Category: Linux

Brief: An interesting open-source peer-to-peer audio streaming app which offers a simple user interface with powerful functionalities. SonoBus: Cross-Platform Audio Streaming App Audio streaming services are extremely popular nowadays when listening to music. However, a local collection is still a useful way that does not require to be constantly connected to the Internet. Even though…

Zlib is an open source library for used for data compression. As an end user, you are likely to encounter the need of installing Zlib (or zlib devel package) as a dependency of another application. But here comes the problem. If you try installing Zlib on Ubuntu, it will throw “unable to locate package zlib”…

by Odysseas Lamztidis A year has passed since the pandemic left us spending the better part of our days sheltering inside our homes. It has been a challenging time for developers, Sysadmins, and entire IT teams for that matter who began to juggle the task of monitoring and troubleshooting an influx of data within their…

A Learning Management System (LMS) helps you automate and document the learning programs. It is suitable for both small-scale educational programs and university-level learning programs. Of course, even corporate training programs can be hosted using a learning management system. While it has a lot of use-cases, having a transparent platform for your Learning Management System…

The future of Fintech infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Using private and public cloud infrastructure at the same time allows financial institutions to optimise their CapEx and OpEx costs. Why Private clouds? Read moreKali Linux in the DigitalOcean Cloud | Kali Linux BlogA private cloud is an integral part of a hybrid multi-cloud strategy for financial…

OpenStack Charms 21.04 release brings native support for OpenStack Wallaby and Ceph Pacific in Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack. Those latest versions of OpenStack and Ceph come with numerous performance improvements, making the open infrastructure stack even more suitable for network and storage intensive workloads. In order to simplify Charmed OpenStack installation on low-end hardware, the OpenStack…

The PATH variable in Linux stores the path to the directories where it should look for executables when you run a command. abhishek@its-foss:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin As you can see, the PATH consists of several directories (like /usr/local/sbin, /usr/bin and more) separated by colon (:). If you want to run some executables as command from…

Enve is a cross-platform application that allows you to create vector animations and raster animations. You can even use audio and video files for creating your animation. Enve is open-source software using GPL 3 license. It is available for Linux, macOS and Windows. Enve for creating 2D animation in Linux There are several graphics tools…

by Philippe Humeau Introduction CrowdSec is an open-source & collaborative security solution built to secure Internet-exposed Linux services, servers, containers, or virtual machines with a server-side agent. It is a modernized version of Fail2ban which was a great source of inspiration to the project founders. CrowdSec is free (under an MIT License) and its source…

For the past several days, I faced a strange issue in my system running Ubuntu Linux. I use Firefox and Brave browsers. Everything was normal in Firefox but Brave keeps on detecting a network change on almost every refresh. This went on to the extent that it became impossible to use the browser. I could…

/e/ Android operating system is a privacy oriented, Google-free mobile operating system, fork of Lineage OS and was founded in mid-2018 by Gaël Duval, creator of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux). Despite making Android an open source project in 2007, Google replaced some OS elements with proprietary software when Android gained popularity. /e/ Foundation has…

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Ubuntu in the wild Hirsute Hippo is…