEL7 vs RHEL6.

Announced last month around the Christmas holidays, the KDE Plasma 5.18 wallpaper contest has ended

Vokoscreen is a screen recording tool that can be used to record videos

 HowToForge: Wekan is a free and open-source Kanban Board built with the Meteor JavaScript framework and is distributed under the MIT license.

TechRights: Does the Linux Foundation speak for the open source community?

If you have a bunch of audio files that you want to convert to MP3, you can make use of the popular SoundConverter to convert audio files in Ubuntu.

TechRepublic: The reporting of bugs is stuck in the early 2000s and needs to evolve into something end users won't hesitate to use.

The Register: Share all our code modifications with others? Think again, hippie

Linuxize: timeout is a command-line utility that runs a specified command and terminates it if it is still running after a given period of time.

Many users, beginners and advanced are sometimes confused on how the PATH environment variable is handled on Linux.

Learn seven commands that can be used to check memory usage and swap space in Debian 10.

HowToForge: Managing database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQLite form the web-based UI is easier than using the command-line tool. A

A tale of how a sysadmin went from hobbyist and Level 1 tech to the big time at Red Hat.

Learn how to set up Asterisk so your softphones can receive incoming calls from outside and make outgoing calls outside your organization as well.

Find and delete the unused broken symlinks on Linux using 'symlinks' utility and "find" command.

Learn the basics of command substitution

Linux can get viruses, but you don't need an antivirus?!