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May was the month for learning at Linux.com and The Linux Foundation, and we covered a range of topics and offered an array of free resources to help you expand your knowledge of Linux and open source. Let’s take a look at some of the month’s most popular content.

I’m willing to bet that you do some (probably more than some) reading in a web browser. That reading might include everything from blog posts, articles, and essays to long forum posts and more. The problem with reading in a browser window is that it's full of distractions. Elements like navigation tools, headers and footers, ads, link boxes, and more can slow your reading and cause frustration. Let’s take a look at four open source tools that can get rid of those distractions. read more

This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of Linux in Action, published by Manning. Linux manages hardware peripherals using kernel modules. Here's how that works. read more

Snaps make short work of installing apps; in this tutorial, Jack shows how to install GIMP, for example.

Since every process (except the very first one) in a Linux system has a parent, it sometimes makes things easier to understand if all processes are displayed in a tree structure. You'll be glad to know there exists a command line utility - dubbed pstree - that displays a tree of processes.

The GDPR is breaking advertising apart. . Never mind the specifics of the regulation. Just look at the effects. Among those, two are obvious and everywhere: 1) opt-back-in emails and 2) "consent walls" in front of websites. Both of those misdirect attention away from how an entire branch of advertising ignored a simple moral principle that has long applied in the offline world: tracking people without their knowledge, approval or a court order is just flat-out wrong.

Atari quickly jumped to $2 million in funding for its Ubuntu-based “Atari VCS” console. Aimed primarily at retro games, the $199 and up device has an AMD A1 CPU and an optional joystick and controller. Attempts to establish Linux as a gaming platform have failed time and time again, with Valve’s SteamOS being the latest high-profile casualty.

As I described in my last article, when I'm using a Linux-based computer to listen to music, I pass that music through a dedicated digital-analog converter, or DAC.

A colleague recently told me about one of his favorite utilities, PDFtk. Among other things, it lets you merge, split, and burst PDF documents, with or without encryption. You can learn more about it in this Opensource.com article.

Boxes is the GNOME application for running virtual machines. Recently Boxes added a new feature that makes it easier to run different Linux distributions. You can now automatically install these distros in Boxes, as well as operating systems like FreeBSD and FreeDOS. The list even includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Fragmentation has been a big problem for IoT since the beginning. Companies were doing their own workarounds, there were no standardizations, and there was no collaborative platform that everyone could work on together. Various open source projects are working to solve this problem...

Red Hat's strategic planning isn't like yours, but with 64 straight quarters of revenue growth and continuing on course to become the first billion-dollar-a-quarter open-source company, the Linux and cloud power is clearly on to something.

News briefs for May 31, 2018.

Learning the vi text editor takes some effort, but experienced vi users know that after a while, using basic commands becomes second nature. It's a form of what is known as muscle memory, which in this case might well be called finger memory. read more

Although software engineers regularly use the command line for many aspects of development, arrays are likely one of the more obscure features of the command line (although not as obscure as the regex operator =~). But obscurity and questionable syntax aside, Bash arrays can be very powerful. read more

SHOUTcast is a free, open source and cross-platform software application that can be used to stream media over the Internet. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install SHOUTcast media server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

Attempts to establish Linux as a gaming platform have failed time and time again, with Valve’s SteamOS being the latest high-profile casualty. Yet, Linux has emerged as a significant platform in the much smaller niche of retro gaming, especially on the Raspberry Pi. Atari has now re-emerged from the fog of gaming history with an Ubuntu-based Atari VCS gaming and media streaming console aimed at retro gamers.

Looking for a command line utility to sort content in text files? Look no further than Sort, a tool specifically built for this purpose. In this tutorial, we will discuss this command using some easy to understand examples.

Tesla is still a long way from fully releasing its cars' full open-source programs and Linux operating system code, but it's on its way.

News briefs for May 30, 2018.