The 5 Best Screen Recorders for Linux

Screen capture on Linux has always been hit and miss. There are dozens of apps to choose from, some are good, and some are really bad. If you need to record a screencast on Linux, you’re going to have to invest time finding one that actually …

Sonic Mania review

There’s an area in Sonic 2’s Chemical Plant Zone that still has me clutching my chest when I think of it. Tucked towards the end of the second act is a shaft filled with moving blocks, sliding around in clumps of four to create a precarious …

Review: Drobo 5N2

Network-attached storage (NAS) can be a wonderful thing, yet for the average consumer you could argue that many of today’s NAS solutions are more complex than need be. There ought to be a simpler way, and Drobo reckons it has the answer with a neat-looking box …

GPD Pocket, The 7-Inch Ubuntu Laptop, is Now Shipping

Ubuntu fans with small fingers and big pockets will be pleased to hear that the GPD Pocket Ubuntu edition has begun shipping. Demand for the diminutive device has been huge. In all, the GPD Pocket raised $3,509,253 via IndieGoGo — a staggering 1516% of its original …

How to secure your LAMP server

  The LAMP stack which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP/Python/Perl is a very popular combination of free and open-source software used to run millions of websites today. Although many opt for the much efficient LEMP stack based on Nginx instead of Apache, there are …

How to Install and Configure Chef on Ubuntu 17.04

How to Install and Configure Chef on Ubuntu 17.04 Chef is a free and open source configuration management tool. It is written in Ruby and Erlang. Chef can easily integrate with cloud based platforms such as AWS, OpenStack, or RackSpace, etc to automatically create and manage …

How to Install RabbitMQ Server on CentOS 7

How to Install RabbitMQ Server on CentOS 7 RabbitMQ is a free and open source enterprise message broker software. It is written in Erlang and implements Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP). It provides client libraries in all major programming languages. It supports multiple messaging protocols, message …

How to Install SonarQube on Ubuntu 16.04

How to Install SonarQube on Ubuntu 16.04 SonarQube is a free and open source quality management system platform that can be used to automate code inspection. It can analyze source code files, calculate a set of metrics and show the result on the web based dashboard. …