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Microsoft is building Edge on top of Chromium (open source version of Google Chrome)

Posted: 06 Dec 2018 11:14 AM PST

It is official now. Microsoft is throwing away old code base of Edge browser and making next version of Edge browser on top of Chromium. The open source project behind Google Chrome is known as Chromium. Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 on both x86 and ARM-based systems.

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Multiple vulnerabilities in FreeBSD NFS server code

Posted: 28 Nov 2018 07:36 AM PST

FreeBSD is a free and open source operating system. The NFS (Network File System) is a server and client application that turn FreeBSD into a file sharing server. Users can upload or update files on a remote NFS server. NFS is standard on NAS (network attached storage) devices or sharing data for web servers. A new bug found in NFS server code which could allow a remote attacker to crash the NFS server, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack. Another possibility is to execute arbitrary code on the server.

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Raspberry $25 Pi 3 Model A+ Released – Complete specs and pricing

Posted: 15 Nov 2018 02:32 AM PST

The Raspberry Pi is a small single-board computer (SBC) developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It supposes to promote the teaching of computer science, programming for kids and in developing countries. The new Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ comes with 1.4GHz clock speed, 5GHz wireless networking and improved thermals of Raspberry Pi 3B+ in a smaller form factor. It costs $25.

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KDE has been deprecated in RHEL 7.6 and future version of RHEL

Posted: 02 Nov 2018 12:52 PM PDT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is well known to set defaults across the industry. For example, RHEL pushed systemd so hard that all other Linux distro adopted for good or bad reasons. Now Red Hat announced that KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE) been deprecated from RHEL 7.6 and all future version of RHEL.

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Open Source Linux Powered System76 Thelio Desktops Is Here

Posted: 02 Nov 2018 12:31 AM PDT

The top 500 most powerful supercomputers on the planet run Linux operating system. Linux has a 100% market share of those machines and a large share of cloud computing, VMs, and bare metal market too. Obviously, developers and people who care about their privacy need Linux pre-installed so that they can get back to work ASAP. System76 released new desktop systems with Linux pre installed. The Thelio desktops computer available with both AMD and Intel CPU. AMD is more user-friendly to the Linux and provides a better price-performance ratio.

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Book Review: Absolute FreeBSD (3rd Edition)

Posted: 31 Oct 2018 05:41 AM PDT

FreeBSD is a free and open source operating system for many different kinds of computers. FreeBSD's based upon BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. FreeBSD is an alternative to Linux or Windows-based system. You can run almost all apps written in Perl, Python, PHP and other programming languages. FreeBSD heavily used by Netflix, EMC, IBM, Juniper, NetApp, Apple, Sony, and others. Absolute FreeBSD (3rd ed) book aims to be the complete guide to FreeBSD. Let us see why Michael W. Lucas' FreeBSD system administration books so favorite among Unix lovers.

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Helios4 Arm-Based Open Source NAS SBC For Linux/FreeBSD

Posted: 29 Jul 2018 09:15 AM PDT

Helios4 is ARM-based open source NAS SBC (Single-board computer) for Linux. This NAS (Network Attached Storage) comes with 4 SATA 3.0 port and comes with ECC memory. Let us see some details about the Helios4 Arm-Based Open Source NAS SBC and ongoing Kickstarter camping.

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Shell script to set up an LXD (Linux Containers) VM lab for testing purpose

Posted: 30 Apr 2017 09:59 AM PDT

Shell script to mirror backups to another server in pull mode using rsync

Posted: 28 Apr 2017 11:55 AM PDT

Linux/Unix bash shell script to purge Cloudflare url/images from the command line

Posted: 28 Apr 2017 05:13 AM PDT