On Linux and UNIX operating systems, a Windows share can be mounted on a particular mount point in the local directory tree using the cifs option of the mount command. The Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a network file-sharing…
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Microsoft Is Bringing Gmail, Google Drive And Calendar to Outlook…And Other Small Business Tech News
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 — Microsoft is bringing Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar to Outlook. Microsoft has started testing their integration…
How to Add Windows and Linux host to Nagios Server for Monitoring
By James Kiarie In the previous article, we demonstrated how to install Nagios Core on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 server. In this guide, we will dive deeper and add Linux and Windows hosts to the Nagios Core server for monitoring. Adding…
Modifying Microsoft Windows local accounts with Fedora and chntpw
Posted by Shaun Assam I recently encountered a problem at work where a client’s Windows 10 PC lost trust to the domain. The user is an executive and the hindrance of his computer can affect real-time mission-critical tasks. He gave…
How to Disable Automatic Updates for Windows 10.1
Microsoft Windows 10.1 is widely used as the OS is still the most dominant in the market. As much as we advocate Linux, we still offer support for Windows and Apple Mac users because open source goes beyond Linux. Most…
Microsoft’s Edge Goes With the Chromium Flow
Microsoft on Monday released the first Dev and Canary channel builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge, which is based on the Chromium open source project. The company last year revealed that it was reworking its Edge browser to…
Microsoft Becomes Master of Its Own Linux Kernel
icrosoft this week announced that its own full Linux kernel will power WSL2, the newest version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This marks the first time that Microsoft will include the Linux kernel as a component in Windows.…
Red Hat Introduces Commercial Support for OpenJDK on Microsoft Windows
Enables organizations to standardize builds for all Java workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of long-term commercial support for OpenJDK on Microsoft Windows. By adding to…
Publishing GitHub Pages from Azure Pipelines for Microsoft Developers.
An Article from MATT COOPER – Program Manager, Azure Pipelines Do you work on or maintain a project for technical users? A key part of attracting users, especially to an open source project, is publishing great documentation. However, keeping it…
Microsoft Open source its Calculator App on Github
What do you think of Microsoft who recently open sourced its calculator application on Github? Is this a new era or just some mind game? Software giant – Microsoft recently open sourced its Calculator App on Github and this was…