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Good news, everyone! Er, someone. Anyone? Bueller? Linux kernel 6.2 should contain fixes for some problems handling floppy disks, a move which shows that someone somewhere is still using them.…

Chromebooks offer fantastic features, such as touchscreens, fast processors, and decent storage, allowing you all the tools you need to knock out your work. And, you'll have some fun doing so.

Since the massive rise of mobile devices, smartphones, and tablets like the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerries, etc. you might have considered creating a mobile version of your website. This tutorial explains how to configure Apache to serve the mobile version of your website if the visitor uses a mobile device and the standard version if the visitor uses a normal desktop PC. This can be achieved with Apache's rewrite module.

CentOS tossed out AlmaLinux, a somewhat popular free Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), received a vote of confidence on Thursday from the European and American science communities.…

Don't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly Opinion Linus Torvalds is happy to tell you that Linux release numbers aren't a big deal.…

In 2022, the Linux Foundation, in collaboration with our community, engaged in new initiatives to secure the software supply chain, enabled innovations with social, economic, regional, and environmental impact, supported open industry standards, and continued to embrace diversity and inclusivity.  Read the report today.

I joined the Firefox privacy and security team in 2016. For years, the privacy engineers here at Mozilla have known that online trackers use every identifier they can get to track and re-identify people all over the internet. Over the last six years, I’ve been able to contribute to Private Browsing, Tracking Protection, Containers, Monitor, […]

I tend to enjoy lightweight applications. They're good for low spec computers, for remote shells, for the impatient user (OK, I admit, that's me), and for the systems we scrap together to fight the inevitable zombie apocalypse. In my search for a perfect blend of a lightweight application with all the modern conveniences we've learned from experience, I stumbled across a file manager called nnn.

Documentation is important for so many reasons. Readable documentation is even more so. In the world of open source software, documentation is how to use or contribute to an application. It's like the rulebook for a game. 

A debugger is software that runs your code and examines any problems it finds. GNU Debugger (GBD) is one of the most popular debuggers, and in this article, I examine GDB's step command and related commands for several common use cases.

OpenMRS stands for "Open Medical Record System", is a free, open-source, and efficient electronic medical record (EMR) storage and retrieval system. In this post, we will show you how to install OpenMRS on Debian 11.

InfluxDB is an open-source time series database written in Go. It is a high-performance time series platform with purpose-built to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data. In this tutorial, you will install the influxdb open-source time series database and Telegraf on a Rocky Linux 9 server.

Latest offshoot of Illumos project continues development of FOSS version of Solaris. The OpenIndiana project has opened the gates on "Hipster", its latest release and the first this year, and it includes MATE 1.26, LibreOffice, and more.…

Computers are like filing cabinets, full of virtual folders and files waiting to be referenced, cross-referenced, edited, updated, saved, copied, moved, renamed, and organized. In this series, I'm taking a look at the Enlightenment file manager for your Linux system.

Kickstarter recently featured the Arduboy Mini which is an 8-bit video game console based on the Arduino platform. The tiny console includes more than 300 games and it can also be used to learn to code games using the tutorials from the Arduboy Community. As other Arduboy models released in the past (i.e. Arduboy FX), […]

n 2022, you have a wide variety of local development environments to choose from, whether you're a designer, developer, tester, or any kind of open source contributor. Because most of the tools and platforms contributors use happen to run on many different operating systems, you probably even have the choice of constructing your own environment. I'm the maintainer of DDEV, and here are 15 reasons I think you'll like it for your development environment.

New python3 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

Jenkins is an open-source automation tool for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). is entirely written in Java with the support of more than 1000 plugins for building, deploying, and automating your project.

In this article, I'm taking a look at the Worker file manager for your Linux system.

Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server that allows you to stream content that can be accessed from anywhere. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Jellyfin Media Server using Docker on a Rocky Linux 9 server.