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The Debian Project has released the seventh update of Debian 8 Jessie. This release ships with tons of security updates, bug fixes, and updated packages.  The existing users of Debian 8 need to point the apt package tool to one of the updated Debian mirrors and get the update. The new installation media and ISO images are yet to be published. Update:  Debian 8.7’s ISO images are now available for download. It can be grabbed via these  mirrors  or download the installation images from  here . B ack in early 2015, Debian 8.0 Jessie was released after spending two years in development. This release switched back to GNOME as the default desktop environment choice. Now, the Debian Project is here with the latest update to this long-standing Linux distribution. The seventh update of Debian 8, i.e. Debian GNU/Linux 8.7, has  just been released . As expected, this release fixes tons of existing security issues. Notably, many of the included security ...

Do you know that the development of Linux was never started with the intention of making it an open source kernel? At the recent TED conference in Vancouver, Linus Torvalds revealed more interesting facts about his life and working style. L inux kernel is the world’s biggest open source collaborative project. This would automatically trick your brain into thinking that the person behind the kernel would be someone who loves working with fellow programmers. Well, proving you wrong, Linux founder, Linus Torvalds, admitted that he originally didn’t intend to make Linux open-source and began working on it as a solitary project. This happened at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Vancouver. “It wasn’t open source,” he said. “It was source that was open. There was no intention.” “I’m actually not a people person. I don’t really love other people. I love computers,” the legendary software engineer Linus Torvalds said in an interview with Chris Ande...

Bored using windows or any other server in your computing experience? Linux has been designed to offer you smooth and effective experience. Whether you want to use it for business or any other home operations, Linux offers the most reliable system to adopt. Linux has become one of the most adopted systems by many users in and around the world. Most of the world’s largest data centers across the globe use Linux. There are various reasons that answer why should we use Linux, keep on reading. Why Should we use Linux? 1. Linux is free of charge and in case you still doubt, then know that it is. In case you want to get rid of all the restrictions in terms of patents of any other form of restriction, then this would be the best switch for you. Linux can be edited in terms of the source code by most of the innovative business owners. It is, therefore, the best system to be adopted by a large number of business owners who want to simplify their business operations. 2.  Linux is more s...

Press the “up” arrow in the Mac or Linux command line and you’ll see the last command you ran. Keep pressing “up” and you’ll see more commands; you can go back days, months, or even years. This is called your history, and it’s very convenient. If you made a mistake typing a long command, simply press “up” and fix the problem. If you want to re-connect to an SSH server you used the other day, simply press “up” until you see the relevant command. It’s useful, but there’s also a potential security problem here, particularly if you accidentally typed a password in plain text at some point. How does one clear this history? Long story short, you can do so with two commands:  history -c , followed by  rm ~/.bash_history . Here’s what those commands do, for greater clarity. Clear the Current Session’s History Your history can be broke down into two chunks. There’s your current sessions’ history, and there’s your long-term history. Our first command,  history -c , deals with the c...

Readability is the path to more interesting projects within a career. Readability is the path to knowing what you wrote 5 years ago, and makes code reuse actually viable Readability is the path to acquiring protégées that can learn from your style. Readability that is understandable by others allows people to appreciate your code at a level of architecture, not just functional. Readability is the path of lease resistance when you have a bug in your code. Readability is the how you put ideas into understandable text and syntax, much like writing a paragraph in natural language. Readability is somehow not a priority for most other developers, however it’s probably pretty important to your development director, if you work for one. Readability is more important than most believe. With moore’s law, it’s even more important to focus on readability than pre-mature optimization. Here’s more: Most schools and colleges teach computer science like trade school skills. How to fix a car. How to be...

Many of you might be using sudo and su in terminal every day to accomplish different tasks. While sudo runs a single command with root privileges, su launches another shell instance with the privileges of the intended user. Both, sudo and su, are use to grant root privileges to the users in different manners. A Linux user comes across sudo and su in terminal very often. If you are a new Linux user, you might be fascinated by the things you can do with sudo and su. Last week, I also told you about a Windows command that you can use to get  sudo-like functionality . Sudo and su  provide root privileges in two different ways. But, how are they different? Here, I’ll try to answer this query. Before telling you the difference, let me tell you the meaning of a root user. The root user in a Linux system has the maximum permissions and he/she can do anything to the systems. Apart from letting a normal user install/delete some package, root user permission...

The various logical drives in Windows are assigned a drive letter. Generally, the drive letter for the first logical drive is C followed by D, E, F. Well, A and B are also alphabets. These drive letters are kept in reserve for some special purpose. Here is the reason. I n the case of Windows and many other operating systems, a physical hard drive–used to install OS files and store data–is divided into partitions. In Windows, these partitions can be formatted using  file systems  like NTFS, FAT32, etc. These partitions are then known as logical drives and they are assigned a drive letter. As far as my tech knowledge is concerned, it started to sprout in the mid-2000s. My first computer came with Windows and, obviously, or as some sort of a tradition, the first drive letter was C. In the beginning, I was told not to put any stuff in the C drive. Later, when a repair guy fixed my desktop, he installed Windows to the D drive. It seemed a bit unusual and it was a dilemma ...

Short Bytes:  Ubuntu 17.04 is scheduled to release next year in April 13. It’ll be a short-term release that’ll be supported for 9 months. At the moment, we don’t know much about the detailed features coming with Ubuntu 17.04. However, it’s expected to showcase more capabilities of Unity 8 and push Snap packages even more. F ollowing the  release of Ubuntu 16.10 , Canonical is gearing up for the release of the next iteration of the world’s most popular open-source operating system, i.e., Ubuntu 17.04. This release is  codenamed Zesty Zapus  after a jumping mouse found in the North American region. While Zapus stands for the genus name of a mouse, Zesty is an adjective for ‘great enthusiasm and energy.’ As the name suggests, this next short-term release will arrive in the month of April. If you’re an avid Ubuntu user, you must be knowing the significance of .04 in 17.04. Ubuntu 17.04 Release Date Ubuntu 17.04 final release will be generally available on  Apr...