OOW16: Showcase Partner Spotlight Solution-Soft
Are you coming toOracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, Sept. 18-22? We have great line up of sessions and hands-on labs happening. See all the sessions here . This year we are very excited to have 8...
View ArticleClassic Unix/Linux editor Vim gets first update in years
In 1976, Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and BSD Unix hacker, needed a text editor that would work over a 300 baud modem connection. Emacs wouldn't do. As Joy has said, "The people doing...
View ArticleElegant and Effective Deepin 15.3 Linux OS Launches with Interface Improvements
Today, September 13, 2016, the development team behind the Deepin linux operating system were happy to announce the availability of the third maintenance update to the Deepin 15 series. Deepin 15.3 has...
View ArticleKDE Plasma 5.7.5 Is the Last in the Series, Plasma 5.8 LTS to Land October 4
Today, September 13, 2016, the KDE development team proudly announced the release and immediate availability of the last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment series. Yes,...
View ArticleKaOS 2016.09 Is Here as the First Linux Distro to Offer KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Beta
Today, September 13, 2016, the KaOS development team had the great pleasure of announcing the availability of a new, updated installation medium of their KaOS linux computer operating system. KaOS...
View ArticleRun Kali Linux in Microsoft Azure on SSD for free
Big news for Kali linux users, now you can run Kali Linux in Microsoft Azure cloud and that’s on super fast SSD! It seems Microsoft Azure Marketplace is adding more and more Linux distro including...
View ArticleFOSS Wave: FOSS and Fedora in Bangalore, India
On August 20th, 2016, I helped organize the first workshop in my college, Christ University , titled “ FOSS and Fedora “. The event was a great success! Reviving Labyrinth I have planned to do this...
View ArticleLinux Foundation Certified System Administrator: Theary Sorn
The linux Foundation offers many resources for developers, users, and administrators of Linux systems. One of the most important offerings is its Linux Certification Program , which is designed to...
View ArticleLinux进程间通信简介
进程间通信有如下一些目的: 1、数据传输:一个进程需要将它的数据发送给另一个进程。 2、共享数据:多个进程想要操作共享数据,一个进程对共享数据的修改,别的进程应该立刻看到。 3、通知事件:一个进程需要向另一个或一组进程发送消息,通知它(它们)发生了某种事件(如进程终止时要通知父进程)。 4、资源共享:多个进程之间共享同样的资源。为了作到这一点,需要内核提供锁和同步机制。...
View ArticleServer Monitoring with Shinken on Ubuntu 16.04
Shinkenis an open source computer and network monitoring framework written in python and compatible with Nagios. Shinken can be used on all operating systems that can run python applications like...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 4.4.9 LTS Is Out, Introduces Multiple ARM, EXT4, and x86 Changes
Immediately after informing us about the availability of linux kernel 4.5.3 for select GNU/Linux operating systems, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman posted details about the release of the ninth...
View ArticleZFS, BTRFS, XFS, EXT4 and LVM with KVM A Storage Performance Comparison (2015...
Page 1 of 11 Virtual machines storage performance is a hot topic after all, one of the main problem when virtualizing many OS instances is to correctly size the I/O subsystem, both in term of space and...
View ArticleHow To Get Android Push Notifications on the Ubuntu Desktop
Do you use Pushbullet? If so, check out a new app called PB for Desktop . It’s a free and open-source desktop-client for Pushbullet ― and totally unofficial, too. The developer of it says he created...
View ArticleLatest openSUSE Tumbleweed Snapshots Bring Wine 1.9.18, Glibc 2.24 & Mesa...
The first snapshots for the month of September have been released for the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system, and Douglas DeMaio is here again to report on the freshly added software...
View ArticleCreating Python 3 Virtual Environments on Centos7
There’s a bug presently in CentOS 7’s python2 virtualenv package that breaks the ability to create python 3 virtual envs with the python3 binary ( from package python34 in EPEL ), making these...
View ArticleSixth Linux DDoS Trojan Discovered in the Last 30 Days
linux users have yet another trojan to worry about, and as always, crooks are deploying it mostly to hijack devices running Linux-based operating systems and use them to launch DDoS attacks at their...
View ArticleIt's time to make LibreOffice and OpenOffice one again
Image: Jack Wallen Let's talk about OpenOffice. More than likely you've already read, countless times, that Apache OpenOffice is near the end. The last stable iteration was 4.1.2 (released October,...
View ArticleFlatpak 0.6.10 Makes the Dependency on systemd in the User Session Optional
Flatpak developer Alex Larsson announced the release of Flatpak 0.6.10, a new maintenance update of the universal linux binary format used in various GNU/Linux distributions. Release highlights of...
View ArticleContainerizing of Manifold and rtndf (almost) complete
I’ve certainly been learning a fair bit about Docker lately. Didn’t realize that it is reasonably easy to containerize GUI nodes as well as console mode nodes so now rtnDocker contains scripts to...
View ArticleMutter Window Manager Gets More Wayland Fixes Before the Launch of GNOME 3.22
The GNOME 3.22 desktop environment should soon get a Release Candidate (RC) version, which marks the end of its development cycle before the final launch on September 21, 2016. GNOME 3.22 Release...
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