How to Schedule Appointments and To-do Tasks in a Linux Terminal
If you are a Linux system administrator who enjoys spending your time in terminal-land, but also needs a way to stay on top of your everyday tasks, appointments and meetings, you will find calcurse to...
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Timely FOSS Training and Tutorial Resources for Year's End
It's that time of year, when many bloggers and authors round up their favorite open source tutotials and educational resources. Opensource.com has a nice roundup of tutorials that showed up this year,...
View ArticleFedora 21 Workstation Installation Guide with Screenshots
Fedora 21 has been released several days ago with many new changes and updated packages, if you want to view all the new changes and updates in Fedora 21, you may check our previous article about it....
View ArticleHow to Create a Jailed ssh User With Jailkit on Debian Wheezy
How to create a jailed ssh user with Jailkit on Debian Wheezy This document describes how to install and configure Jailkit in Debian Wheezy Server. Jailkit is a set of utilities to limit user...
View ArticleCreating your First App on Linux with Python and Flask
Whether playing on Linux or working on Linux there is a good chance you have come across a program written in python. Back in college I wish they thought us Python instead of Java like they do today,...
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How to Configure a Touchscreen on Linux
Ah the touchscreen ─ that piece of hardware that promises to finally strip humanity of an interface very much long in the tooth. I’m talking about the mouse. It’s that piece of technology that is...
View ArticleHow to Create and Use Barcodes with Free Software
Producing the barcode itself is trivial in Inkscape -- the leading Free/Open Source Software vector drawing application -- ever since the extension became part of the standard distribution, with...
View ArticleAuditd - Tool for Security Auditing on Linux Server
Auditd or audit daemon, is a userspace component to the Linux Auditing System. On Ubuntu based system , we can use wajig tool or apt-get tool to install auditd. Read more at Linoxide.
View ArticleHow to Monitor System Usage, Outages and Troubleshoot Linux Servers – Part 9
Although Linux is very reliable, wise system administrators should find a way to keep an eye on the system’s behaviour and utilization at all times. Ensuring an uptime as close to 100% as possible and...
View Article15 Unix Tricks to Get Your New Year Off to a Good Start
The Unix command line provides numerous ways to make our work easier. Display the last word in every line of a file This one is pretty easy if you know the meaning of $NF. I came across this many...
View ArticleHow to Modify the Motorola Moto E for Anti-Surveillance
What if you could have a phone that wasn't a walking room bug? What if it was a useful, cheap and easy wifi hotspot but with an actual user interface? Wouldn't it be nice if it had good battery life?...
View ArticleResources for Learning Systemd
Systemd is coming a linux distro near you. In fact, if you're using RHEL 7+, CentOS 7+, Fedora 15+ or Arch, you're already using systemd. You can always stick to a distribution that stays clear of...
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Introduction to the OpenStack API
OpenStack is an open-source, standard cloud computing platform. Included with OpenStack is an API that you can use for writing software that manages a cloud. You can write scripts that run as jobs to...
View ArticleLocal MirageOS Development With Xen and Virtualbox
MirageOS is a library operating system. An application written for MirageOS is compiled to an operating system kernel that only contains the specific functionality required by the application - a...
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How to Stream Content from a Linux System to Chromecast
Chromecast is one of the most used devices in my household. After using it for over a year now, I believe there is no longer a market for the so-called 'smart TV'. Inexpensive devices like Chromecast...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Pebble Smartwatch
Despite the ongoing craze for wearable technology, most notably smartwatches, a number of young Makers are finding that can sometimes be a bit out of their price range. Rather than having to...
View ArticleLXC Container Networking Deep Dive
This post is to consolidate all our LXC networking guides and also explore some advanced container networking that have limited use but are interesting nonetheless hence the Flockport labs monicker....
View ArticleA Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on Amazon Web Services -...
It seems like everyone today wants to build the next great scalable web app. And, at least according to Gartner, Amazon Web Services has emerged as the undisputed leading cloud provider where you...
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How to Install and Update Software on openSUSE Like a Pro
There are so many reasons why you might be considering the migration to SUSE or openSUSE. For some, it’s the logical step to integrating Linux into a business environment (SUSE paid support is...
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How to Install a Seafile Server to Run a Private Cloud
Cloud is a buzzword these days; everyone is moving to the cloud even if most of us don’t even know what it actually means. To me, cloud is a fictional place that processes and stores my data; in the...
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