Keep your edge with these powerful Linux administration tools:
Jan 07, 2019Watching the Bad Guys with Cowrie
Trigger Admin Tasks with Systemd
Become a certified Linux Admin professional with the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Systems Administrator certification.
more »Universal Package Formats and How They Differ Flatpak and Snap
Jun 13, 2017We talk with Alexander Larsson, the creator of Flatpak, and Thibaut Rouffineau, a member of the Snap team.
more »Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Jun 29, 2016Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
more »Will DNF Replace Yum? Behind the Scenes at Fedora’s Future Package Manager
Jan 14, 2014DNF will soon replace Yum as Fedora’s default package manager, but it still has some hurdles to overcome.
more »RPM Tools Maintaining system integrity with package management helpers
Oct 26, 2012Linux has several convenient package management systems, but they are not entirely free of weaknesses. We show you how to keep the RPM package management system permanently stable and how to get rid of some ballast with just two small programs: rpmorphan and rpmrestore.
more »Security Lessons: Admin Automation Deploying with confidence
Apr 24, 2012Combining Puppet, Foreman, Pulp, Candlepin, and Katello lets you deploy software and servers automatically and securely.
more »WANdisco Acquires SVNForum.org
Jan 17, 2011WANdisco, makers of Enterprise Subversion, announced its acquisition of SVNForum.org, an 20,000+ Subversion user community, today.
more »What is Upstart?
Jan 06, 2011Originally created for use in Ubuntu, Upstart is suitable for deployment in all Linux distributions as an alternative to the System-V init.
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Linux Kernel Continues To Offer Mitigation for Spectre Mitigation
Kernel 4.19 has added another family of Spectre vulnerabilities to its list of mitigating the mitigation.
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SpeakUp Trojan Targets Linux Servers
It’s exploiting a known vulnerability.
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KDE Plasma 5.15 Beta Arrives
Major improvements to software management.
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Canonical Announces Latest Ubuntu Core for IoT
Now offers 10 years of support.
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GitHub Offers Free Private Repositories
Popular source code collaboration site makes a major change to feature set.
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Linus Torvalds Welcomes 2019 with Linux 5.x
Better support for GPUs and CPUs.
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Keep your edge with these powerful Linux administration tools:
Watching the Bad Guys with Cowrie
Trigger Admin Tasks with Systemd
Become a certified Linux Admin professional with the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Systems Administrator certification.
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Microsoft Gets an Open Source Web Browser
The company will use Google Chromium web browser as the foundation for its next browser.
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Canonical Launches MicroK8s
Deploy Kubernetes in a few seconds.
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A New Raspberry Pi Board
The new board packs everything that you get in Raspberry Pi 3B+ in a smaller package.