I Asked "What Are The Best Linux Distributions For The Average Person", You ...
Introduction At the beginning of August I released an article listing the 5 linux distributions that I would recommend for the Everyday Linux User . The distributions I listed in the article were Linux...
View ArticleHow to Add Mac OS X’s ‘Quick Look’ Feature to Ubuntu
Sometimes Nautilus’ icon thumbnails and meta-data just isn’t good enough. Sometimes you wantto take a closer look at a file, photo or folder to make sure it’s the one you want. And that’s whereGNOME...
View ArticleTurkish Distro Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 Gets Second Beta, Adds Linux Kernel 4.7.2
The Pisi GNU/linux development team is happy to announce the availability of the second Beta release of the upcoming Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 operating system for personal computers and laptops. It appears...
View ArticleWelcoming our new Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator
Good news, everybody! I’m pleased to announce that we have completedour search for a new Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator, and he’ll be joining the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team...
View ArticleVirtualBox no longer running in Debian
Today I had a strange problem with virtualbox in Debian Jessie which was no longer running. When I start a virtual machine I got the following error message The VirtualBox linux kernel driver (vboxdrv)...
View ArticleOpen vSwitch Future Takes Shape
As core network virtualization technologies go, it’s hard to imagine one that is more strategic than Open vSwitch ( OVS ). OVS is now the network foundation for most VMware environments and...
View ArticleUseful *NIX Shell Commands for Web Developers
So, why *NIX and why do you need to go to the console? According to the statistics of W3Techs , Unix is used by 68% of all the websites whose operating system they know. This means that if you are web...
View ArticleHow to install and configure Ansible on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With DevOps taking hold in businesses ranging from small design agencies to large enterprises, there has been a real push to automate deployments and make them consistent. As part of this, maintaining...
View ArticleA look at an SELinux error message
As a fan of the SElinux security framework that runs as part of Linux, I thought it would be a good idea to improve my skillset in this area, and go beyond the basics. Part of that is research,...
View Article3 Steps to Fixing Fedora 24+ Font Rendering
This is shamelessly reproduced from the Fedora subreddit thread that covers exactly this problem. I am posting it here so that I can find it again in the future. First thing I noticed when switching...
View ArticlePrimavera, Alibaba’s Ant Financial dunk $460M into KFC’s new spinout Yum China
After raising $4.5 billion at a $60 billion valuation earlier this year, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial ― which operates the Alipay payments service ― is hungry to putsome of that money to use to...
View ArticleThe Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
When enemies of the GPL (GNU) like Microsoft and VMware ― not just GNU/linux-friendly companies such as Red Hat ― pay the Linux Foundation to get their way Summary : The growing danger of a Linux...
View ArticleHow to encrypt your Fedora file system
What is encryption? In cryptography , encryption is encoding information sothat only authorized parties can read it. Encryption doesn’t necessarily prevent someone else from getting access to your...
View ArticleCreate Your Own Local apt Repository to Avoid “Dependency Hell”
There are times when you download a .deb file that simply must be installed. Once on your machine, you run the dpkg command on the file only to find yourself in a quagmire of dependencies....
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Snapcraft workshop at Akademy
I’m looking forward to next week, as On Wednesday I’m going to give this workshop WHAT: Creating snaps with snapcraft MAR 0.017 Wednesday, 7th September 10:00 12:00 So if you are interested in learning...
View ArticleHow to access your Google Drive account from Linux command line using Gdrive
While Google Drive is no doubt one of the most popular (if not the most popular) cloud storage services available today, what's really sad is that there is no official Drive client available for...
View ArticleDeleting users from Ranger database
Once you sync users in Apache Ranger they will stay in the database even if we sync ranger users from a different source. All those users will clutter up the Ranger user interface. Following two...
View ArticleFacebook Open-Sources New Compression Algorithm Outperforming Zlib
The new Zstandard 1.0 compression algorithm, recently open sourced by Facebook, is one of the few compression algorithms that is both faster and more efficient than zlib, the current “reigning...
View Article在linux中使用ramdisk文件系统的步骤
在linux中使用ramdisk文件系统的步骤 5小时前来源:路饭网 在linux中使用ramdisk文件系统的步骤 博主的新Blog地址:http://www.brantchen.com 欢迎访问:) 这是摘自《Unix&Linux网管通鉴》中题为:Ramdisk:在linux下如何使用RAM作为虚拟硬盘?的文章,标注为:http://www.linuxfocus.org by Mark...
View ArticleFedora 23 vs. Rawhide Performance Tests, Xorg vs. Wayland & More
Fedora 23 vs. Rawhide Performance Tests, Xorg vs. Wayland & More Written by Michael Larabel inFedora on 4 March 2016 at 02:54 AM EST.Add A Comment For those interested in the performance of Fedora...
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