Billed as the future of package management, universal package systems like Snappy and Flatpak have failed to live up to their promise.

Restoring Deleted Files in Linux

FOG: Clone and Deploy Desktop Computers

Getting to Know Firewalld

Manage logs with logrotate

Fail2ban: A Password Protection Service

Cross-Platform Database Management with DBeaver

Hardening Linux for Production Use

Become a certified Linux Admin professional with the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Systems Administrator certification.

We talk with Alexander Larsson, the creator of Flatpak, and Thibaut Rouffineau, a member of the Snap team.

Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.

DNF will soon replace Yum as Fedora’s default package manager, but it still has some hurdles to overcome.

Linux 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.

Combining Puppet, Foreman, Pulp, Candlepin, and Katello lets you deploy software and servers automatically and securely.

WANdisco, makers of Enterprise Subversion, announced its acquisition of SVNForum.org, an 20,000+ Subversion user community, today.