Oracle has brushed aside an outreach from the open-source database community seeking more cooperative support for the MySQL project. Many long-time MySQL contributors, engineers, and ecosystem leaders ...

In this video I’m showing how I’ve built a very simple battery backup circuit for my home alarm system. The circuit charges a 12v lead acid battery and in an event of a power loss, it transfers the ...

Linux has a reputation for stability—and most of the time, that reputation is well deserved. But even the most reliable distribution can break. A failed system update, an incompatible package, a ...

Reinstalling Ubuntu can feel like a fresh start, but soon after, I always face the same problem: reinstalling all my apps, PPAs, and settings one by one. It takes hours, and I often forget something ...

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What is the Hosts File? The /etc/hosts file is a local text file used by the operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses before querying a DNS (Domain Name System) server. It provides a way to ...

Abstract: This paper presents the design and implementation of "Snapshot Service Interface-SSI", a standardized backup framework for the Linux platform. Linux is a prominent candidate for using such a ...

This is a docker image for MySQL backup. It is based on Alpine Linux and uses MySQL Client and MySQLDUMP to dump your database.

Void Linux is a unique and highly customizable Linux distribution that stands out due to its independence from other distributions and its use of the runit init system instead of systemd. This guide ...